Peer Specialist

Claratel Behavioral Health • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

Claratel Behavioral Health is an innovative, community-based behavioral health and developmental disabilities services organization offering a full range of mental health, developmental disabilities, and substance use disorder services to underserved individuals. As a public, not-for-profit organization, Claratel Behavioral Health operates in more than 20 locations in DeKalb County, Georgia, with a diverse workforce of more than 400 direct-care and support staff.
If you are passionate about driving change in behavioral health and developmental services and are eager to work in an environment that values innovation and inclusivity, Claratel Behavioral Health is the place for you. Here, your work is impactful, your growth is prioritized, and your well-being is supported. Together, we can forge pathways to a healthier future for all.
Claratel Behavioral Health is an innovative, community-based behavioral health and developmental disabilities services organization offering a full range of mental health, developmental disabilities, and substance use disorder services to underserved individuals. As a public, not-for-profit organization, Claratel Behavioral Health operates in more than 20 locations in DeKalb County, Georgia, with a diverse workforce of more than 400 direct-care and support staff.
If you are passionate about driving change in behavioral health and developmental services and are eager to work in an environment that values innovation and inclusivity, Claratel Behavioral Health is the place for you. Here, your work is impactful, your growth is prioritized, and your well-being is supported. Together, we can forge pathways to a healthier future for all.
Make a Difference. Empower Lives. Promote Stability.
Are you passionate about helping individuals who have been adversely impacted by gun violence? Join our team as a Forensic Peer Mentor and use your lived experience to provide compassionate, hands-on support victims and perpetrators who have experienced gun violence. Forensic Peers may work with all ages & be responsible for providing individual peer support and & facilitating skills groups.
What You’ll Do:
The Forensic Peer Mentor provides non-clinical professional and specialized support services to clients to assist them in successfully navigating the intersections between the Criminal Justice, Behavioral Health, and Community Resource systems.
Operate from the perspective that everyone who has lived experience with mental health and/or substance use challenges has the capacity to recover and successfully live lives of meaning and purpose in the communities of their choice.
Use a person-centered approach to engagement, with justice-system involved clients with mental health, substance use, and co-occurring conditions.
Provide trauma-informed, culturally competent direct services.
Serve as role models and share problem-solving and recovery-focused skills.
Perform a wide range of tasks aimed at creating mutual relationships with peers in hopes that the peers will regain control over their lives and over their recovery process
Meet with, interview and observe clients, assessing needs, and identifying barriers to accessing community resources and develop strategies to overcome them.
Provides support, including linkage and assistance in developing transportation plans to community services to facilitate access to treatment and supportive services.
Additional duties as assigned by the Clinical Director.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED
• Certified Peer Specialist (CPS-MH or CPS-AD) or ability to obtain within 12 months
• Lived experience with mental health or addiction recovery
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, and technology skills
• Reliable transportation & valid GA driver’s license
• Must have the ability to work with an interdisciplinary team and clients.
• Able to maintain ongoing working relationships with community partners.
• Must be a team player, organized, dependable, efficient, responsible, disciplined and self-motivated.
• Ability to work and communicate effectively with diverse populations.
• Pre-employment drug screening may be required.
• The selected applicant will be subject of an FBI Criminal History Record Check, and the applicant has the right to challenge the contents of their Criminal History Record Information, should they choose to do so.
• This employer participates in E-Verify.
• Pre-employment drug screening and successful completion of a criminal history background check is required.
• Claratel Behavioral Health participates in E-Verify (Company ID: 226305)
• Claratel Behavioral Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• Candidates who may require an accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law to perform the essential functions of this job are encouraged to contact Human Resources at [email protected].

Nice To Haves

• 1+ year of experience in behavioral health, case management, or advocacy preferred

Responsibilities

• The Forensic Peer Mentor provides non-clinical professional and specialized support services to clients to assist them in successfully navigating the intersections between the Criminal Justice, Behavioral Health, and Community Resource systems.
• Operate from the perspective that everyone who has lived experience with mental health and/or substance use challenges has the capacity to recover and successfully live lives of meaning and purpose in the communities of their choice.
• Use a person-centered approach to engagement, with justice-system involved clients with mental health, substance use, and co-occurring conditions.
• Provide trauma-informed, culturally competent direct services.
• Serve as role models and share problem-solving and recovery-focused skills.
• Perform a wide range of tasks aimed at creating mutual relationships with peers in hopes that the peers will regain control over their lives and over their recovery process
• Meet with, interview and observe clients, assessing needs, and identifying barriers to accessing community resources and develop strategies to overcome them.
• Provides support, including linkage and assistance in developing transportation plans to community services to facilitate access to treatment and supportive services.
• Additional duties as assigned by the Clinical Director.

What This Job Offers

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