Youth Peer Support Worker delivering virtual mental-health and substance-use services through Foundry Virtual Care. Facilitating recovery groups, coaching clients, and connecting youth with community resources.
Responsibilities
Provide online, non-clinical peer support to youth and young adults with mental health and substance use issues
Provide individual peer support, facilitate peer-based recovery groups, and conduct peer information sessions
Promote empowerment, self-determination, independence, self-care, recovery, and wellness through peer mentorship and emotional support
Support skill building, community integration, natural supports, problem-solving, goal setting, decision-making, and self-advocacy
Assist service users in navigating community-based services and accessing health, social, financial, recreational, employment, and educational resources
Arrange and deliver discussion forums, wellness activity groups, client information sessions, and support groups
Work with interprofessional team members to meet established goals and facilitate recovery-based peer support activities
Observe and report unsafe conditions and behavioural, physical, or cognitive changes to clinical personnel
Review, collect, and compile resources to support online peer support delivery
Contribute lived experience and observations to the development of Foundry Virtual Clinic documents, materials, proposals, and services
Complete records and documentation, including statistics, progress reports, activity plans, and client activity profiles
Promote Foundry Virtual Care peer support services to clients, the public, and healthcare professionals
Participate in team meetings, case conferences, clinical meetings, organizational initiatives, evaluation, quality improvement, and research activities
Requirements
Certificate in Community Social Service plus one year's recent, related experience working with youth and young adults with mental health and substance use issues, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience
Lived experience with mental illness and/or substance use and recovery
Recipient of mental health and substance use services
Completion of or eligibility for completion of a recognized peer support training program
Knowledge of youth mental health and substance use resources and youth community services
Knowledge of harm reduction principles and activities
Knowledge of recovery principles and willingness to share a personal recovery journey
Computer skills, including technology-based solutions for service delivery, documentation, and viewing screening and assessment data
Crisis intervention and conflict resolution skills
Ability to work with diverse and marginalized populations using anti-oppressive and trauma-informed approaches
Ability to develop, organize, coordinate, deliver, and evaluate individual and group activities
Ability to establish rapport and communicate effectively verbally and in writing
Ability to work independently and cooperatively with others
Ability to organize, prioritize, analyze, and resolve problems
Ability to operate related equipment and carry out the physical duties of the position
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