Peer Support Specialist

Acadia Healthcare•Scotts Valley, CA

9d•$24 - $27•Onsite

About The Position

We are hiring a compassionate and experienced Peer Support Specialist to work with our clients at The Camp Recovery Center in Scotts Valley! This is a key role whose primary goal is to provide a safe, nurturing environment for our adult clients who have co-occurring disorders (substance use disorder and mental health disorders). The Camp is a 74-bed treatment center providing services to adults on both an inpatient and outpatient basis.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent is required.
Three or more years' experience working in a behavioral health setting is required.
Certification as a Peer Specialist
CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered byfacility).

Nice To Haves

Two or more years’ experience in an acute inpatient behavioral health setting preferred.
Training on personal advocacy, engagement, recovery and resiliency principles, communitysupports/resources, effective use of sharing life experiences and parenting skills, as applicable.
First aid may be required based on state or facility.

Responsibilities

Provide a wide range of activities to assist patients in exercising control over their own lives and theirrecovery or resilience-building process.
Provide peer mentoring or coaching, including personalized and tailored services and supports to meetthe preferences and unique needs of the person/family and support recovery goals/planning throughassisting and supporting goal setting and use of decision-making strategies.
Provide recovery resources
Facilitate and lead recovery, educational and support groups. Educational activities include, asapplicable, self-advocacy, wellness, life skills, goal setting, parenting skills and decision-making skills.
Advocate with and for the person and their family.
Complete documentation of group and/or individual interventions in an accurate manner and filewithin 24 hours of service.
Complete documentation of assessments in a timely and accurate manner.
Participate in weekly meetings and supervisions to enhance communication and efficacy of treatment.
Actively contributes to PI/QI efforts participating in problem-solving, root cause analysis and/orassisting in collection of data.
Demonstrate a positive, empathetic and professional attitude towards customers always. Whenpatient needs are not met, acknowledge and work to resolve complaints. Recognize that patient safetyis a top priority.
Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.