Peer Support Worker

About the role

XaaydaGa Dlaang Society, also known as Skidegate Health Centre, supports community health and well-being through holistic care grounded in Haida culture, values, and ways of knowing. It honors Haida language, teachings, and traditional knowledge while integrating Western health-care practices.

The Peer Support Worker uses lived experience of mental health and/or substance use to provide culturally grounded, trauma-informed, relationship-based support. The role includes outreach, connection, help accessing services, and contributing lived experience perspectives to programs, community planning, and service improvement.

Responsibilities

• Build trusting, respectful, and nonjudgmental relationships with people experiencing mental health and/or substance-use challenges.
• Provide culturally grounded one-on-one peer support, outreach, encouragement, and practical assistance.
• Support people experiencing distress or crisis and connect them with appropriate clinical, cultural, health, and community resources.
• Help people navigate health and social service systems, including accompanying them to appointments as appropriate.
• Use lived and living experience to build connection, reduce stigma, encourage help-seeking, and support individual wellness.
• Promote harm-reduction, trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, and culturally safe approaches to care.

Key facts

• Reports to the Mental Health Team Lead.
• The position is 0.67 full-time, fixed-term for two years, at 23.5 hours per week.