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AVI Health and Community Services is seeking a highly motivated and compassionate Peer Support Specialist to join our Harm Reduction team. As a Peer Support Specialist, you will play a vital role in building and maintaining relationships with program participants, providing peer support, and promoting harm reduction practices.
Key Responsibilities- Work collaboratively with the team to identify potential participants and provide information regarding access to pharmaceutical alternatives to street drugs.
- Provide peer support in various settings, including on-site program spaces, parks, encampments, shelters, supported housing units, and drop-in centers.
- Distribute safer drug use supplies, safer sex supplies, and naloxone kits, and provide information and training about their use.
- Assist with post-dose monitoring for RAD program participants, assess for overdose symptoms, and respond with rescue breathing and naloxone when necessary.
- Maintain the safety of all program spaces by following protocols related to violence prevention and critical incidents.
- Provide harm reduction information and referrals for other health and social services.
- Connect regularly with program participants to offer peer support through active listening skills and a non-judgmental attitude.
- Liaise between participants, systems navigators, nurses, and physicians to support participants to be heard and assist with keeping communication open and accessible.
- Identify and develop safety plans with people who are using substances who are at increased risk of overdose.
- Contribute to a positive, respectful environment at the program space and act as an AVI ambassador in the community.
- Attend regularly scheduled team meetings and individual supervision meetings.
- Keep records and participate in team charting to assure comprehensive documentation.
- Minimum two years' experience working within harm reduction settings.
- Have lived/living experience with drug use and related health and social barriers.
- Valid Class 5 BC Driver's License.
- First Aid training and experience responding to critical incidents and overdose, including administration of Naloxone.
- Have a current knowledge of the local drug trends and can relate as a peer with program participants.
- Direct service delivery experience in the community social services sector with a demonstrated working knowledge of community-based programs and related provincial and community support services systems.
- Interest in learning and eager to share information with peers with a non-judgmental attitude.
- Demonstrated understanding of the importance and role of people who use drugs in the development, delivery, and evaluation of services intended to benefit them.
- Working understanding of the importance of confidentiality and boundaries.
- Working knowledge in the areas of harm reduction, safer drug use, OAT, safer sex, sex work, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, mental health, etc.
- Commitment to honor Indigenous communities and ways of knowing, and approach learning about the ongoing impacts of colonial violence with humility.
- Demonstrated understanding and commitment to harm reduction principles and practices.
- A competitive hourly rate of $31.56/hour to start, with stepped increases based on seniority with AVI.
- A casual position with potential shifts falling Monday to Sunday between 09:00 am to 05:00 pm.
- The opportunity to work in a dynamic and supportive team environment.
- A commitment to equity and diversity, and a strong desire to work with Indigenous communities and individuals.
