Peer Support Worker

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    "description": "<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">About </span><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Ballad Group</span></span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\">Ballad is seeking an Independent Contractor Peer Support Worker with lived experience to deliver structured one-on-one coaching and peer group conversations with participants in the Red Deer Workforce Employment Readiness and Connections Program (WERC).</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\">Ballad Group is a purpose-driven organization that provides employment services across Alberta for unemployed and underemployed Albertans facing multiple barriers to employment. Our Albert<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0)\">a <a href=\"https://balladgroup.ca/courses/werc-calgary/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WERC programs</a> alone </span>help over 1,000 people each year find meaningful work, build industry-responsive skills, and empower economic resilience. These WERC programs include simulated worksites that provide hands-on pre-trades training in construction, maintenance, agriculture, and hospitality designed to reflect real job expectations. We have 7 simulated worksites in High Level, Grande Prairie, Whitecourt, Red Deer, Edmonton, Brooks, and Calgary.</span></p>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\"> Ballad delivers training programs for a variety of organizations, Indigenous Communities and on behalf of the Ministry of Jobs, Economy, Trade and Immigration,  and Ministry of Assisted Living and Social Services.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\">This contract position is in-person up to 15 hours per week at our Red Deer Training Centre. </span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Key Responsibilities</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\">Work closely with the Program Supervisor to deliver structured one-on-one and group Peer Support services.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\">Build and maintain strong therapeutic alliances through trust, consistency, collaboration, empathy, and mutual goal setting.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\">Apply Trauma-Informed Care principles in every interaction by prioritizing emotional safety, choice, pacing, transparency, and empowerment.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\">Maintain clear boundaries and role clarity while modelling healthy communication, self-regulation strategies, and strengths-based engagement.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\">Support culturally safe, inclusive, and accessible services for diverse populations.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\">Document Peer Support activities and outcomes, ensuring records are timely, accurate, and respectful. </span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Qualifications</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\">A High School Diploma is required, and completion of a recognized peer support training program is considered an asset. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\">A minimum of one year in the employment services or community resource coordination field in a paid or volunteer capacity.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\">Ability to share lived experience in a professional, ethical, and understanding of trauma-informed practices and therapeutic alliance approaches. </span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\">Training in mentorship, coaching, peer support or community engagement, with an emphasis on Trauma-Informed and culturally safe practices.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\">Strong communication, active listening, and boundary-setting skills.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\">Willingness to engage in training on trauma-informed care, confidentiality, cultural safety, and peer ethics.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\">​​Lived experience including personal insight into barriers such as disability, mental health, addictions, unemployment, or justice involvement.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\">Peer Support training or certification is considered an asset.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt\">Willingness to obtain a Vulnerable Sector Check, where required.</span></li>\n</ul>",
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