PROGRAM AREA: Integrated Programs

Position: Relief Peer Worker

EMPLOYMENT STATUS: Relief

HOURS/WEEK: Relief, as needed

What We Live By:

• Our Vision: A community without barriers to health and wellbeing.
• Our Mission: We reduce health inequities by providing interprofessional primary health services and community programs, focused on the populations we prioritize, in collaboration with community partners.
• Our Values: Innovation, Accountability, Person-Centred, Health Promotion, Excellence, Sustainability, Accessibility

Guelph Community Health Centre prioritizes people who face barriers to health and accessing services, and people who identify as:

• Homeless or at risk of homelessness
• Living on low income
• Newcomers to Canada with language barriers
• Having moderate to severe mental health and/or addiction issues
• Having moderate to severe disabilities
• Indigenous First Nations, Inuit and Mtis
• Black, mixed race and racialized populations
• Experiencing intersectional oppression
• 2SLGBTQIA+
• Vulnerable children and their families experiencing conflict, isolation or attachment struggles

Program Description:

The Guelph-Wellington HART Hub is an integrated and interdisciplinary primary care and social service program that provides continuous stage-matched care to individuals seeking treatment, recovery, and access to permanent housing. The services offered at the HART Hub include primary care and acute episodic healthcare, mental healthcare and treatment, addictions care and treatment, and housing services for adults and youth (age 16 and older) living in Guelph and Wellington County and who are members of our priority populations.

Reporting to the Clinical Supervisor, the HART Hub Peer will provide support and education to individuals accessing the HART Hub services. They will use their unique personal and lived experiences to build positive relationships and connections with clients. They will work with folks along the substance use continuum and will act as an integral part of the integrated team providing wrap around care for clients.
Please note this is a relief position with no guarantee of hours.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Lived experience with addiction, mental health challenges, and/or homelessness
• Experience working with people along the substance use continuum
• Experience supporting clients with high levels of complexity related to their physical health, mental health, substance use and access to basic needs
• Emergency First Aid (or equivalent) and CPR level C (Health Care Provider level, preferred)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong ability to work with and build rapport with members of our priority populations
• Demonstrated ability to work well under pressure, to work independently with minimal direction, to multi-task, to problem solve, to take initiative, and to meet the needs of the client.
• Understanding of Indigenous Cultural Safety principles and trauma-informed care.

Principal Job Duties:

• Provide a low-barrier connection opportunity for clients accessing HART Hub services,
• Build positive relationships and rapport with clients to establish trust
• Support access to basic needs provisions (i.e. shower program and other supplies)
• Provide opportunities for therapeutic listening for clients, drawing on their lived experience, where appropriate
• Support clients to complete initial HART Hub intake assessment form
• Support client problem solving and system navigation
• Provide crisis intervention and de-escalation support on site, as required
  

We know that experience comes in many forms. If you have some of these qualities and are excited about this opportunity, then we want to hear from you.Please visit our websiteatwww.guelphchc.caand apply using the online application tool by end of day April 24, 2025.

Guelph Community Health Centre is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including individuals from priority populations who may identify as 2SLGBTQIA+, persons with disabilities, Indigenous, First Nations, Inuit and Metis individuals, and members of Black and other racialized communities.

We thank, in advance, those who apply, but will contact only those who qualify for interviews.

If at any stage in the selection process you require accommodation, please let us know the nature of the required accommodation.
We require that all finalist applicants undergo a Criminal Record Check and Vulnerable Sector Screen through their local Police Services Branch prior to start date.