Calgary Zone RA, Calgary, Calgary Remand Centre

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Mental Health 

REC00002757

14 minutes ago

Your Opportunity:

The Peer Support Worker is an essential member of the integrated recovery-orientated team that works in collaboration with individuals within our correctional health services centers and external stakeholders to facilitate transition into the community. The Peer Support Worker is a key member of an integrated, recovery-oriented health care team within correctional health services. This role supports individuals experiencing mental health and/or substance use challenges by promoting recovery, resilience, and continuity of care as individuals transition from custody to community-based supports. Working collaboratively with interdisciplinary team members and external service providers, the Peer Support Worker contributes to the planning and delivery of client-centered interventions that compliment clinical and outreach services. Drawing on lived experience of recovery, the Peer Support Worker provides peer-based support, mentorship, and practical assistance to clients, helping them navigate systems of care, access appropriate resources, and build skills to support their ongoing recovery. This position emphasizes respectful engagement, cultural safety, and recovery oriented practice. The Peer Support Worker supports a coordinated and integrated approach to care by fostering collaboration between correctional health services and community partners, and by promoting hope, empowerment, and self-determination among individuals with complex and diverse needs.

Description:

As a Peer Support Worker, you will provide interventions and supports that are complementary to the work of a multi-disciplinary outreach team. The team functions together to provide treatment, rehabilitation and support services for the diverse needs of clients navigating life impacting experiences. Through your own lived experience(s), and experiences of recovery and resilience, as the Peer Support Worker, you can authentically inspire hope to clients by sharing your story, offering mentorship and support; advocating for client needs; and supporting an integrated and resiliency/recovery-oriented health care and treatment experience.

• Classification: Peer Support Worker
• Union: AUPE GSS
• Unit and Program: Addiction and Mental Health Transition and Discharge Services, Correctional Health Services
• Primary Location: Calgary Remand Centre
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 25-MAY-2026
• Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits
• Date Available: 15-JUN-2026
• Temporary End Date: 26-FEB-2027
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 10
• Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Weekends
• Days Off: As Per Rotation
• Minimum Salary: $27.23
• Maximum Salary: $30.00
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications:

Please refer to the Additional Required Qualifications.

Additional Required Qualifications:

Completion of Grade 12 or equivalent. Warm and welcoming engagement style. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Lived experience in recovery from a mental health and/or addiction illness. Knowledge of systemic issues such as poverty, unemployment, stigma, medications, and the isolation felt by individuals with serious addictions and/or mental health issues. Experience and interest in working with people recovering from and living with addiction.

Preferred Qualifications:

As Required.