Transform your Mental Health Worker position into a Peer Worker position
Core
Transform an existing Mental Health Worker role into a Peer Worker position by utilizing lived experience of mental health issues to support individuals on their recovery journey.
Role type
Peer Worker (Internal Role Transformation)
Builds
Person-led, strengths-focused, recovery-based support and advocacy for individuals with lived experience of mental health challenges.
Domain
Mental Health / Social Services
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
Lived experience of a mental health issue, ability to build respectful professional relationships, advocacy skills, recovery-based language usage
Preferred skills
Systemic advocacy experience, staff learning facilitation
Responsibilities
Walk beside individuals on their recovery journey, build professional relationships based on shared lived experience, advocate for individuals on an individual and possibly systemic basis, contribute to staff learning and service understanding.
Seniority
Individual Contributor
