Position: Peer Support Worker - GB Mental Health & Early Psychosis Intervention
File #: 2022-29867
Status: Permanent Full-time
Dept/Health Program: Mental Health - Inpatient & Early Psychosis Intervention Ambulatory Program
Site: Mississauga Hospital
Role/Level: AH03 ($22.93 to $26.41)
Hours of Work/Shifts: Monday to Friday/8am to 4pm
Posted: October 25,2022
Internal Deadline: November 1,2022
Trillium Health Partners (THP) is one of the largest community-based acute care facilities in Canada. Comprised of the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital, the Queensway Health Centre, and the Reactivation Center at Humber. Trillium Health Partners serves the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto and surrounding communities and is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.
Our Mission: A New Kind of Health Care for a Healthier Community
Our Values: Compassion, Excellence, Courage
Our Goals: Quality, Access, Sustainability
Our Enablers: People, Education, Innovation, Research
Position Summary:
At Trillium Health Partners the Mental Health programs provide psychiatric assessment, short-term treatment and stabilization for adults and seniors. The program areas are staffed by a multidisciplinary team that includes psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, and pharmacists. Treatment modalities include nursing care, group activities, pharmacological treatments and individual therapy.
Reporting to the Patient Care Manager, the peer support worker will work as a member the multi-disciplinary team to provide support to patients admitted to the Hospital, and within the Early Psychosis Intervention Program. The Peer Support Worker works with patients in individual and group settings to facilitate and support recovery for adults and youth facing mental health challenges through empowerment, compassion, empathy and mutual understanding. The Peer Support Worker has gone through the process of their own recovery and they will use this experience to assist others on their recovery journey.
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