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About the Role

The London HART Hub is a low barrier recovery-oriented space supporting individuals experiencing homelessness with mental health and addiction needs. It connects clients to a continuum of care, including housing, basic needs, healthcare, peer support, employment, and mental health services. The Addiction and Mental Health Worker, Peer Support Worker uses lived experience to support individuals in their recovery journeys through community inclusion, service engagement, and wellness promotion.

Responsibilities

Perform duties and responsibilities consistent with psychosocial rehabilitation, recovery-oriented practice, and evidence-based peer support.
Lend expertise, including lived experience, to support individuals in their recovery journeys.
Support individuals in community inclusion, service engagement, and wellness promotion.
Provide individualized one-to-one support and group facilitation.
Share personal path to wellness and knowledge of services and resources to support participants' resilience.
Model effective coping techniques and positive self-help strategies based on recovery and wellness principles.
Facilitate a strengths-based approach to care emphasizing safety, respect, hope, self-determination, and empowerment.
Facilitate social/support/life skills groups based on identified needs.
Practice and model OPDI Core Essentials Training cornerstones: support, self-awareness, self-responsibility, and self-care.
Help foster peer-to-peer relationships, including support and friendships.
Support peers with relapse prevention, overdose prevention, etc.
Facilitate peers’ access to services and supports critical to promoting a successful transition to community.
Accompany peers on community outings to build confidence, promote social inclusion, and assist with navigating local resources.
Develop and facilitate relevant group programming.
Provide assistance with wellness planning to support peer’s achievement of goals for self-sufficiency and community inclusion.
Provide active, empathetic listening, with selective sharing to encourage, motivate, and support, keeping the focus on the peer’s experience.
Explore potential benefits of connecting with other communities and clinical options.
Encourage peer’s ideas and projects with sensitivity to their worldview and awareness of diversity.
Use critical thinking and problem-solving abilities in collaboration with the peer to co-create new ideas and possible actions.
Complete required documentation of each peer support interaction in the peer’s health record.
Report on the progress of peers through ongoing, effective communication with team members.
Maintain healthy boundaries within the supportive, collaborative peer working relationship.
Ensure compliance with CMHA Thames Valley Addiction & Mental Health Services policies and procedures.
Ensure compliance with CMHA Thames Valley Addiction & Mental Health Services Peer Support Program Values and Limits & Boundaries.
Keep up-to-date on peer support-related topics and evidence-based practices.

Requirements

Successful candidates must have a Police Vulnerable Sector Check (PVSC) completed within the last six months.
Secondary School diploma.
Lived experience of mental illness, and/or addictions, and/or homelessness.
Valid G class driver’s licence and access to a vehicle required for personal transportation.
Current, satisfactory Police Vulnerable Sector Check (PVSC).
Demonstrated ability to attend work regularly.

Skills

Peer support
Psychosocial rehabilitation
Recovery-oriented practice
Community inclusion
Service engagement
Wellness promotion
One-to-one support
Group facilitation
Strengths-based approach
Communication
Interpersonal skills
Critical thinking
Problem-solving
Active listening
Empathetic listening
Relapse prevention
Overdose prevention
First Aid
CPR
ASIST
Conflict diffusion

Location

London, Ontario (London Zone)

Work Type

Full-Time
Contract

Experience Level

Level 1 – Direct Service
Grid progression based on seniority up to Level 8

Education Level

Secondary School diploma

Salary/Compensations

Starting rate: $27.14 per hour (Level 1 – Direct Service)
Wage differential for regulation: $30.01 per hour (Level 1 – Direct Service, Regulated)
Non-regulated grid progression up to $34.41 per hour
Regulated grid progression up to $37.26 per hour
Premiums of $2.00 for eligible Evening/Night and Weekend Shifts

Benefits

9% in lieu of benefits
Immediate eligible for optional enrollment in the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP)

About the Company

Canadian Mental Health Association Thames Valley Addiction and Mental Health Services is the full business name.

Equal Opportunity

We welcome and encourage applications from all members of our community including persons of any gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation, persons with disabilities, Indigenous persons, and members of visible minorities.
If you require accommodations related to a disability at any point during the recruitment process, please contact Human.Resources@cmhatv.ca.