Certified Intentional Peer Support Specialist (CIPSS)

Assistance Plus•Monclova, OH

12d•$19 - $21•Onsite

About The Position

The Certified Intentional Peer Support Specialist (CIPSS) works with the behavioral home team to help ensure well-coordinated and integrated care for youth and families. The role provides leadership and technical assistance in developing and implementing BHHO peer support services. Success requires a willingness to share personal experiences with coworkers and community providers. The position involves providing individual and group peer support, modeling effective communication and community integration, and helping clients understand their rights and responsibilities, mental illness, and co-occurring substance use disorder through shared experience. The CIPSS contributes a client perspective to the BHHO team and supports recovery-oriented, client-directed care. The role requires flexible hours that may include evenings, weekends, and holidays, as well as volunteer peer services outside regular business hours.

Requirements

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.
Valid Maine driver’s license.
Proof of vehicle insurance at $50,000/$100,000.

Responsibilities

Identify individual peer-support needs 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 by demonstrating effective interpersonal communication and community integration strategies.
Help clients understand their rights and responsibilities as recipients of mental health and co-occurring 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 experience as peers.
Understand and actively support the BHHO model, the client-directed outcome-informed client 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 supervision.
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.
Follow guidance for professional growth and performance improvement in 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 an individual staff development plan.