Jobs · Maine

Intentional Peer Support Specialist- Mayo Regional Hospital

Sweetser · Dover-Foxcroft, ME · 2 mo ago
$20–$21/hrFull-time

About the role

Join Sweetser as the Intentional Peer Support Specialist, working out of Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. Monday-Friday Schedule.

Responsibilities

  • Applies the tools developed in their own recovery as well as the philosophy and values of Intentional Peer Support to build a connection, consider world view, maintain mutuality, and move towards a new way of being within the new relationship being built with the individual.
  • Collaborates, coaches, and challenges individuals in viewing life's challenges as an opportunity for growth and change within each individual's recovery process.
  • Fully understands and is able to actively implement the three principles and four tasks of Intentional Peer Support.
  • Models relationship building, based on the four tasks of peer support, with participants, volunteers and colleagues.
  • Fully understands and is able to actively implement the Eight Dimensions of Wellness as described by SAMHSA.
  • Models the attributes of respect, trust, sensitivity and confidentiality to participants, volunteers and colleagues.
  • Provides support and models healthy relationships.
  • Follows best practices and guidelines established by the Peer Support in Emergency Departments program.
  • Performs all other duties as assigned.

Experience

  • Lived experience of Recovery with Mental Illness, Trauma or Substance Use and is willing to self-identify with peers on this basis in the community.
  • Paid, or unpaid, peer support experience preferred.

Knowledge and skills

  • Demonstrates understanding of Intentional Peer Support within 90 days of hire.
  • Demonstrates knowledge of personal Recovery.
  • Ability to be "emotionally present"; recognize when you are not, seek support, and communicate this to the assigned manager.
  • Ability to work with diverse populations and accept differences in perspective and values.
  • Basic computer skills, including receiving and sending emails and data entry to spreadsheets.

Educational requirements

  • High School diploma or equivalent

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