Peer Support Specialist - ACT Team
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 living 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, strengthen daily living skills, support housing stability, connect with resources, manage behavioral health symptoms, and work toward greater independence and personal goals. The role works closely with a multidisciplinary team, provides crisis support under the supervision of the ACT Team Lead, and participates in an on-call rotation. This is a community-based position requiring travel and work with individuals in homes, offices, 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 this community-based position.
- Support for Prairie Ridge's mission and the patients it serves.
- Proficiency in oral and written communication and documentation.
- Technology skills sufficient to use an electronic health record.
- Physical ability to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; talk and hear; walk; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; stand; reach; and climb or balance.
- Ability to infrequently lift or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift or move up to 35 pounds.
- Close, distance, and color vision and the 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 patients at home, in the office, or in community locations to support activities of daily living and help prevent the need for more intrusive levels 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 housing arrangements, develop skills for maintaining a clean home, and advocate with landlords, other tenants, and others as needed.
- Engage ACT Team members and/or caretakers in considering alternatives to emergency or hospital care.
- Participate in a collaborative multidisciplinary team and on-call rotation.
- Deliver crisis response as needed under the supervision of the ACT Team Lead.
- Work cooperatively with referral agencies.
- Assist 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 comply with CARF policies and procedures.
- Comply with agency policies, procedures, and regulatory standards.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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