Certified Peer Specialist - ACT

Duties And Responsibilities

• Provide peer counseling and support to validate clients' experiences.
• Have a strong dedication to recovery.
• Provide guidance and encouragement to clients to take responsibility and actively participate in their own recovery.
• Serve as a mentor to clients to promote hope and empowerment.
• Help non-mental health consumer team members, and others as appropriate, to better understand and empathize with each client's unique and subjective experience and perception.
• Provide expertise and consultation from a mental health consumer perspective to the entire team.
• Collaborate with the team to promote a team culture in which client self-determination, client decision-making in treatment planning, and protection of client rights are supported.
• Assist in the provision of ongoing assessment of clients' mental illness symptoms and clients' response to treatment.
• Assist in the provision of direct clinical services to clients on an individual, group, and family basis.
• Teach symptom-management techniques and promote personal growth and development with mental health issues and substance abuse issues.
• Assist, teach, and support clients with activities of daily living, vocational skills, accessing housing, maintaining financial supports, and utilizing buses and other transportation in the community.
• Organize and lead individual and group social and recreational activities and provide opportunities to practice social skills.
• Attend and participate in all scheduled team meetings.
• Complete all paperwork, reports, and charting contemporaneously and in an organized manner.
• Participate actively in on-going professional growth and development; maintain appropriate professional behavior and participate in appropriate supervision.
• Maintain a pattern of regular work hours.

Requirements

• Must be at least 21 years of age.
• Must have primary diagnosis of mental illness, be a current or former consumer of mental health services, must demonstrate leadership and advocacy skills, and have a strong dedication to recovery.
• Credentialed as a DHS Certified Peer Specialist.
• PREFERRED: Hold a Bachelors degree in the behavioral sciences and have 2000 hours of experience working with adults with serious persistent mental illness.
• PREFERRED: Knowledge of forensic evidenced-based practices and familiarity with criminal justice system.

Benefits

• 4 weeks accrued PTO first year of employment.
• 12 paid holidays.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance.
• Health Saving Accounts (HSA) + employer contribution and Flexible Saving Accounts (FSA).
• Tuition reimbursement and Student Loan Repayment Assistance.
• Dependent Care Account (DCA) + employer contribution.
• Reimbursement for professional licensure fees.
• Routine supervision from a Mental Health Professional, with access to licensure supervision opportunities.
• 403b retirement plan with an employer percentage match.
• Employer paid short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Bereavement and paid parental leave.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Wellness program to support employee overall health and well-being.
• Variety of discounts through ADP LifeSmart Pet insurance.
• Mileage reimbursement.
• Casual dress code.