Youth Peer Support Worker – Virtual Care

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About the role

  • 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
  • Criminal record check may be required
  • Testing may be required

Benefits

  • Unionized position under Community HEU
  • Regular part-time schedule
  • Rotating days off

Job title

Job type

Part Time

Experience level

Junior

Salary

CA$30 - CA$32 per hour

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Location requirements

HybridVancouverCanada

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