Youth PSW Employment Opportunity with Foundry
Youth Peer Support Worker
Employment with Foundry Works
Department: Foundry Works
Job Status: Temporary Part-Time
Home Worksite: 22 – North Shore Mental Health
Labour Agreement: Community Subsector
Union: 310 – Community HSA (37.5 Hr)
Position Type: Other Relief
FTE: 0.50
Standard Hours / Week: 18.75
Job Category: Community Health Services
Salary Grade: 21
Min Hourly: CAD $26.30/Hr.
Max Hourly: CAD $28.74/Hr.
Shift Times: 0830-1630
Days Off: Saturday, Stats, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Position Start Date: As soon as possible
Job Summary
Come work as a Youth Peer Support Worker, Employment with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)!
Vancouver Coastal Health is looking for a Youth Peer Support Worker, Employment to join the Foundry Works team in North Vancouver, BC . Apply today to join our team!
As a Peer Support Worker, Employment, you will:
- Report to the Foundry Works Lead, the Youth Peer Support Worker-Employment, is part of an interdisciplinary team providing online and in person peer support services to youth or who have experienced mental health or substance use challenges.
- Provide a range of non-clinical, peer-based services to youth through sharing living/lived experiences including assisting in the navigation of the mental health/substance use system, while providing individualized peer-based practical, emotional and social supports.
- Work alongside Clinicians to deliver employment services.
- Facilitate peer-based groups and conducts peer information sessions and delivers services in alignment with Foundry’s Service Model.
Qualifications
Education & Experience
- Grade 12 graduation
- Completion of a recognized Peer Support Training Program.
- Two (2) years’ recent related experience in a peer support role or an equivalent combination of education, training, peer support and employment experience.
- Lived experience with recovery from a mental illness and as a recipient of mental health and addiction services including peer knowledge of the designated service user population in the applicable program area or department.
Knowledge & Abilities
- Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality, and work with personal and role specific limits and boundaries.
- Demonstrated ability to use one’s lived/living experience to promote positive connections with youth at differing levels of engagement.
- Demonstrated knowledge of mental health and substance use resources and community services.
- Demonstrated ability in using a strength-based approach in sharing challenges and co-creating solutions.
- Demonstrated skill in using computers including using technology-based solutions for service delivery, documentation, and viewing screening and assessment data.
- Demonstrated ability to work with diverse populations and to recognize and respond appropriately to the needs of youth.
- Knowledge of harm reduction principles and activities.
- Knowledge of crisis intervention and conflict resolution.
- Ability to develop, organize, coordinate, deliver, and evaluate individual and group activities.
- Ability to establish and maintain rapport with youth.
- Ability to observe and recognize changes in youth.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Ability to work as part of an interdisciplinary team.
- Ability to use effective interpersonal skills to establish/maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, the public and other agencies.
- Ability to organize and prioritize.
- Ability to analyze and resolve problems.
- Ability to operate related equipment.
- Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.
