Family Peer Support Worker (AMI Quebec)

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Position Available

FAMILY PEER SUPPORT WORKER (FPSW)

(Contract, part-time)

(Français ci-dessous)

A Family Peer Support Worker (FPSW) is an individual who has (or has had) significant, long-term experience as a caregiver to someone with serious mental health challenges. Recognizing the challenges families affected by mental illnesses face, the FPSW offers information, support, guidance, advocacy, and referrals according to the needs of families. The FPSW may be the first person to acknowledge the needs of families, and is therefore instrumental in encouraging them to seek further support.

A Family Peer Support project has been running at the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) since 2015, and has recently expanded to the entire CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l’ile-de-Montreal. A collaboration between AMI-Quebec and the CIUSSS, the project draws on the strengths of both parties to ensure that the needs of families affected by mental health problems and illness are properly addressed.

Click here to learn more about our Family Peer Support project.

Working at the JGH (some work from home hours are possible) 14 hours a week, $22-$25 an hour, the successful candidate:

  • Has experience as a caregiver to a loved one with mental illness
  • Has good knowledge of the mental health care system in Montreal 
  • Is sensitive to ethno-cultural and other diverse populations
  • Is fluently bilingual (English and French)
  • Enjoys team work but is autonomous
  • Is not afraid of challenges
  • Is sufficiently comfortable with his/her own personal situation

AMI-Québec Action on Mental Illness is a non-profit community-based organization committed to helping families cope with the effects of mental illness through support, education, information and advocacy.

Please send your CV, along with references, to jobapplication@amiquebec.org by September 1.
For more information call AMI-Quebec, 514-486-1448.

Position Available

FAMILY PEER SUPPORT WORKER (FPSW)

(Contract, part-time)

(Français ci-dessous)

A Family Peer Support Worker (FPSW) is an individual who has (or has had) significant, long-term experience as a caregiver to someone with serious mental health challenges. Recognizing the challenges families affected by mental illnesses face, the FPSW offers information, support, guidance, advocacy, and referrals according to the needs of families. The FPSW may be the first person to acknowledge the needs of families, and is therefore instrumental in encouraging them to seek further support.

A Family Peer Support project has been running at the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) since 2015, and has recently expanded to the entire CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l’ile-de-Montreal. A collaboration between AMI-Quebec and the CIUSSS, the project draws on the strengths of both parties to ensure that the needs of families affected by mental health problems and illness are properly addressed.

Click here to learn more about our Family Peer Support project.

Working at the JGH (some work from home hours are possible) 14 hours a week, $22-$25 an hour, the successful candidate:

  • Has experience as a caregiver to a loved one with mental illness
  • Has good knowledge of the mental health care system in Montreal 
  • Is sensitive to ethno-cultural and other diverse populations
  • Is fluently bilingual (English and French)
  • Enjoys team work but is autonomous
  • Is not afraid of challenges
  • Is sufficiently comfortable with his/her own personal situation

AMI-Québec Action on Mental Illness is a non-profit community-based organization committed to helping families cope with the effects of mental illness through support, education, information and advocacy.

Please send your CV, along with references, to jobapplication@amiquebec.org by September 1.
For more information call AMI-Quebec, 514-486-1448.