Peer Support Worker, Mental Health Casual Rotating St Paul's Hospital

• PHC multi-site:
  St Paul's Hospital
• LMC multi-site:
• Categories:
  Support Services
• Max hourly: 29.83 CAD
• Salary grade: 22
• Employment type:
  
  Casual
• Rotation:
  Rotating
• FTE:
  Casual
• Schedule:
  
  Shifts are available between 08:30-18:00, between 4-6hrs in length, depending on day/program worked.
• Union: 100
• Labour agreement: FAC
• Dual RN/RPN (BCNU/HSA) Posting:

• Req
• Location:
  
  Vancouver
• Work site:
  St Paul's Hospital
• Primary site:
  St Paul's Hospital - 1081 Burrard St. Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
• PHC multi-site:
  St Paul's Hospital
• LMC multi-site:
• Work model:
  Onsite
• Categories:
  Support Services
• Min hourly: 29.83 CAD
• Max hourly: 29.83 CAD
• Salary grade: 22
• Employment type:
  
  Casual
• Rotation:
  Rotating
• FTE:
  Casual
• Schedule:
  
  Shifts are available between 08:30-18:00, between 4-6hrs in length, depending on day/program worked.
• Union: 100
• Labour agreement: FAC
• Dual RN/RPN (BCNU/HSA) Posting:

Providence Health Care's Mental Health Program is now casual Peer Support Workers to join multiple teams across the organization. If you have a passion for a harm reduction‑focussed approach to supporting patients with mental health and substance use disorders, this is a fantastic opportunity to join a tight‑knit and supportive interdisciplinary team that fosters a working environment with a sense of community amongst practitioners dedicated to patient care.

Being a Peer in the Mental Health Program provides incredible opportunities for interdisciplinary learning, mentorship, and professional development.

Areas of opportunity include:

• Inpatient Psychiatric Units l’s Hospital, which provide assessment, treatment and stabilization of adults with acute mental health concerns. Peers on inpatient units support with treatment planning, activities, and the transition out of hospital.
• Complex Intervention Response Team (CIRT) is an interdisciplinary rapid response team that specializes in mental health and substance use care, providing timely support, advice, and/or education as needed to clinicians across various units so they can best support their patients who have complex mental health and/or substance use care needs in addition to their medical reason for being in the hospital, working to improve crisis intervention, de‑escalation, and stabilization while ensuring culturally responsive care.

Please note this posting will close at 11:59PM on Sunday, January 18th 2026.

What you will be doing:

Reporting to the Peer Support Leader, the Peer Support Worker is a person who self‑identifies as a Peer, meaning a person with lived/living experience relevant to the client group served, such as structural inequity, interpersonal trauma, racism, trauma, substance use, poverty, sex work, and/or physical or mental health challenges. This role works as an embedded team member in the Complex Intervention Response Team and works alongside other Peers and Indigenous Wellness Liaisons to provide individual Peer support from lived experience to patients and families accessing services at Providence Health Care.

This position acts as a resource for both patients and healthcare providers by providing emotional support and patient advocacy, and promoting health provider relationships that are trauma‑informed, free of anti‑Indigenous racism, and person‑centred. They will participate in meaningful engagement as Peers for ongoing work in strategic planning, harm reduction, and redevelopment, and support research centres within Providence Health Care Research Institute.

• Provide Peer‑Based Emotional Support & Advocacy: Offer compassionate, non‑judgmental support to patients and families based on lived/living experience, helping to navigate mental health, substance use, and systemic barriers across acute and primary care settings.
• Facilitate Access to Services & Cultural Supports: Support connections to Indigenous Wellness Liaisons, harm reduction resources, spiritual care spaces, and other community or cultural programs that align with patients’ needs and identities.
• Promote Culturally Safe, Trauma‑Informed Care: Act as a bridge between patients and health care providers to encourage care that centers harm reduction, cultural humility, and person‑and…