Peer Specialist - CCP

Responsibilities

• Provides ongoing emotional support and guidance.
• Teaches strategies for managing behavioral health issues.
• Trains, coaches, and supports individuals who are learning social skills, activities of daily living, coping skills, and problem-solving techniques.
• Accompanies individuals to appointments to offer support, advocacy, and encouragement in discussing issues with doctors and therapists.
• Provides community living skills coaching and teaching to promote independence and self-sufficiency.
• Affords assistance in accessing public services and community resources such as financial, housing, emergency service needs, food, shelter, and clothing.
• Affords assistance in accessing support groups in the community.
• Develops Wellness and Recovery Action Plans (WRAP) with clients.
• Teaches Illness Management and Recovery skills to increase individuals’ knowledge of signs and symptoms of mental illness.
• Affords assistance in learning to budget and improving executive functioning skills.

Physical Requirements

• Requires prolonged sitting, frequent standing, bending, squatting, kneeling, and reaching above shoulder level frequently.
• Requires a typical range of hearing and manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard, telephone, photocopier, calculator, and other office equipment as needed.
• Requires repetitive use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulation.
• Requires standing, sitting, or walking for up to 8 hours or longer per workday.