Mount Clemens MI - Full-time

Hope Network•Mount Clemens, MI

38d•$15 - $18•Hybrid

About The Position

This position requires working in the community and performing home visits. The Certified Peer Support Specialist functions as part of a team to provide flexible services aimed at supporting persons served. They provide expertise based on their own personal experience with mental illness, often acting as a consultant to team members to help them understand the perspectives of those served. This role promotes recovery-based, person-centered, and culturally competent practices and requires a high degree of personal integrity.

Requirements

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
Stages of Change
Trauma Informed Care
Integrated Care

Responsibilities

Embrace and support the concepts of recovery to enable the population served to reach their full potential.
Create awareness of powers and self-worth in others, engage persons served, and monitor their well-being.
Participate in the Family/Guardian/Friends Liaison Program activities to build a communication network with the natural supports of persons served.
Participate in building community relations and social networks that provide support, friendship, love, and hope.
Provide linking with transportation resources related to personal care, community living supports, employment, and planned activities.
Facilitate access to community resources and social support networks for persons served.
Document progress, or lack of progress, towards goals of persons served at the close of each shift.
Ensure 100% of routine/customary daily, monthly, quarterly, and/or annual internal data reports are submitted on time.
Be knowledgeable of contract requirements for the program/service and the Program Fidelity Model.