Peer Specialist - ACCS
About The Position
Eliot is seeking a Peer Specialist for its Adult Community Clinical Services (ACCS) division. ACCS provides clinically focused, evidence-based interventions to adults with severe and persistent mental illness. Services are person-centered and delivered by a multidisciplinary team in residential or community-based settings. The Peer Specialist works with clients in both settings, supporting mental health recovery and building lasting relationships with the people served and ACCS team members. The role promotes autonomy, self-advocacy, recovery, hope, and empowerment. The Peer Specialist collaborates with clients and team members to ensure that each person’s perspective, preferences, and choices guide care, including participation in treatment planning and transitions across services.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Personal experience receiving mental health services, self-knowledge to manage mental illness, and an established recovery process.
- Must be a Certified Peer Specialist or complete certification within six months of hire.
- Valid Massachusetts driver’s license.
Responsibilities
- Empower people with mental illness to exercise autonomy in all aspects of their lives.
- Help people identify choices and develop self-advocacy skills.
- Collaborate with team members to include each person’s perspective, recognize preferences, and maximize personal choices.
- Provide training and consultation to staff to support understanding of people’s perspectives, as needed.
- Guide people through their recovery journeys.
- Provide advocacy, support, and education during intake and transitions across services and toward independence.
- Help people identify personal methods of recovery and develop self-management plans for their experiences of mental illness.
- Promote hope and empowerment through meetings and support with people served.
- Participate in developing treatment plans and encourage people to communicate their personal recovery goals.
- Ensure services are culturally competent, strengths-based, recovery-based, rehabilitation-focused, and inclusive of personal preferences.
- Keep each person at the center of care and ensure interventions are consistent with their preferences.
Benefits
- Paid vacation, sick time, and holidays.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans for benefit-eligible positions.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Discounted fitness services and access to childcare resources.
- Company-paid life and accidental death insurance.
- Ongoing training, career advancement programs, tuition reimbursement, and leadership development.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
