Certified Peer Specialist

Job Responsibilities & Essential Functions

• Provide a safe, welcoming, and clean environment for our clients and families
• Provide trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, person-centered care based on the unique needs of clients
• Participate in our Triage, Screening & Intake process with clients to ensure fidelity of same day access to services, including the completion of necessary documentation
• Absorb and share lived experience to inspire hope and model recovery
• Assist clients and families with exploring and identifying areas of need, including housing, insurance, food assistance, educational, career, and other case management related needs
• Establish trusting, strength-based relationships with clients and support them as equals in their wellness and recovery journey
• Assist with the facilitation of our CBHC’s family and peer support services by sharing lived experience, strengths, and hope through individual, family, or group services as appropriate
• Provide clients and families with advocacy, coaching, training, support, and psychoeducation
• Complete internal and external referrals with clients based on their individualized needs, including links to peer/parent support and self-help groups, community resources, and pro-social activities
• Serve as a mentor, coach, advocate, and wellness liaison while honoring the client’s voice, choice, culture, identity, and chosen pathway of recovery
• Support clients in identifying goals, developing or updating wellness plans when appropriate, and building skills to sustain recovery
• Absorb and share lived experience to inspire hope and model recovery
• Support clients in navigating systems within schools & community as appropriate
• Engage in effective coordination of care across health and behavioral health services to facilitate wellness and recovery of the whole person, including outreach and engagement, and after-care planning
• Utilize evidence-based interventions, including motivational interviewing skills to empower clients and develop person-centered service plans as appropriate
• Serve as a community educator by providing psychoeducation to relevant community providers
• Deliver services in community-based, outpatient, home, workplace, crisis, diversionary, or remote settings when safe and appropriate
• Provide temporary transportation support when available through the organization and when used to support essential peer, medical, behavioral health, or community-based appointments
• Maintain record-keeping as required by CFS, funding sources, and accreditation authorities
• Participate in all supervision and training activities as required by CFS, funding sources, and accreditation authorities

Benefits

Language Differential! (eligible languages include: Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish or ASL)

Pay

$1 per hour

Schedule

MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-5:30PM or 10AM-6:30PM with one late night (11:30AM-8PM)