Peer Support Worker XaaydaGa Dlaang Society - Skidegate Health Centre

Indigenous Perspectives Society; Skidegate; On-site; CAD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended health care

Wellness and Cultural days

Pension Plan

Paid time off (winter closure)

Job summary

XaaydaGa Dlaang Society (Skidegate Health Centre) seeks a Peer Support Worker to provide culturally grounded, trauma-informed, and relationship-based support within our Health Centre team.

You will engage in outreach, connect clients with services, and bring lived experience perspectives to programs and community planning while promoting holistic wellness across generations in Skidegate and surrounding communities.

Qualifications

• Experience in peer support, community outreach, mental health, substance use, wellness, or other community-based services.
• Relevant peer support training, certification, or equivalent combination of training and experience in mental health, substance use, harm reduction, trauma-informed practice, or crisis intervention.
• Experience working with Indigenous communities and/or culturally grounded community services.
• Satisfactory Criminal Record Check with Vulnerable Sector screening.

Responsibilities

• Build trusting, respectful, and non-judgmental relationships with individuals facing mental health or substance-use challenges.
• Provide culturally grounded, one-on-one peer support and practical assistance.
• Support individuals in distress and connect them with clinical, cultural, health, and community resources.
• Assist individuals in navigating health and social service systems, including appointment accompaniment.

Skills

Peer support

Community outreach

Mental health

Substance use

Wellness programs

Trauma-informed practice

Job description

XaaydaGa Dlaang Society, also known as Skidegate Health Centre, supports the health and well-being of our community through holistic care grounded in Haida culture, values, and ways of knowing. We honour Haida language, teachings, and traditional knowledge while integrating Western health-care practices to provide culturally grounded and responsive health and wellness services for children, youth, adults, families, and Elders.

We provide a range of health and wellness services, including primary care, public health, health promotion, traditional healing, and mental wellness supports. Our programs and services support children, youth, adults, families, and Elders in Skidegate and surrounding communities, while recognizing the strengths, knowledge, and needs of the people we serve.

Position Summary

The Peer Support Worker uses their lived experience of mental health and/or substance use to provide culturally grounded, trauma-informed, and relationship-based support to community members.

Working as part of the Health Centre team, the Peer Support Worker provides outreach, connection, and support in accessing services while bringing lived experience perspectives to programs, community planning, and the ongoing improvement of health and wellness services.

Key Responsibilities

• Build trusting, respectful, and non-judgmental relationships with individuals experiencing mental health and/or substance-use challenges.
• Provide culturally grounded, one-on-one peer support, outreach, encouragement, and practical assistance.
• Support individuals experiencing distress or crisis and connect them with appropriate clinical, cultural, health, and community resources.
• Assist individuals in navigating health and social service systems, including accompaniment to appointments as appropriate.
• Use lived and living experience purposefully to build connection, reduce stigma, encourage help seeking, and support individual wellness.
• Promote harm-reduction, trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, and culturally safe approaches to care.
• Advocate for individuals and help address barriers to accessing appropriate services and supports.
• Collaborate with the Health Centre team and community partners to provide coordinated, holistic support.
• Contribute lived experience perspectives to community engagement, program planning, service development, and evaluation.
• Participate in team meetings, debriefs, supervision, training, and professional development.
• Maintain appropriate documentation, confidentiality, privacy, and professional boundaries.
• Ability to work in alignment with Haida values, including:
  • Yahguudang (Respect).
  • Ad Kyaanang Tlaagang (Ask First).
  • Tllyahda (Make it Right).
  • Gina 'waadluxan gud ad kwagid (Everything Depends on Everything Else).
• Perform other related duties as required.

Qualifications

• Experience in peer support, community outreach, mental health, substance use, wellness, or other community-based services.
• Relevant peer support training, certification, or an equivalent combination of training and experience in areas such as mental health, substance use, harm reduction, trauma-informed practice, or crisis intervention.
• Experience working with Indigenous communities and/or culturally grounded community services.
• Valid Class 5 BC Driver's License would be an asset, but not required.
• Satisfactory Criminal Record Check with Vulnerable Sector screening. Any findings will be reviewed and assessed on a case-by-case basis in relation to the requirements of the position.

Benefit Package

• Extended health care (Dental, Vision, LTD, Life, and HSA) - 100% Employer Paid.
• Wellness and Cultural days.
• Pension Plan.
• Paid time off, including an additional 2-week office closure during the winter break.
• Work on reserve, tax exempt income for status employees.