Peer Specialist

CommonSpirit Health • Omaha, NE

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About The Position

The Peer Specialist provides support, encouragement, and guidance to individuals using personal lived experience with mental health or substance use challenges. The role involves active listening, sharing personal recovery experiences, and offering practical strategies to help individuals manage challenges and pursue their goals. The specialist supports recovery-based services, self-advocacy, community integration, and individuals’ autonomy while respecting their confidentiality, rights, and dignity.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• Personal experience with mental health challenges.
• Experience coping successfully with life events despite having a mental health challenge.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Empathy and compassion.
• Demonstrated commitment to personal recovery.

Nice To Haves

• Experience as a Peer Support Specialist or in a psychiatric or human services setting.

Responsibilities

• Help individuals set and achieve their own goals.
• Maintain high standards of personal conduct and conduct oneself in a manner that fosters personal recovery.
• Teach and role-model the value of each individual’s recovery experience.
• Share personal recovery stories with consumers and colleagues.
• Identify and describe supports that promote recovery.
• Respect the confidentiality, rights, and dignity of individuals served.
• Advocate for patients through support of recovery-based services and assist individuals in making their own decisions when dealing with other professionals.
• Help individuals develop empowerment skills through self-advocacy and stigma-busting.
• Advocate for individuals’ full integration into the communities of their choice and promote their value to those communities, guided by the right to live in the least restrictive environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED