Trauma-Informed Community Health Peer Lead

GCHC; Guelph; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 39,000; Part time

Job summary

The Guelph Community Health Centre invites applications for a Peer Lead to support clients of the GCHC Integrated Programs. Working 30 hours per week, you will use your lived experience to build trust with peers and clients and help connect people to services addressing housing, health and wellbeing needs.

Reporting to the Supervisor, Allied Health, you will lead peer development, participate in advisory groups, and ensure trauma-informed, client-centered service delivery across our priority

Qualifications

• Lived experience with addiction, mental health challenges, or homelessness.
• Ability to support clients along the substance use continuum.
• Strong interpersonal and communication abilities.
• Capacity to build rapport with priority populations.
• Understanding of trauma-informed, client-centered care.

Responsibilities

• Deliver peer support functions to community members in a way that reflects peer worker values and competencies.
• Provide support for GCHC peers and bolster the peer team to enhance services.
• Facilitate regular peer huddles/meetings to debrief, bolster resiliency and teamwork.
• Promote trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, client-centered service delivery.
• Complete administrative tasks: inventory, orders, Naloxone tracking, and data entry for funding.

Skills

Lived experience

Peer support

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Trauma-informed care

Job description

The Guelph Community Health Centre invites applications for a Peer Lead to support clients of the GCHC Integrated Programs. Working 30 hours per week, you will use your lived experience to build trust with peers and clients and help connect people to services addressing housing, health and wellbeing needs.

Reporting to the Supervisor, Allied Health, you will lead peer development, participate in advisory groups, and ensure trauma-informed, client-centered service delivery across our priority