Youth Peer Support Specialist/Trainee - Children, Youth, & Family Mobile Crisis Team - Wed-Sat 12PM-10:30PM

Frontier Behavioral Health•Spokane Valley, WA

21d•Remote

About The Position

Frontier Behavioral Health (FBH) is seeking a Youth Peer Support Specialist/Trainee to join their Children, Youth, & Family Mobile Crisis Team. This non-profit organization has a long-standing presence in Spokane and focuses on providing evidence-based treatment for behavioral health issues across all age groups. As a Trauma-Informed Care Organization, FBH is dedicated to client recovery and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives. The Children, Youth, and Family Mobile Crisis Team operates 24/7, 365 days a year, providing crisis services to children and youth. This specialized team offers rapid response, assessment, crisis intervention, supportive counseling, and coordination of community services, including engagement and treatment. The role involves outreach to homes, hospitals, schools, correctional facilities, and any location where children, youth, and families are experiencing a crisis. The Youth Peer Support Specialist will work with children and youth in their homes and communities, focusing on their strengths, age, and cultural heritage to prevent hospitalization, incarceration, or out-of-home placement. Close communication with team members and other staff is essential to ensure high-quality services. Peer Support Services are designed to promote recovery, self-advocacy, development of natural supports, maintenance of community living skills, and self-sufficiency.

Requirements

Self-identify as an individual who during their childhood and/or experienced emotional and behavioral challenges and engaged in behavioral health services and have been in recovery for one or more years.
Certified Peer Support Specialist or Certified Peer Support Specialist Trainee Credential from the WA State Department of Health OR: If an Applicant does not have an active or pending Certified Peer Support Specialist or Certified Peer Support Specialist Trainee Credential from the WA State Department of Health, then must apply for the Certified Peer Support Specialist TRAINEE credential within 90 days of start date.
High School diploma or equivalent
Must have an unrestricted and valid driver’s license, be able to pass a motor vehicle screening and driving test, have active car insurance, and be willing to use their personal vehicle in the course of work.
Ability to communicate effectively in written and verbal form
Ability to work in a cooperative and collaborative manner as a team member with program participants.
Ability to work with individuals from diverse cultures.
Daily travel between locations is required.
The ability to drive a vehicle, traverse distances up to several city blocks and on various terrains, navigate stairs, get in and out of vehicles frequently is required.
Daily use of a computer is required.
May be required to lift 10 - 20 pounds.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with the structure of inpatient behavioral health care facilities preferred.
Two years' experience working in a community behavioral health setting.

Responsibilities

Provide targeted support services and assist in the provision of a system of care that is child-centered with the needs of the child and family to assist in preventing hospitalization, incarceration, and/or out of home placement.
Work with children and youth in their homes and communities focusing on their strengths as well as the youth’s age and cultural heritage.
Ensure children and youth have a voice in their family’s acute crisis and stabilization plan.
Serve as a peer advocate to help empower children, youth and families in gaining the knowledge and skills necessary to support stabilizing the crisis.
Assist other professionals in the development of treatment interventions and stabilizations for those in an acute crisis situation.
Provide supportive services, drawing on common experiences as a peer, providing on-going support to all, clients including children and youth for Child and Youth positions, by encouraging them to regain hope in, and control over, their own lives, and to be active participants in resolving their crisis.
Identify services and activities that promote recovery by instilling hope and experiences which lead to meaning and purpose and which decrease stigma.
Promote personal responsibility for recovery as the individual client or mental health service defines recovery.
Serve as an advocate and provide information and peer support in a range of settings.
Participate in a multi-disciplinary team approach to provide support and stabilization services to individuals in a manner appropriate to the individual client, their developmental level supportive of their culture.
Ensure the individual and their family are heard and their needs are addressed and met.
Engage with individuals prior to discharge from an emergency department, medical admittance, incarceration and participate (as appropriate) in discharge planning and assisting families as they transition into the community and back to their families.
Maintain close communication with MRRCT team members and other clinical and administrative staff to ensure the highest quality of services is delivered to the individuals and their support systems.
Assist individuals in need or in times of crisis by finding appropriate resources for stabilization in the least restrictive environment appropriate.
Develop and maintain linkage with community resources that benefit the identified population served.
Maintain client records and all other required documentation in a timely and confidential manner, in accordance with agency policies and practices.
Requires travel to see clients in the community and travel between work sites either via FBH owned Vehicles and/or personal vehicle.
Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

Accrue up to 26 days of PTO in the first year of employment
9 Paid Federal Holidays
Extended Sick Leave
Paid Sick and Safe Time
Compressed Workweek option (for some positions) resulting in up to additional 26 days off per year
Medical
Dental
Vision
403b plan including standard 3% employer contribution plus an additional 3% employer match
Flexible Spending Accounts
Company paid Life Insurance (starts the first of the month following 6 months from date of hire)
Signing Bonus
No-cost licensure supervision for those pursuing clinical licensure
Federal and State Loan Forgiveness Program for qualifying Programs
Reimbursement of License/Certification application fee that is required for the position
Free Employee Assistance Program
Staff Discounts at various FBH partners throughout Spokane