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Full Time Peer Support Specialist, Cornerstone Housing
@ SOAR Community Services
Brantford, Ontario
En bref
SOAR Community Services is hiring a full-time Peer Support Specialist for its Cornerstone Housing program in Brantford, ON, supporting residents of a 23-bed transitional housing residence for ages 17-29. The work involves mentoring clients, facilitating peer-led recovery groups and drawing on lived experience of mental health, addiction or homelessness. The posting states a schedule of Sunday to Thursday, 1:30pm-9pm, a starting wage of $23.87 per hour, and a start date of November 30, 2026.
Salaire :
À partir de 23,87 $ de l’heure
Responsabilités :
- Manage client behaviours using Crisis Intervention Training techniques
- Facilitate and co-facilitate peer-led support groups
- Provide emotional support, life skills instruction and community linkages
- Advocate for clients and build their self-advocacy skills
Résumé des exigences :
- College diploma in human or social services
- Personal experience with substance use, mental health or homelessness system
- Valid G driver's licence and reliable transportation
- Ability to be a positive role model
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- Date publiée par l’employeur
- Non fourni
- Première détection par notre source
- 2026-11-10
- Mise à jour du dossier source
- 2026-11-10
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Détails du poste
| Niveau | Débutant |
| Domaine | Services sociaux et communautaires |
| Heures par semaine | 37.5 |
| Horaire | soir, fins de semaine |
| Déplacements | avion : aucun · route : minimes |
| Milieu de travail | Résidence de soins, Bureau |
| Position | Assis et debout |
| Exigences physiques | physique faible · ordinateur faible |
| Langues | English |
| Permis de conduire | exigé |
| Candidatures encouragées | Autochtones, Personnes racisées, 2ELGBTQI+, Personnes handicapées |
| Formation | Collégial (DEC) (exigé) |
| Domaines d’études | Human services, Social services |
| Avantages mentionnés | Congés payés généreux, Mieux-être |
Résumé et détails rédigés par l’IA à partir de l’offre; l’offre de l’employeur fait foi.
SOAR Community Services
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Striving to meet our community needs, with programming in Addictions & Mental Health, Housing, Justice and Employment
Description complète de l’entreprise
SOAR Community Services is a not-for-profit organization that has been offering help to the people in Brantford, Brant, and Haldimand for over 55 years. Today, we provide our community members with support in the areas of Employment, Housing, Justice, and Addictions and Mental Health. Some of the most vulnerable people we work with need assistance in more than one – or even all - of these categories.
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- Bureaux déclarés
- 133 Elgin St, Brantford, Ontario N3S 5A5, CA
- 208 Broad Street East, Dunville, Ontario N1A 1G2, CA
- 11 Argyle Street North, Caledonia, Ontario N3W 1B7, CA
- 225 Fairview Drive, Brantford, Ontario N3R 7E3, CA
- Catégories d’activité
- Health Care
- Mental Health
- Autres noms enregistrés
- SOAR Community Services
- Spécialités
- Addictions & Mental Health
- Justice
- Housing
- and Employment
- Le profil indique une agence de recrutement
- Non
- Investissement total déclaré
- 0
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SOAR Community Services is a not-for-profit organization that has been offering help to the people in Brantford, Brant, and Haldimand for over 55 years. Today, we provide our community members with support in the areas of Employment, Housing, Justice, and Addictions and Mental Health. Some of the most vulnerable people we work with need assistance in more than one – or even all - of these categories.
| Champ | Valeur |
|---|---|
| Secteur | Individual and Family Services |
| Taille | 51-200 employees |
| Siège social | Brantford, Ontario |
| Type d’organisation | Nonprofit |
| Fondée en | 1968 |
| Spécialités | Addictions & Mental HealthJusticeHousingand Employment |
| Offres sur Jobsy | 12 |
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We’re Hiring: Full Time Peer Support Specialist, Cornerstone Housing
Location: Brantford, ON
Hours: Full Time: Sunday - Thursday 1:30pm-9pm
Start Date: November 30th, 2026
Apply by: November 24th, 2026 | Reference: FT Peer Support Specialist
Email Applications to: [email protected]
About SOAR Community Services
At SOAR, we believe in lifting communities through compassionate, inclusive, and innovative care. Serving the communities of Brantford, Brant, Haldimand, and Norfolk since 1968, we are accredited in Children and Youth Mental Health, Community Mental Health and Addictions Services and Youth Justice Services through the Canadian Centre for Accreditation. Our departments include Employment, Justice, Mental Health and Addictions, and Housing. Join a team that’s committed to making a difference – every day.
The Opportunity
We are recruiting for a Full Time Peer Support Specialist, Cornerstone Housing. This role is a vital part of our Housing Program, supporting individuals with a 23-bed transitional housing residence for both males and females between the ages of 17-29 years of age. Cornerstone House works with individuals who are precariously housed or at risk of homelessness and provides them with a safe place to stay, help and support with counselling and life skills coaching to support the transition towards independent living.
By drawing from lived experience of mental health, addiction and/or homelessness challenges, Peer Support Specialist assists and mentors clients as they consider and determine unique goals and objectives; facilitates and supports individuals offering hope of recovery for clients affected by addictions, mental health challenges and/or homelessness; and provides activities, support and linkages that help to improve clients’ quality of life and ability to cope with daily stressors; facilitates peer support group sessions and assists with already established support plans.
What You’ll Do
- Intervenes and manages client behaviours by using Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) techniques.
- Encourages clients to be independent, promotes individual hope, empowerment and self-determination.
- Integrates personal recovery process and lived experience of the mental health, homelessness and/or addiction system to support clients in their own recovery journey.
- Provides emotional support, group support services, and linkages with community resources; and instruction in life skills.
- Assists in developing and co-facilitating recovery-oriented peer-led support groups.
- Advocates for clients when necessary and assists clients in assertiveness and in developing advocacy skills for themselves.
What You’ll Bring
- College Diploma in Human/Social Services field.
- Personal experience using the Substance Use, Mental Health and/or Homelessness system.
- Ability to be a positive role model.
- Must have access to reliable transportation, as some travel may be required.
- Must hold a valid G driver’s license and be able to transport clients to appointments, community activities, and program-related events.
Why Join SOAR?
• Salary: Starting at $23.87 per hour.
• Schedule: Sunday - Thursday 1:30pm-9pm
• Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and travel insurance, with options fully paid for Full Time staff.
• Time off: 3 weeks’ vacation, 60 hours of personal leave, and 15 hours of wellness time (pro-rated first year).
• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) for staff and their families.
• RSP/TFSA matching for eligible staff.
• A supportive, values-driven workplace that prioritizes your well-being.
Ready to Make an Impact?
We’re looking for someone passionate about empowering client voices, connection in community care and inclusion in action! If that’s you, we want to hear from you.
SOAR Community Services is committed to advancing equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging within our workplace and across the communities we serve. We welcome applications from individuals with lived and living experience and from members of equity-deserving groups, including Indigenous, Black, and racialized communities, 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, and persons with disabilities. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals. If you require accommodations as part of the hiring process, please let us know so that we may arrange for their provision.
Personal information submitted will only be used for the purposes of the competition in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Sunday - Thursday 1:30pm-9pm
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