Full Time Peer Support Specialist, Cornerstone Housing

**We’re Hiring: Full Time Peer Support Specialist, Cornerstone Housing** ======================================================================== **Location:** Brantford, ON **Hours:** Full Time: Sunday - Thursday 1:30pm-9pm **Start Date:** November 30th, 2026 **Apply by:** November 24th, 2026 | **Reference:** FT Peer Support Specialist **Email Applications to:** recruit@soarcs.ca **About SOAR Community Services** --------------------------------- At SOAR, we believe in lifting communities through compassionate, inclusive, and innovative care. Serving the communities of Brantford, Brant, Haldimand, and Norfolk since 1968, we are accredited in Children and Youth Mental Health, Community Mental Health and Addictions Services and Youth Justice Services through the Canadian Centre for Accreditation. Our departments include Employment, Justice, Mental Health and Addictions, and Housing. Join a team that’s committed to making a difference – every day. **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. **What You’ll Bring** --------------------- * College Diploma in Human/Social Services field. * Personal experience using the Substance