Certified Peer Specialist
About The Position
The current vacancy is in the Social Services department. The eligibility list created by this vacancy may be used to hire other vacancies in the department or County. This vacancy requires a Certified Peer Support Specialist certification. This position is housed within the Adult Crisis Stabilization Team, located at 402 University Avenue East in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Peer Specialist works in partnership with the lead Stabilization Clinician to implement and support treatment plan goals and activities identified with clients. The primary role of the Peer Specialist is to provide side-by-side support, coaching, encouragement, and mentorship to individuals experiencing mental health crises and recovery challenges. Peer Specialists utilize their lived experience to help clients build hope, resilience, and confidence in their recovery journey. Standard work hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The majority of the work is community-based and is conducted alongside the lead Stabilization Clinician in clients’ homes, community settings, and other service locations.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or equivalent.
- One year of experience assisting clients in recovery practices, rehabilitation and wellness.
- Credentialed as a MN Department of Human Services Certified Peer Specialist through a State endorsed program.
- Must have a valid class D driver’s license and access to a vehicle.
- Attach a copy of your active Certified Peer Support Specialist Certificate (CPSS) with your application.
Responsibilities
- Assist clients with illness management and recovery and all aspects of psychiatric rehabilitation by modeling wellness, personal responsibility, self-advocacy, and hopefulness through the sharing of his or her story, role modeling how the needs of individuals can be respectfully met, and how a belief in ones’ self and recovery is maintained.
- Educate clinical and other staff about the recovery process and the damaging role that stigma can play in undermining recovery.
- Help staff to better understand and empathize with each client’s unique experience and perceptions.
- Provide guidance and encouragement to clients to actively participate in their own recovery.
- Teach clients self-advocacy skills.
- Promote personal growth and development with mental health and substance abuse issues.
- Assist, teach, and support clients regarding activities of daily living, vocational skills, housing access, maintaining financial supports, and utilizing buses and other transportation in the community.
- Provide side-by-side support, coaching and encouragement to help clients socialize and carry out leisure-time activities on evenings, weekends, and holidays.
- Organize and lead individual and group social and recreational activities and provide other opportunities to practice social skills.
- Link clients to other external sources of help, when needed.
- Co-facilitate Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) groups and other groups that facilitate recovery.
- Assist clients in identifying with other consumers who have done well in recovery.
- When appropriate, convey to clients his/her own experiences with mental illness and recovery.
- Assist clients in using holistic/alternative healing practices, when applicable, for their psychiatric condition.
- Attend and participate in all scheduled team meetings.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
