Mount Clemens MI

Hope Network Careers•Mt Clemens, MI

13d•Hybrid

About The Position

This position requires working in the community and performing home visits. The candidate must be Certified as a Peer Support Specialist (mental health), not a Recovery Specialist (addiction) or Coach. The Certified Peer Support Specialist functions as part of a team to provide flexible services aimed at supporting persons served, directly or indirectly. They provide expertise that professional training cannot replicate due to their own personal experience with Mental Illness and often act as a consultant to other team members, helping them understand the persons’ served perspectives and subjective experiences. This position has a high degree of personal integrity, generates positive energy, and makes a difference every day. It promotes recovery-based, person-centered, and culturally competent practices.

Requirements

Be willing to become a Certified Peer Support (if the certification has not been completed).
Candidate must be Certified as a Peer Support Specialist (mental health) not a Recovery Specialist (addiction) or Coach.
Firsthand knowledge of characteristics and conditions experienced by persons served.
Must complete and achieve ACT 101 training by DCH.
Credentialing & Privileging includes General ACT, Group Therapy, Co-occurring Treatment, and Peer Services Specialist Conference.

Nice To Haves

Two years’ experience
Concepts of Motivational Interviewing
Integrated Duel Diagnosis Treatment
Family Psycho Education
Seeking Safety, Family Psycho Education
Stages of Change
Trauma Informed Care
Integrated Care

Responsibilities

Embrace the concepts of recovery and expects all personnel to follow the principles of recovery; supports and encourage this concept to enable the population we work with to reach their full potential.
Create in others an awareness of their powers and self-worth.
Engage persons-served and monitor their wellbeing.
Participate in the Family/Guardian/Friends Liaison Program activities, building a friendly and open communication network with the natural supports of persons-served.
Participate in building community relations and social networks that provide support, friendship, love and hope and ongoing peer review of clinical documentation.
Provide linking with transportation resources related to personal care, community living supports, employment and/or planned activities.
Facilitate, for persons-served, access to community resources and social support networks.
Document on the progress, or lack of progress, towards goals of persons-served at the close of each shift.
Make sure 100% of the routine/customary daily, monthly, quarterly, and/or annual internal data reports (required from Rehabilitation assistants) are submitted on time.
Know the contract requirements for your program/service.
Knowledgeable of the Program Fidelity Model.