Certified Peer Support Worker - Las Cruces, NM

Candidate must live in Las Cruces, NM or surrounding area. Work at home position with extensive travel in the community.

Responsibilities

• Provides non-clinical, evidence-based peer support services, serves as a member advocate, shares coping skills, and provides recovery information for members.
• Assists members in regaining control over their own lives through individual recovery planning, wellness self-management, and strengthening resilience to improve personal health outcomes.
• Roles model competency in recovery, resiliency, and wellness practices.
• Serves as a member advocate by identifying and addressing gaps in services and supports.
• Educates providers, supporting staff, members, and families on resiliency and recovery principles, strategies, and tools.
• Facilitates a team approach to member care including with the Magellan care coordination team.
• Maintains professional responsibility to maximize supervision, respond appropriately to personal stressors that impact ability to perform job duties, and recognize crisis situations or risks to the member’s safety and respond appropriately.
• Engages members in inpatient settings to facilitate post-crisis planning, assist with transitions from different treatment settings and navigating multiple systems.
• Facilitates community participation/inclusion for members by encouraging the exploration and pursuit of community roles.
• Implements, coordinates, and monitors strategies for members and families to improve health and quality of life outcomes.
• Documents all interactions according to company standards.
• Travels to meet members within the community.

Requirements

• CPRS/CPS/CPSS/CRPS/PRSS, Peer Specialist as required by state.
• Must have or be able to obtain the National Peer Support Credential (NCPS/NCPRSS) within one year of hire.
• Must be a self-identified person in recovery who is a current or former user of mental health/substance use services and can relate to others who are now using those services.
• Must have a vehicle in good, working condition with the ability to travel within the field regularly.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Product Suite.
• Ability to make decisions that require significant analysis of solutions, and quick, original, and independent thinking.
• Knowledge of local behavioral health and community systems, wellness strategies, resiliency and recovery principles, practices, and tools, such as Wellness Recovery Action Plans (WRAP), wraparound process, and community-based peer, family and parent support organizations and services.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills and effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to represent strengths and needs of members in clinical settings.
• Ability to summarize and document findings and maintain complete and accurate records.
• Must be able to work effectively, independently and in a team, and prioritize in a fast-paced environment to meet the demands of the organization.

Qualifications

• Lived experience With Mental Health/Substance Use Recovery, Peer Specialist.
• Education - Required GED, High School Education - Preferred Associate.

Skills

• Peer Specialist.
• State Requirements - Care Mgmt.
• DL - Driver License, Valid In State.
• NCPS - National Certified Peer Specialist - Care Mgmt.

Benefits

• Salary Range Salary Minimum $41,505 Salary Maximum $62,255.
• This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data.
• Minimums and maximums may vary based on location.
• Actual pay will be adjusted based on an individual's skills, experience, education, and other job-related factors permitted by law.
• This position may be eligible for short-term incentives as well as a comprehensive benefits package.
• Magellan offers a broad range of health, life, voluntary and other benefits and perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing.
• Magellan Health, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Tobacco-free workplace.