Peer Support Worker | MHSU Youth ICM

Interior Health Authority; Trail; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare organization in Canada is seeking a Peer Support Worker II to join the Mental Health Substance Use team in Trail, B.C. This relief full-time position emphasizes collaboration, peer support, and community resources to help clients achieve their mental health and substance use recovery goals. The ideal candidate has lived experience, relevant training, and a commitment to promoting dignity and self-determination in vulnerable populations. Competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits are offered, with a focus on growth and development.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Employer paid training/education

Employer paid vacation

Extended Health & Dental coverage

Contribution to Municipal Pension Plan

Balanced lifestyle

Qualifications

• Lived experience of mental health and/or substance use recovery.
• Ability to use lived experience purposefully and professionally.
• Commitment to fostering hope, self-determination, and dignity.

Responsibilities

• Assist clients identify and meet their goals using peer support.
• Collaborate with clients and MHSU team to determine care plan.
• Provide supportive counselling, case management, and advocacy.

Skills

Peer support training

Strong communication skills

Advocacy skills

Understanding of harm reduction

Trauma-informed care

Compassion and resourcefulness

Job description

We have an exciting relief full-time opportunity for a Peer Support Worker II to join the Mental Health Substance Use (MHSU) Youth Intensive Case Management (ICM) team located at the Kiro Wellness Centre in Trail, B.C. This relief position is until April 1, 2026 or return of the incumbent.

Interior Health and our partner agencies provide a range of mental health and substance use services for all ages. We strive to ensure that our services are welcoming of all peoples, gender identities, cultures, ethnicities and backgrounds.

Who Are We Looking For

The successful applicant will bring both lived experience of mental health and/or substance use recovery and the ability to use that experience in a purposeful, professional, and supportive way. The ideal candidate has peer support training, strong communication and advocacy skills, and the ability to engage respectfully with clients facing complex and sometimes crisis-driven challenges. The PSW should be compassionate, resourceful, and resilient, with a strong understanding of harm reduction, trauma-informed care, and community resources and will demonstrate professionalism, self-awareness, and the capacity to maintain boundaries while offering authentic peer-based support. Most importantly, the PSW must be committed to fostering hope, self-determination, and dignity in every interaction.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and an attractive remuneration package
• Career Growth
• Employer paid training/education
• Employer paid vacation (per collective agreement)
• Employer paid insurance premiums
• Extended Health & Dental coverage
• Contribution to Municipal Pension Plan
• Balanced lifestyle

What will you work on?

The Peer Support Worker (PSW) utilizes their own lived experience of substance use and/or mental health, experience enacting their own wellness plan, and knowledge of accessing healthcare, services and supports combined with peer support training and skills to assist MHSU clients to identify and meet their goals. The PSW identifies themselves as a Peer and collaborates with the client and the MHSU team to meet individual needs and situational requirements by determining aspects of the care plan, identifying, developing and implementing programming to meet the client’s goals, assessing progress and adapting or changing the plan as needed. The PSW coaches the client to strengthen and apply self-determination in all aspects of their care plan and in cases where the client can’t express their needs, the PSW is responsible to advocate on their behalf from a lens of lived experience. The PSW provides supportive counselling, wellness planning, case management, formal advocacy, life skills assistance, information, resources, and demonstrations.

The PSW has autonomy to determine aspects of the care plan with the client and works in collaboration with the MHSU team and relevant community partners so that the client’s self-identified goals for recovery and community integration are supported by appropriate services and practices, and are consistent with the values of self-determination, choice and harm reduction. Services are provided in a variety of environments dependent on the needs of the client.

Scheduling Information

Shift types are from 08:30 to 16:30 hours. Days of work are Monday to Friday.

How will you create an impact?

Joining our IH team will allow you to challenge yourself professionally while enjoying all the personal pursuits available to you within this fantastic community.

Reasons to Apply at Interior Health... What we can do for you

We offer a work environment conducive to growth and development of strong skills and a work environment that supports and promotes psychological health & safety for all. We offer the opportunity to have a balanced lifestyle that allows you to maintain the quality of life you desire.

If this opportunity is aligned with your experience, training and passion for mental health, apply today!