2025-093 TFT Peer Engagement Support Worker
About the role
Position:
Peer Engagement Support Worker
Competition Number:
2025-093
Hours of Work:
37.5 hours per week. Days, Mon-Fri
Reports to:
Program Manager, ICH
Vacancies:
One (1)
Hourly Rate:
Pay Band 4 $ 26.48 – $ 29.83
Job Status:
Temp Full Time (4 months)
Union/Non-Union:
OPSEU/SEFPO Local 489
Location:
Kingston
Job Summary:
The Integrated Care Hub (ICH) Peer Engagement Support Worker as a member of an interprofessional and integrated service team. This position provides services to individuals 18 years of age and older who use substances and/or have a serious mental illness and access services at the Integrated Care Hub.
The Peer Engagement Support Worker plays a key role in connecting clients to essential services, focusing on harm reduction, health and wellness, and support. This role involves actively engaging clients, identifying health and service needs, supporting harm reduction practices, and ensuring safe, respectful environments within AMHS settings. As a peer-based role, lived experience is an asset in building trusting relationships and promoting client-centred care. Utilizing personal experiences with mental health and addictions they apply harm reduction practices and promote a harm reduction culture in their work. All services are provided in accordance with the mission, vision, values, and established policies and protocols of the Agency.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Relevant post-secondary education including a college diploma in a health care or social service discipline
- One-year relevant experience providing services to individuals who use substances, live with a serious mental illness and/or are homeless
- Lived experience with addiction and/or serious mental health illness, either personally or through a close family member.
- Certification in First Aid and CPR, an asset.
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) and Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (NVCI) an asset
- Experience working within a case management model, an asset
- French Language proficiency, written and verbal, an asset
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge of and ability to apply discipline specific principles and practices to individuals who use substances and/or live with a serious mental illness, within a harm reduction and client-centered approach
- Ability to work under pressure within a fast-paced environment
- A valid Ontario Driver’s License and have regular access to a reliable vehicle and provide proof of $2,000,000 vehicle insurance. Incumbent may be required to transport clients.
- Required to provide a satisfactory criminal reference check (CRC) with Vulnerable Sector Screening prior to hire.
2025-093 – TFT Peer Engagement Support Worker
Please submit a resume and cover letter as one document only quoting Competition Number 2025-093 to: careers@amhs-kfla.ca
AMHS-KFLA strives to be a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from all candidates who would contribute to the diversity of our community and enhance our ability to provide quality services to our clients.
About Addiction & Mental Health Services - KFLA
AMHS-KFLA is a non-profit organization providing mental health and addiction services to nearly 8,000 people across Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington.
Focusing on a client-centred model of care, AMHS-KFLA's 250+ highly-skilled staff act with an emphasis on psychosocial rehabilitation, harm reduction and evidence-based principles and practices. Quality services are provided with dignity, hope and in confidence.
Our Vision: A community where people have wellness, acceptance and a sense of belonging.
Our Mission: As a leading, transformative and collaborative organization, AMHS-KFLA's mission is to provide responsive, high-quality, community-based addiction and mental health services that empower the people it serves to be well and achieve their full potential.
Our Values:
Compassion - A welcoming and inclusive organization, we cultivate relationships with all stakeholders that encourage and promote recovery and wellness. We are universally positive in all our actions with individuals served and the community.
Innovation - We seek to innovate in all we do. We will be socially entrepreneurial and create a culture of measured risk to achieve organizational and system sustainability.
Excellence - We strive to provide accessible, flexible, integrated services in safe welcoming environments. We have a learning culture where initiative, innovation, and creativity are highly valued. The foundation of our services rests on excellence in all that we do.
Accountability - We will act honestly and with integrity by taking responsibility for our own actions and by holding others responsible for theirs. We will ensure proper stewardship of the public resources placed in our trust.
2025-093 TFT Peer Engagement Support Worker
About the role
Position:
Peer Engagement Support Worker
Competition Number:
2025-093
Hours of Work:
37.5 hours per week. Days, Mon-Fri
Reports to:
Program Manager, ICH
Vacancies:
One (1)
Hourly Rate:
Pay Band 4 $ 26.48 – $ 29.83
Job Status:
Temp Full Time (4 months)
Union/Non-Union:
OPSEU/SEFPO Local 489
Location:
Kingston
Job Summary:
The Integrated Care Hub (ICH) Peer Engagement Support Worker as a member of an interprofessional and integrated service team. This position provides services to individuals 18 years of age and older who use substances and/or have a serious mental illness and access services at the Integrated Care Hub.
The Peer Engagement Support Worker plays a key role in connecting clients to essential services, focusing on harm reduction, health and wellness, and support. This role involves actively engaging clients, identifying health and service needs, supporting harm reduction practices, and ensuring safe, respectful environments within AMHS settings. As a peer-based role, lived experience is an asset in building trusting relationships and promoting client-centred care. Utilizing personal experiences with mental health and addictions they apply harm reduction practices and promote a harm reduction culture in their work. All services are provided in accordance with the mission, vision, values, and established policies and protocols of the Agency.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Relevant post-secondary education including a college diploma in a health care or social service discipline
- One-year relevant experience providing services to individuals who use substances, live with a serious mental illness and/or are homeless
- Lived experience with addiction and/or serious mental health illness, either personally or through a close family member.
- Certification in First Aid and CPR, an asset.
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) and Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (NVCI) an asset
- Experience working within a case management model, an asset
- French Language proficiency, written and verbal, an asset
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge of and ability to apply discipline specific principles and practices to individuals who use substances and/or live with a serious mental illness, within a harm reduction and client-centered approach
- Ability to work under pressure within a fast-paced environment
- A valid Ontario Driver’s License and have regular access to a reliable vehicle and provide proof of $2,000,000 vehicle insurance. Incumbent may be required to transport clients.
- Required to provide a satisfactory criminal reference check (CRC) with Vulnerable Sector Screening prior to hire.
2025-093 – TFT Peer Engagement Support Worker
Please submit a resume and cover letter as one document only quoting Competition Number 2025-093 to: careers@amhs-kfla.ca
AMHS-KFLA strives to be a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from all candidates who would contribute to the diversity of our community and enhance our ability to provide quality services to our clients.
About Addiction & Mental Health Services - KFLA
AMHS-KFLA is a non-profit organization providing mental health and addiction services to nearly 8,000 people across Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington.
Focusing on a client-centred model of care, AMHS-KFLA's 250+ highly-skilled staff act with an emphasis on psychosocial rehabilitation, harm reduction and evidence-based principles and practices. Quality services are provided with dignity, hope and in confidence.
Our Vision: A community where people have wellness, acceptance and a sense of belonging.
Our Mission: As a leading, transformative and collaborative organization, AMHS-KFLA's mission is to provide responsive, high-quality, community-based addiction and mental health services that empower the people it serves to be well and achieve their full potential.
Our Values:
Compassion - A welcoming and inclusive organization, we cultivate relationships with all stakeholders that encourage and promote recovery and wellness. We are universally positive in all our actions with individuals served and the community.
Innovation - We seek to innovate in all we do. We will be socially entrepreneurial and create a culture of measured risk to achieve organizational and system sustainability.
Excellence - We strive to provide accessible, flexible, integrated services in safe welcoming environments. We have a learning culture where initiative, innovation, and creativity are highly valued. The foundation of our services rests on excellence in all that we do.
Accountability - We will act honestly and with integrity by taking responsibility for our own actions and by holding others responsible for theirs. We will ensure proper stewardship of the public resources placed in our trust.