Certified Peer Support Specialist Supervisor

Southeastern Integrated Care LLC•Shallotte, NC

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Peer Support Specialist is responsible for providing coaching, mentoring, and consultation to the beneficiary to promote recovery, self-advocacy, and self-direction.

Requirements

Must possess at a minimum High School Diploma/GED
Demonstrate knowledge of the population served.
Certified Peer Support Specialist.
Valid driver's license.
Must have North Carolina Peer Support Certification, current certification must be maintained.

Responsibilities

Promotes wellness management strategies, which includes delivering manualized interventions (e.g., Wellness Recovery Action Planning or Illness Management and Recovery).
Assists beneficiaries in developing psychiatric advance directives.
Assists with behavioral and substance abuse treatment interventions.
Models recovery values, attitudes, beliefs, and personal action to encourage wellness and resilience.
Provides consultation to team members to assist in understanding of recovery and the role of the Peer Support Specialists, promoting a culture in which beneficiaries’ points of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected, and integrated into treatment.
Participate in the initial Person-Centered Plan and its ongoing revisions and ensures the implementation of the Person-Centered Plan (PCP) if QP status.
Supports and empowers the individual to exercise his or her legal rights within the community.
Participates in a first responder on-call system available to consumers and/or his/her natural support network on a 24/7/365 basis; coordinates “first response” resources according to consumer needs and the PCP.
Represent the company in a positive manner, reflective of the company’s mission, at all times.
Ensures confidentiality regarding sensitive and protected information.
Ensures individual rights to privacy and protected health information for the person supported.
Maintain required records such as documentation of progress notes and ensure timely and accurate compliance of the medical records according to the record service manual.
Accurately documents all billable encounters into Southeastern Integrated Care’s EMR (electronic medical record) system within 24 hours. Any corrections will be entered within 24 hours of being notified.
Other duties as assigned.
In addition, the employee must participate in all required training and education as mandated by the specific service line and clinical coverage policy.