Ich Peer Engagement Support Worker

2 months ago


Kingston, Canada Addiction & Mental Health Services - KFLA Full time

**Position**:Integrated Care Hub Peer Engagement
Support Worker

**Competition Number**:2024-127***

**Hours of Work**:up to 37.5 per week - 24/7 rotating
shifts

**Reports to**: Program Manager,
ICH***

**Vacancies**:Seven (7 FTE equivalent) **Hourly Rate**:Pay Band 4
$ 25.45 - $ 28.67

**Job Status**:Temporary Full Time, Part Time and
Casul opportunities available
(6 months)

**Union/Non-Union**:OPSEU/SEFPO Local 489***

**Location**:Kingston***

**Job Summary**:
The Integrated Care Hub (ICH) Peer Engagement Support Worker as a member of an interprofessional and integrated
service team. This position provides services to individuals 18 years of age and older who use substances and/or have a
serious mental illness and access services at the Integrated Care Hub.

The Peer Engagement Support Worker plays a key role in connecting clients to essential services, focusing on harm
reduction, health and wellness, and support. This role involves actively engaging clients, identifying health and service
needs, supporting harm reduction practices, and ensuring safe, respectful environments within AMHS settings. As a
peer-based role, lived experience is an asset in building trusting relationships and promoting client-centered care.

harm reduction culture in their work. All services are provided in accordance with the mission, vision, values, and
established policies and protocols of the Agency.

**NOTE**:These new positions are the result of a structural change within the ICH program, a job description for this new
position is attached for reference. As such, external applicants from those currently employed with Trellis
HIV/Community Care in the role of ICH Harm Reduction Worker will be considered qualified for the purposes of this
posting. Further, those applicants who are currently employed with Trellis HIV/Community Care at the Integrated Care
Hub will be considered after internal qualified applicants from the bargaining unit but prior to all other external
applicants.

**Minimum Qualifications: -**
Relevant post-secondary education including a college diploma in a health care or social service discipline
- One-year relevant experience providing services to individuals who use substances, live with a serious mental illness

and/or are homeless
- Lived experience with addiction and/or serious mental health illness, either personally or through a close family

member preferred.
- Certification in First Aid and CPR an asset.
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) and Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (NVCI) an asset
- Experience working within a case management model, an asset
- French Language proficiency, written and verbal, an asset

**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: -**

and/or live with a serious mental illness, within a harm reduction and client-centered approach
- Ability to work under pressure within a fast-paced environment
- A valid Ontario Driver’s License and have regular access to a reliable vehicle and provide proof of $2,000,000 vehicle

insurance. Incumbent may be required to transport clients.
- Required to provide a satisfactory criminal reference check (CRC) with Vulnerable Sector Screening prior to hire.
- contribute to the diversity of our community and enhance our ability to provide quality services to our clients.- We are committed to accessible employment practices. If you require an accommodation to fully participate in the _
- recruitment and selection process, please inform Human Resources to discuss your individual accessibility needs._
- Please submit a resume and cover letter as one document only quoting_**_ Competition Number 2024-127 _



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