Employment Peer Mentor

At Easterseals PORT Health (ESPH), our mission is rooted in empowering individuals and strengthening communities. As an Employment Peer Mentor, you’ll play a critical role in carrying out that mission by helping people with mental illness, substance abuse, and behavioral health challenges, providing services and expertise that professional training cannot replicate.

About the role

The Employment Peer Mentor is a fully integrated team member who provides highly individualized services in the community and promotes the self-determination and shared decision-making abilities of beneficiaries. This role influences change and shapes futures by helping people reach their full potential.

• Provides coaching, mentoring, and consultation to individuals served to promote recovery, self-advocacy, and self-direction.
• Promotes wellness management strategies, including delivering manualized interventions (e.g., Wellness Recovery Action Planning or Illness Management and Recovery) and employment services.
• Assists people receiving services in developing psychiatric advance directives.
• Models recovery values, attitudes, beliefs, and personal action to encourage wellness and resilience.
• Provides consultation to team members to assist in understanding recovery and the role of the Employment Peer Mentor, promoting a culture where beneficiaries’ points of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected, and integrated into treatment.
• Serves as an active member of the employment team, equivalent to other team members, including assisting with the Person-Centered Planning process.
• Supports and empowers individuals to exercise their legal rights within the community.
• Provides employment services interventions and case coordination as needed.
• Prepares and submits documentation accurately and within prescribed timelines.
• Participates in peer review.
• Successfully participates in the DMH-approved IPS training and provides services according to the service definition and IPS Fidelity Model.

Employment Peer Mentor works as part of a team. While there is daily office-based work, the bulk of the work is in the community, including streets, homes, shelters, jails, and hospitals. Services are delivered when and where individuals need them.

Requirements

• A minimum of a High School diploma or equivalent accredited by the appropriate state department of education is required.
• Must be a NC Certified Peer Support Specialist or willing to be certified within 6 months of hire.
• Must be or have been a recipient of mental health services.
• Must have a current, unrestricted, state-appropriate driver’s license and vehicle insurance.
• Must have reliable transportation that allows movement throughout the program delivery area.

Travel is required. Community-based travel within the assigned territory is part of the role.

Benefits

• Competitive hourly rate: $19-21/hour.
• Generous paid time off and paid holidays.
• Full benefits package including Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits.
• Company-paid Life and Disability Insurance.
• 403(b) Retirement Plan.
• Employee Assistance Program and legal services support.
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) qualifying employer.

About Easterseals PORT Health

Easterseals PORT Health is a trustworthy and compassionate partner, providing exceptional services in disability, mental health, and substance use to help our neighbors live their best lives. Purpose, dedication, and empathy drive our in-person and telehealth service delivery. Our 2,600-member team provides more than 10.2 million hours of meaningful support to 40,200 kids, adults, and families in 11,000 home, facility, and community locations across North Carolina and Virginia. Easterseals PORT Health is an Inclusive Culture, Different Voices, Embracing Potential, Authentic Self, and Learning and Growing (IDEAL) organization.