Peer Support Post Secondary- Part Time Permanent

5 months ago

Whitby, Canada Ontario Shores Centre for MHS Full time

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
- Inspires hope and belief in others that recovery is possible
- Participates as a member of a multi-disciplinary team and recovery champion
- Provides formalized support and practical assistance to service users in order for them to regain control over their lives and their recovery journey
- Establishes a relationship of mutuality and information sharing to promote choice, self-determination, and opportunities for the fulfillment of socially valued roles and connection within the local community
- Provides expertise gained via lived experience related to recovery process for service users living with a severe and persistent mental illness

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Minimizes risks adhering to Ontario Shores’ Policies and Procedures identifying, assessing, evaluation, and controlling risks ensuring well-being of staff and service users
- Responsible to recognize and report service user, staff, and environment safety issues, identify and implement preventative and corrective actions, within the scope of this role
- Complies with the organization’s vision, fundamentals, policies and procedures
- Performs other tasks as assigned by management

**Requirements**:

- Post-secondary education in a related area of study (i.e. mental health, social sciences or human services) and a minimum of three years related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Personal lived-experience with Mental Health (required)
- Recent post secondary lived experience (within 5 years)
- Ontario Peer Development Initiative (OPDI) Level 1preferred
- Current CPR certification
- Valid Ontario Driver’s License
- Group Facilitation skills preferred
- WRAP, ASIST certification preferred
- Sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act, Health Care Consent Act, social service benefits and related legislation in Ontario
- Knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook), as well as the internet.
- Demonstrated knowledge of mental health system
- Knowledge of community resources/services and local networking
- Knowledge of research methods and program evaluation
- Strong, experiential knowledge of recovery from mental illness
- High level of self-awareness
- ability to critically appraise own performance
- Willingness to support people with a range of needs to meet their recovery goals

**Skills**:
Ability and/ or willingness to:

- Share personal story of recovery in a professional manner
- Assist people to develop recovery plans
- Ability to conduct co-design events with students to best understand their unique needs.
- Ability to develop curriculum and to present to a group of students
- Reflect on work practice and be open to constructive feedback
- Work in an enabling, flexible and creative way
- Manage stress and to plan and prioritize workload
- Maintain a healthy home/work life balance
- To work independently and interdependently within a multidisciplinary team
- Have strong interpersonal skills
- Perform physical aspects of the position and to maintain regular attendance
- Have excellent communication (written, verbal and documentation) skills
- Work a variable work schedule, including evenings and weekends
- Various Assignments Within This Role:_
- Recovery College Peer Specialist:_
- Conduct interviews and recovery assessments with prospective students within the recovery college to identify independent learning goals.
- Manage student appointments independently and connect with student referrals.
- Act as a tutor to prospective students in assisting in course selection, recovery college program navigation and other identified learning activities.
- Develop learning objectives and deliver course content within the recovery college.
- Communicate and collaborate with the college registrar and Recovery College Leader to ensure timely response to filled courses, attendance issues, resource requests, student safety concerns, etc.
- Assist with program evaluation duties as required.
- Transitional Discharge Peer Specialist:_
- Identification of service users requiring transitional discharge support
- Manage caseload of service users being discharged back into the community.
- Meet with and assess recovery-oriented and community re-integration needs of service users awaiting discharge.
- Engage with service users prior to discharge, during discharge transition and up to six-week post-discharge from inpatient stay within the hospital.
- Provide emotional and practical support to service users throughout discharge transition in order to assist them in realizing their recovery and community re-integration goals.
- Assist service users in identifying and leveraging both internal and external resources in order to establish meaningful roles and connections within the mental healthcare system and the community.
- Communicate and collaborate with other members of the treatment team to provide comprehensive care designed to enhance the experience and individual recover

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