Lead Certified Peer

YMCA Of Greater Seattle • Seattle, WA

21h • $28 - $31

About The Position

The Certified Peer Lead provides strengths based peer support to individuals and families by drawing on lived experience, while also supervising and supporting peer staff. This role carries a reduced caseload and provides weekly individual supervision, ensuring staff deliver high quality, responsive services that meet the diverse mental health and cultural needs of youth and families. The Certified Peer Lead oversees documentation and compliance with state, county, and contractual requirements; supports quality assurance, audits, and corrective actions; and represents the YMCA in interdisciplinary and community settings. This position partners closely with program leadership, internal YMCA teams, and external systems such as courts and probation to meet program and community needs, with a flexible schedule to accommodate clients.
This position is at the Social Impact Center Y, the social services branch of YMCA of Greater Seattle (YGS). The mission of the Social Impact Center Y is to accelerate young people’s ability to build safe, successful, and happy lives. Every year, we serve 5,000 children, youth, young adults, and families across King County with programs that aim to strengthen young people’s ability to develop to their fullest potential through four strategies: reducing risk factors; navigating systems towards successful life transition; ensuring stability, safety and wellness in times of crisis; and building competencies and social capital. The Social Impact Center Y’s programs include housing, behavioral health, foster care licensing, violence prevention, education, and employment. Many of the young people we serve have had involvement in the foster care, criminal justice system, and/or homelessness systems.

Requirements

• Must be a current WA State Certified Peer Counselor plus other applicable education, training, and experience, which provide the knowledge, abilities, and skills necessary to perform effectively in the position will be considered.
• 2+ years of experience working with high risk, systems involved (i.e. homeless, justice, behavioral health, foster care) youth and/or young adults or equivalent experience providing community-based services to diverse populations (language, culture, race, physical ability, sexual orientation, etc).
• Experience and knowledge with youth behavior management and child abuse prevention.
• Intermediate computer skills and experience with Microsoft Office suite.
• Ability to visit sites and community organizations.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of and previous experience with diverse populations (language, culture, race, physical ability, sexual orientation, etc.).
• Ability to speak any language in addition to English may be helpful.

Responsibilities

• Carry a caseload of up to 50% of an FTE for your team.
• Supervise the WISe Peer Support Specialists.
• Provides weekly individual supervision with each assigned supervisee.
• Complete the supervisor’s peer training course.
• Be a certified peer registered as an affiliated counselor with the state.
• Maintain WA State peer and supervision credentials.
• Monitors staff documentation and individual case records by utilizing the reports in the electronic health record, periodically spot-checking case records from each staff and ensuring timely documentation of services and productivity.
• Reports all critical incidents and adheres to YMCA program rules and procedures.
• Represents the YMCA at interdisciplinary community meetings.
• Ensures all participants served receive high quality and effective services.
• Ensures urgency, intensity and frequency of services calibrated to the youth and family’s individual cultural background and mental health needs, and that families are bridged to long term community support.
• Ensure staff interface and effectively work with courts, probation department, and other agencies and professionals, and that they develop successful treatment programs for various types of individuals.
• Conducts quality assurance (QA) activities so that all services are delivered and documented by WAC and King County contractual requirements and participates in formal QA review process.
• Supports in the preparation of county or state audits and responds to corrective action post audit.
• Partners with leaders in other YMCA programs and divisions to build community across the Y and to ensure participants are receiving relevant and effective services.
• Flexible schedule to include evenings and possible weekends to meet the needs of clients.
• Assist the participants assigned to the caseloads for Peer Support Specialists and Care Coordinators as necessary.
• Assist in facilitating WISe meetings as needed.
• Schedule weekly in-person sessions with participants assigned to Peer Support Specialists as necessary
• Temporarily ensure that all responsibilities of the Care Coordinator for assigned participants are adequately addressed as necessary.
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Membership to the YMCA of Greater Seattle for you and your household
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life insurance
• Retirement with 12% employer contributions after 2 years of services
• Free access to mental health resources
• Rapidly accruing paid time off (PTO)
• Discounts on qualifying YMCA of Greater Seattle childcare, day camp, overnight camp and outdoor leadership programs. 25% for part-time staff, 50% for full-time staff.
• Direct care staff in the Social Impact Center receive monthly personal Wellness days in addition to existing PTO and Paid Holiday benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees