Residential Peer Support Worker - Permanent Full Time

Residential Peer Support Worker - Permanent Full Time

Timmins and Area Womenin Crisis (TAWC) is a dynamic,community-based feminist organization providing services related to intimatepartner abuse and sexual violence to women and their children in the Timminsarea.TAWC works within an integrated feminist, anti-racist, anti-oppressionframework. The agency administers a sexual assaultcentre, an emergency shelter as well as second stage housing to abused womenand their children.

TAWC iscurrently looking for an innovative woman to join our team in the capacity of Residential Peer Support Worker at H.E.R.Place Women’s Shelter.

Main Responsibilities

• Assist in creating and maintaining a safe, confidential,non-judgemental living / working conditions within the shelter
• Provide advocacy and accompaniment for shelter clients
• Provide problem solving, conflict resolution, crisis intervention,advocacy and mediation within the shelter
• Link women and their dependents to appropriate community referrals
• Assistsin meal preparation and housekeeping
• Provideadministrative support to TAWC programs and services, including maintenance ofclient files.
• Attend and participate in fundraising and awareness raisingventures
• Additional tasks as it relates to the organization

Qualifications

TAWC has a COVID-19 Vaccination Policy that requires individuals to take part in COVID-19 vaccination programs recommended by Public Health, unless they are approved for a medical or human rights accommodation from TAWC. Compliance with this policy is mandatory for this position.

ClosingDate : November 23, 2025

Please forward your cover letter and resume to the attention of :

Applicants responding must indicate the position for which they are applying.

Timmins and Area Women inCrisis (TAWC) is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion as well asequity and diversity in its hiring practices.TAWC invites and strongly encourages applications from all qualifiedwomen, including women from historically marginalized and / orunderserved / underrepresented communities, who may contribute to furtherdiversification of our workforce. Thisalso includes, but is not limited to : women who identify asIndigenous / Black / woman of colour, women living with a disAbility, lesbians,bisexual women and transwomen as well as women with lived experience of mentalillness, substance use, trauma, and poverty.

Only candidates selectedfor an interview will be contacted.

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