Full Time Peer Support Specialist

SOAR Community Services; Brantford; On-site; CAD 28,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Travel insurance

Job summary

SOAR Community Services in Brantford, ON is seeking a Peer Support Specialist to assist individuals aged 16+ facing substance use and mental health challenges within Withdrawal Management and Treatment Services. You will draw on your lived recovery experience to build connections and support engagement in the program.

You will lead peer-led groups, collaborate with staff, and help clients set realistic recovery goals while maintaining professional boundaries and contributing to broader peer

Qualifications

• College diploma or certificate in any field.
• Experience sharing lived recovery experiences is valued.
• Ability to build rapport with clients and staff.

Responsibilities

• Build supportive relationships with clients using your lived recovery experience.
• Offer connection, encouragement and hope to individuals navigating substance use and mental health challenges.
• Share recovery insights and coping strategies to foster hope.
• Facilitate peer-led groups.
• Support clients in identifying personal goals and steps toward recovery and independence.
• Collaborate with staff while bringing a peer perspective to the interdisciplinary team.
• Maintain professional boundaries and participate in peer initiatives.

Skills

Lived experience recovery

Strong communication

Relationship-building

Microsoft Office

Electronic databases

Public speaking facilitation

Team collaboration

Driver's license

Trauma awareness

Education

College diploma or certificate

Tools

Microsoft Office

Electronic databases

Job description

Vacant Position

Type: Full-Time

Location: Brantford, ON

Salary: Starting at $24.25 per hour.

Positions: 1

Posted: August 20, 2026

Expires: August 31, 2026

Hours of Work: Full Time – Sunday-Thursday 2:30pm-10:00pm.

Duties

We are recruiting for a Peer Support Specialist. This role is a vital part of our Withdrawal Management and Treatment Services program. As a Peer Support Specialist, you will be supporting individuals aged 16+ experiencing substance use and concurrent mental health challenges by drawing on your own lived or living experience of recovery. Peer Support Specialists are not counsellors. Their role is grounded in shared lived experience — building connection, offering encouragement, and helping others feel hopeful about recovery. This position is based within our Withdrawal Management and Treatment programs, where you will support clients as they begin their recovery journey by fostering connection, comfort, and engagement within the program. Peer Support Specialists also collaborate with peers across the agency and participate in SOAR’s broader peer support initiatives, contributing to the development and growth of peer programming across services.

What You’ll Do

• Build supportive relationships with clients by drawing on and appropriately sharing your lived or living experience of recovery
• Offer connection, encouragement, and hope to individuals navigating substance use and concurrent mental health challenges
• Share recovery insights and coping strategies to encourage hope and connection
• Facilitate peer-led groups
• Support clients in identifying personal goals and steps toward recovery and independence
• Work collaboratively with staff while bringing a peer perspective to theinterdisciplinary team
• Maintain professional boundaries within the peer role and participate in agency-wide peer initiatives

Qualifications

What You’ll Bring

• Comfort identifying as a person with lived or living experience of substanceuse and/or mental health recovery and using that experience in a peer support role
• Ability to act as a positive recovery role model while respecting the individual paths of others
• Understanding peer support principles
• College diploma or certificate in any field
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills
• Comfort facilitating conversations and peer-led groups
• Experience with Microsoft Office and electronic databases
• Full G level drivers license
• Ability to work in environments where exposure to direct and vicarious trauma may occur

Eligibility

• Eligible to work in Canada
• Vacant Position

Benefits

• Salary: Starting at $24.25 per hour.
• Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and travel insurance, with options fully paid for Full Time staff.
• Time off: 3 weeks’ vacation, 60 hours of personal leave, and 15 hours of wellness time (pro-rated first year).
• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) for staff and their families.
• RSP/TFSA matching for eligible staff.
• A supportive, values-driven workplace that prioritizes your well-being.

Our Commitment to Job Seekers

SOAR Community Services is committed to implementing the Calls to Action framed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. We acknowledge that we live and work on the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit and traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wyandot, the Haudenosaunee, and some of the Ojibwa Nation. The territory is mutually covered by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant. We are grateful to have the opportunity to work in this community, on this territory. We also acknowledge that the settler population has been able to benefit from this beautiful land. We are all treaty members and will strive to act in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and center their voices.

SOAR Community Services is committed to advancing equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging within our workplace and across the communities we serve. We welcome applications from individuals with lived and living experience and from members of equity-deserving groups, including Indigenous, Black, and racialized communities, 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, and persons with disabilities. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals. If you require accommodations as part of the hiring process, please let us know so that we may arrange for their provision

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