Certified Intentional Peer Support Specialist (CIPSS)

Assistance Plus • Dayton, OH

12d • $19 - $21

About The Position

The Certified Intentional Peer Support Specialist (CIPSS) works with the behavioral home team to ensure coordinated, integrated care for the youth and families served. The role provides leadership and technical assistance in developing and implementing BHHO peer support services. Sharing personal experiences with coworkers and community providers is essential to success. The position requires flexible hours, which may include weekends, evenings, and holidays.

Requirements

• Proof of vehicle insurance at $50,000/$100,000.
• Valid Maine driver’s license.
• Must be at least 18 years old.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• CIPSS certification or provisional CIPSS certification.
• Self-identified mental health consumer with personal experience of severe and persistent mental illness.

Responsibilities

• Identify individual needs for peer support through interaction with the BHHO team and clients.
• Provide individual and group peer support to BHHO team clients and other clients.
• Act as a peer role model, demonstrating effective interpersonal communication and community integration strategies.
• Help clients understand their rights and responsibilities as recipients of mental health and co-occurring substance use disorder services.
• Network with current programs and advocate for new opportunities in community supports, programs, and activities of clients’ choice.
• Help clients understand their experiences of mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorder through shared peer experience.
• Understand and actively support the BHHO model, the client-directed outcome-informed model, and recovery principles.
• Provide a client-experience perspective as a participating BHHO member, helping staff understand mental illness.
• Attend and actively participate in BHHO staff and team meetings and supervisions.
• Provide volunteer peer services outside regular business hours.
• Receive required individual supervision under the CIPSS program.
• Assist clients with transportation in conjunction with goals on their ISP.
• Accept and follow through on guidance for professional growth and performance improvement during clinical and administrative supervision.
• Provide additional individual and program consultations in areas of demonstrated special expertise.
• Participate in required and elective staff development activities in accordance with the individual staff development plan.

Benefits

• Mileage reimbursement.
• Flexible schedule.
• Paid time off.
• Work within 30 miles of your home.
• No vaccine requirement.
• Work/life balance.
• Job-specific training at no cost.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED