Peer Support Worker - Supervised Consumption Site
- Classification: Assistant
- Union: Exempt
- Department: Safeworks SCS Program
- Primary Location: Sheldon M Chumir Health Centre
- Negotiable Location: Within Calgary Zone
- Employee Class: Regular Part Time
- FTE: 0.50
- Posting End Date: 22-NOV-2018
- Date Available: 30-NOV-2018
- Hours per Shift: 7.75
- Length of Shift in weeks: 12
- Shifts per cycle: 30
- Shift Pattern: Days, Nights, Weekends
- Days Off: As Per Rotation
- Minimum Salary: $19.12
- Maximum Salary: $31.89
- Vehicle Requirement: N/A
Lived experience with addictions (specifically IV drug use). Must be willing to share one’s personal experience(s). Knowledge of systemic issues such as poverty and stigma. Knowledge and experience of the principles and practice of harm reduction.
Additional Required Qualifications:
Good communication skills (verbal and written). Ability and confidence to interact effectively with diverse populations including gender, cultural, sexual and socio-economic, particularly the homeless. Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team. Competent computer skills including data management.
Preferred Qualifications:
Ongoing participation in the Peer Support Community of Practice offered by CMHA. Mental Health First Aid and NVCI (non-violent crisis intervention). Involvement with local/emerging community of practice and with national peer support organization is strongly encouraged. Knowledge of problems encountered by Indigenous people in using health care services, and of health care systems providing care to Indigenous people. Knowledge of an Indigenous language will be considered an asset.
Please note:
All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.
Security Screening:
A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.
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