Full Time Peer Support Specialist, Cornerstone Housing
Why Work for SOAR Community Services
About SOAR Community Services
SOAR Community Services (formerly St. Leonard's Community Services) has been an established part of the community for more than 55 years, and is accredited for our excellence in serving children, youth, adults, and families.
Our Purpose
We support people to achieve new heights.
We do this by:
- Delivering quality services
- Coordinating care
- Partnering with others
- Supporting staff success
- Continuously improving our services
Our Principles
- Empowered Client Voices
- Clarity with Compassion
- Unified by Teamwork
- Integrity Through Consistency
- Inclusion in Action
- Leadership Through Empowerment
- Community Connected Care
- Adaptation and Innovation
- Governance in Partnership
Sunday - Thursday 1:30pm-9pm
Duties
The Opportunity
We are recruiting for a Full Time Peer Support Specialist, Cornerstone Housing. This role is a vital part of our Housing Program, supporting individuals with a 23-bed transitional housing residence for both males and females between the ages of 17-29 years of age. Cornerstone House works with individuals who are precariously housed or at risk of homelessness and provides them with a safe place to stay, help and support with counselling and life skills coaching to support the transition towards independent living.
By drawing from lived experience of mental health, addiction and/or homelessness challenges, Peer Support Specialist assists and mentors clients as they consider and determine unique goals and objectives; facilitates and supports individuals offering hope of recovery for clients affected by addictions, mental health challenges and/or homelessness; and provides activities, support and linkages that help to improve clients’ quality of life and ability to cope with daily stressors; facilitates peer support group sessions and assists with already established support plans.
What You’ll Do
- Intervenes and manages client behaviours by using Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) techniques.
- Encourages clients to be independent, promotes individual hope, empowerment and self-determination.
- Integrates personal recovery process and lived experience of the mental health, homelessness and/or addiction system to support clients in their own recovery journey.
- Provides emotional support, group support services, and linkages with community resources; and instruction in life skills.
- Assists in developing and co-facilitating recovery-oriented peer-led support groups.
- Advocates for clients when necessary and assists clients in assertiveness and in developing advocacy skills for themselves.
Qualifications
What You’ll Bring
- College Diploma in Human/Social Services field.
- Personal experience using the Substance Use, Mental Health and/or Homelessness system.
- Ability to be a positive role model.
- Must have access to reliable transportation, as some travel may be required.
- Must hold a valid G driver’s license and be able to transport clients to appointments, community activities, and program-related events.
Eligibility
- Vacant Position
- Must be eligible to work in Canada
Benefits
Why Join SOAR?
• Salary: Starting at $23.87 per hour
• Schedule: Sunday - Thursday 1:30pm-9pm
• Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and travel insurance, with options fully paid for Full Time staff.
• Time off: 3 weeks’ vacation, 60 hours of personal leave, and 15 hours of wellness time (pro-rated first year).
• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) for staff and their families.
• RSP/TFSA matching for eligible staff.
• A supportive, values-driven workplace that prioritizes your well-being.
How to Apply
Ready to Make an Impact?
We’re looking for someone passionate about empowering client voices, connection in community care and inclusion in action! If that’s you, we want to hear from you.
Start Date: November 30th, 2026
Apply by: November 24th, 2026 | Reference: FT Peer Support Specialist
Email Applications to: recruit@soarcs.ca
Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Our Commitment to Job Seekers
SOAR Community Services is committed to implementing the Calls to Action framed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. We acknowledge that we live and work on the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit and traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wyandot, the Haudenosaunee, and some of the Ojibwa Nation. The territory is mutually covered by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant. We are grateful to have the opportunity to work in this community, on this territory. We also acknowledge that the settler population has been able to benefit from this beautiful land. We are all treaty members and will strive to act in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and center their voices.
SOAR Community Services is committed to advancing equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging within our workplace and across the communities we serve. We welcome applications from individuals with lived and living experience and from members of equity-deserving groups, including Indigenous, Black, and racialized communities, 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals, and persons with disabilities. We encourage applications from all qualified individuals. If you require accommodations as part of the hiring process, please let us know so that we may arrange for their provision
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