Peer Ambassador

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Stella's Place Assessment and Treatment Centre Full time

**Peer Ambassador**

Application Close Date: September 27, 2024

**Salary**: $37,000 per annum at 30 hours per week

Type of Employment: 18 month fixed-term contract

Stella’s Place provides mental health service for young adults (16-29 years). We utilize innovative clinical practices and processes that put young adults in the ‘driver’s seat’ of their own recovery plan. In this role, you will work as a member of our multidisciplinary team to facilitate and support participants with their recovery process. You will draw from your lived experience with mental health challenges and recovery to assist participants in setting goals for their own recovery. Your collaborative work with participants will be as a coach and liaison in assisting participants to advocate for themselves.

**We are specifically seeking to recruit a BIPOC peer for this role to support the co-facilitation of our BIPOC-specific programs.** This is an important aspect of our commitment to diversity and ensuring that our programs are inclusive and culturally responsive.

This position requires you to use self-disclosure of lived and living mental health experiences, positively and practically to support participants’ understanding of our program and services including the My Next Chapter training program. Peer Ambassadors are expected to actively engage with participants both in-person and through our online program delivery. This role is ideal for someone comfortable with co-facilitating workshops and training, demonstrating experience in this type of work.

In this role, you will actively engage with participants during Open Cafe hours, contribute to agency-wide events like fundraisers and social media posts including videos, and play a crucial part in fostering a workplace that embraces diversity and teamwork while complying with all applicable regulatory requirements.

As a Stella’s Place Peer Ambassador, you will be involved in both low-barrier and clinical programs. You will also assist in the development and delivery of programs and participate in facilitating internal co-designs that are a core component of Stella’s Place programming. Further, Peer Ambassadors are part of committees, support agency-wide events, research activities, support the organization with speaking engagements and activities, and build our organizational culture. Comfort with public speaking is an asset.

**KEY FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Programs and Services**
- Connect with and support Stella’s Place participants who are members of the public who visit our Cafe space each week
- Foster connections with participants via lived experience and through sharing your

understanding of both Stella’s Place programs and community resources
- Hold an understanding of service information and community resources that are reflective of

the diverse needs of the participants
- Support participants in understanding and connecting with other service providers and

programming at Stella’s Place
- Co-facilitate programs in a manner that centers the participants and maximizes their

well-being
- Work collaboratively with other Peer Ambassadors, the Access Manager, and Director of Program Operations in program development, with a key focus on program delivery
- Work collaboratively with the Senior Peer, Clinicians, and Access Counsellor Navigators in

delivering both Clinical and Access programming
- Contribute to outreach, research, and data collection for Stella’s Place programs
- Actively engage and support other Peer Ambassadors during team meetings where Peer

Ambassadors can share experiences, discuss challenges, raise ideas and brainstorm solutions

Participant Supports
- Participate in regular meetings with the Senior Peer, the Access Manager and the Director of Program Operations

**Documentation**
- Documentation of relevant participants' interaction following Stella’s Place policies, procedures and protocol
- Timely completion of participants' electronic health record (EHR) notes and data entry
- Accurate and timely completion of all administrative documentation including timesheets and

expenses
- Up-to-date and accurate recording of your daily activities in your electronic calendar

**Performance Management and Professional Developmen**t
- Participate cooperatively in Stella’s Place performance management system

process/system
- Participate in ongoing professional development and mandatory training
- Actively engage and participate in the supervisory meetings with your Manager

**Other Duties as Assigned**
- Attend and participate in team meetings, staff training and our All Staff meetings
- Participate in agency activities, e.g. committee work, special events, etc.
- Participate in quality improvement activities at the team/program level
- Ability to engage in programs and meetings with your camera on
- Participate in external committees as required
- Duties may change from time to time

**QUALIFICATIONS**
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