Peer Specialist

CHI Health • Omaha, NE

3d • $17 - $24

About The Position

As a Peer Specialist, you provide support, encouragement, and guidance to individuals by drawing on your own lived experience with mental health or substance use challenges. You engage with individuals through active listening, sharing your recovery journey, and offering practical strategies for managing challenges and achieving personal goals. The role calls for strong communication and interpersonal skills, empathy, compassion, and a demonstrated commitment to your own recovery.

You help individuals set and achieve their own goals, maintain high standards of personal conduct, and model the value of each person’s recovery experience. You share personal recovery stories, identify supports that promote recovery, and conduct yourself in a way that fosters your own recovery. You respect the confidentiality, rights, and dignity of the individuals served. You also advocate for recovery-based services, support individuals in making their own decisions, promote self-advocacy and stigma-busting, and encourage full integration in the community of each individual’s choice and the right to live in the least restrictive environment.

Requirements

• High school graduate or GED.
• Experience with personal mental health challenges.
• Experience coping successfully with life events despite having a mental health challenge.

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 teach and role-model the value of every individual’s recovery experience.
• Conduct oneself in a manner that fosters one’s own recovery.
• Share personal recovery stories with consumers and colleagues and 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.
• Develop empowerment skills through self-advocacy and stigma-busting.
• Advocate for individuals’ full integration in the community of their choice and promote their inherent value to those communities.
• Promote the principle that individuals have the right to live in the least restrictive environment.

What This Job Offers

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