Peer Support Specialist - ACT Team

Prairie Ridge Integrated Behavioral Healthcare • Marshalltown, IA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Prairie Ridge Integrated Behavioral Healthcare is hiring a Peer Support Specialist for its new Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team serving the Marshalltown area. ACT is a team-based approach to supporting adults with serious and persistent mental illness by bringing treatment and practical support into their homes and community settings. The Peer Support Specialist provides practical support and advocacy to individuals receiving ACT services, helping them manage everyday challenges, build independence, strengthen daily living skills, support housing stability, connect with resources, and manage behavioral health symptoms. The role works collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team, provides crisis support under the ACT Team Lead’s supervision, and participates in the on-call rotation. This is a community-based position involving travel and work in patients’ homes, the office, and other community locations.

Requirements

• Lived experience accessing mental health services for oneself (required).
• Experience providing services to individuals with severe and persistent behavioral health needs.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule, including evenings and/or weekends if necessary.
• Ability to travel for a community-based job.
• Proficiency in oral and written communication and documentation.
• Technology skills sufficient to use an electronic health record.
• Support for Prairie Ridge’s mission and the patients it serves.
• Physical ability to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and talk or hear regularly.
• Physical ability to walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl frequently; stand, reach with hands and arms, and climb or balance often.
• Ability to infrequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds.
• Close, distance, and color vision and ability to adjust focus.

Nice To Haves

• Associate degree in Social Work, Human Services, or another human-service-related field preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct mental health and basic living support to help prevent the need for a more intrusive level of care.
• Provide support and advocacy for an assigned group of patients.
• Coordinate and monitor activities of daily living.
• Support patients with behavioral health symptom management.
• Help patients locate housing, maintain current housing, develop skills to keep a clean home, and advocate with landlords or other tenants as needed.
• Engage ACT Team members and/or caretakers in considering alternatives to emergency or hospital care.
• Participate in a collaborative multidisciplinary team and the on-call rotation.
• Deliver crisis response as needed under the supervision of the ACT Team Lead.
• Work cooperatively with referral agencies.
• Help patients with paperwork and entitlement applications.
• Participate in patient-centered comprehensive assessments at admission and annually thereafter.
• Treat individuals with dignity and respect while maintaining confidentiality, professionalism, and objectivity.
• Maintain HIPAA and 42 CFR confidentiality requirements and regulations as outlined in CARF policies and procedures.
• Comply with agency policies, procedures, and regulatory standards.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Associate degree