Certified Peer Support Specialist - Full-time
About The Position
The Certified Peer Supports Specialist functions as part of a team to provide flexible services aimed at supporting, directly or indirectly, persons served. Provides expertise that professional training cannot replicate due to his/her own personal experience with Mental Illness. They 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 person integrity, generates positive energy, and makes a difference every day. This position promotes recovery-based, person-centered, and culturally competent practices. This role requires home visits in Macomb County.
Requirements
- Certified as a Peer Support Specialist, not a Recovery Specialist or Coach.
- Must complete and achieve ACT 101 training by DCH.
- Credentialing & Privileging includes General ACT, Group Therapy, Co-occurring Treatment, and Peer Services Specialist Conference.
- Be willing to become a Certified Peer Support (if the certification has not been completed).
- Firsthand knowledge of characteristics and conditions experienced by persons served.
- Concepts of Motivational Interviewing.
- Integrated Duel Diagnosis Treatment.
- Family Psycho Education.
- Seeking Safety, Family Psycho Education.
- Stages of Change.
- Trauma Informed Care.
- Integrated Care.
Nice To Haves
- Two years’ experience preferred.
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.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision remains active
- Career pathing and growth opportunities
- Paid Training
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
