Peer Support Worker

2 months ago

Greater Sudbury, Canada NISANorthern Initiative for Social Action Full time

**EMPLOYMENT PACKAGE**:
Please find enclosed the job description and submission requirements for the position of **Peer Support Worker**

Requirements for submission:

- **Applicant’s Resume & Cover Letter**
- *Ensure that your cover letter includes a statement of interest and speaks to your suitability for the role. Also include whether or not you identify as a person with lived experience according to the below definition. _

**How to apply**:
Send your resume and cover letter to Catherine Savarie (Programs Manager) via:
**In person: 36 Elgin St. 2nd floor, Sudbury, ON P3C 5B4**

Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
- **INTERNAL/EXTERNAL COMPETITION - DEADLINE **_**October 7th, 2024 at midnight.**_

NISA is committed to employment equity and diversity within its organization, and we strongly encourage individuals from equity seeking groups to apply.

**Current Vacancy**:

- **HSN Emergency Department.**_

Remuneration

Hours

Hours of Operation

21.68/hr

22.5-30/week

7am to 9pm,

**Peer Support Worker Job Description**

NISA is a peer-led organization tasked with providing mental health recovery services in Sudbury, Ontario. All staff self-identify as having had some lived experience of mental health challenges and are dedicated to making a difference in the lives of their peers. We’ve been operating in Sudbury since 1998 with the motto _Being, Belonging, Becoming_. In our programs, peers can **be** who they are without judgement or discrimination; they take part in a community of peers in a space where they **belong**; and our aim is to foster recovery and personal growth so that individuals can define and **become** who they want to be. We acknowledge the value and expertise that comes from personal lived experiences, and stive to provide a space free of discrimination, stigma, and exclusion in all forms.

Our Leadership Team focuses on supporting NISA’s core values and culture, as well as accountability, dedication to ensuring quality services, providing supportive supervision, and advocating for peer voices in the mental health sector. Specifically, supportive supervision is based on mutual respect, strength-based, commitment to ongoing learning, self-awareness, integrity, effective communication, trusting relationships/transparency, autonomy with accountability, and personal growth.

The Peer Support Worker is responsible for delivering peer support and recovery services to NISA members. The Peer Support Worker will provide one-to-one support, as well as prepare and deliver group-based programming at our brick-and-mortar location, in the larger community, or at partnering organizations like HSN or CMHA. As the front-line of NISA, peer workers are also responsible for acting in accordance with the core values of peer support, of modelling recovery oriented and trauma informed practices, and for reenforcing the code of conduct among NISA membership.

**Work Responsibilities**:

- Provide one-to-one assistance and support to members at NISA using a recovery-oriented, strengths-based approach.
- Prepare and facilitate various structured and unstructured mental health groups.
- Help the Program Manager in creating monthly programming calendars.
- Assist members in identifying their personal recovery goals and setting objectives to reach those goals.
- Recognize and respect recovery-based philosophy including individual’s right to self-determination and autonomy.
- Recruit member volunteers for programs as needed.
- Assist with and participate in monthly membership meeting.
- Meet with potential members and help integrate them into the organization.
- Provide referral to appropriate services within the community.
- Help members or peers navigate within the services where our workers are embedded.
- Assist members in accessing and obtaining other community resources where needed.
- Advocate with and for members to ensure adequate resources are available.
- Ensure members have awareness and understanding of rights relating to services.
- Ensure individuals’ contacts are recorded appropriately and in a timely manner utilizing database program.
- Ensure that monthly, annual and other required reporting documentation are completed.
- Provide assistance to Programs Manager with community networking and additional outreach or educational tasks.
- Participate in regularly scheduled meetings with the Program Manager.
- Promote NISA’s mission, vision and values to the membership and to the community.
- Maintain confidentiality of information and documents relevant to NISA members, personnel, and volunteers.
- Direct the daily maintenance of the space, and encourage members to take ownership and help maintain the space.
- Represent NISA in a professional manner at all times.
- Be prepared and ready to work for scheduled shifts.
- Must be willing to work in person; this is not a virtual or hybrid position.

**Professional Development**:

- Pursuing training and skills development that

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