Peer Support Worker, Assertive Community Treatment Program (ACT) - Mental Health

Are you looking for that job that will allow you to help people while demonstrating excellent organization and communication skills? Do you take responsibility for your own performance and aim to model integrity, resilience and confidence? If you have answered yes, we want you to keep reading to discover our Relief Part Time Peer Support Worker, Assertive Community Treatment Program (ACT) - Mental Health opportunity. In this role, you will join our Mental Health and Substance Use Services team located in Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows, B.C. areas!

What We're Looking For: 

• Qualifications: Lived experience of mental illness.

  Grade 12 Completion of recognized peer support worker training program and a Food Safe Certificate.

• Experience: At one (1) year of recent related work experience with an emphasis on mental health, addictions, homelessness and/or social services, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience will also be considered.
• Additional Requirements: Valid Class 5 BC Driver's License with access to personal vehicle for business purposes. 

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In accordance with established vision and values of the organization, the Peer Support Worker (PSW) shares their own consumer knowledge and lived experience of mental illness/substance use to assist Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) clients to live successfully in the community. The PSW collaborates with the client and the ACT team to meet individual needs and situational requirements. The PSW provides clients with information from a lived experience perspective in order to assist clients in effectively obtaining service from other ACT team staff, external service providers and community resources. They provide a variety of supports to assist clients living with mental illness/substance use such as emotional and social supports, life skills assistance, information, resources, and demonstrations.

The PSW works in collaboration with the ACT team so that the client's self identified goals for recovery and community integration are supported by appropriate services and practices, are consistent with the values of self-determination /choice and harm reduction. Services are provided in any environment including: the streets, shelters, hospitals, apartments, office.

Lived experience of mental illness.

Grade 12 Completion of recognized peer support worker training program.

One year recent related work experience with an emphasis on mental health, addictions, homelessness and/or social services.

Food Safe Certificate.

Current valid Class Five BC Driver's License and access to personal vehicle with appropriate insurance coverage.

• Ability to engage clients.
• Ability to establish and maintain rapport with clients and their families.
• Ability to work with a culturally diverse population.
• Knowledge of available programs.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to organize and prioritize.
• Ability to analyze and problem solve.
• Ability to model, instruct and teach life skills.
• Ability to observe and recognize changes in clients.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to use effective interpersonal skills to establish/maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, the public and other agencies. 
• Ability to promote positive change and independence.
• Conflict resolution and crisis intervention skills.
• Physical and mental ability to carry out the duties of the position.
• Ability to operate related equipment.

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

Together, we are the heart of health care.

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