Job Order Detail

Description

The Sturgeon Lake Health Centre is seeking a Peer Support Worker for the Home Base Youth Centre. As the Peer Support Worker, you play a crucial role in the pakitahaw skahikanihk (SLFN) promoting miyo-yawin (health and wellness). Your peer support offers a level of acceptance, understanding, and validation by sharing your own lived experience and guidance. You help people develop their own goals, create strategies for self-empowerment, and take steps toward building, fulfilling, self-determined lives for themselves.
As a Peer Support Worker, you will have a significant impact on the youth and children of pakitahaw-skahikan (Sturgeon Lake First Nation). You will create a safe and engaging environment that addresses and promotes wellness. Your work will be instrumental in fostering the visions, values, history, culture, and direction of the Nations health and its effectiveness for pakitahaw-skahikan.

Duties & Responsibilities:
    Provide Support using lived experience to help and support others with empathy, focusing on individual strengths and supporting miyo-yawin (wellness) and recovery.
    Available for non-traditional hours to provide interventions and engage with youth
    Work with the Youth Manager and Youth Workers to create a working schedule.
    Responsible for leading or facilitating presentations/classes regarding the recreational/educational activities of the program: nhiyaw (Cree) Culture, sport and exercise activities, youth workshops, field trips, arts and crafts, Nation involvement and volunteering.
    Provide leadership and guidance to the participants throughout the program.
    Establish a code of conduct among the participants which is respectful of differences.
    Establish a process to ensure the appropriate supervision of participants and the safety of all staff and participants.
    Be a chaperone for participants during workshops or field trips.
    Establish and maintain respectful and professional relationships with organizations