Peer Specialist (Drop-In Center)

Overview

Apalachee Center, Inc. is best known for helping individuals and families of North Florida succeed in recovering from emotional, psychiatric, and substance abuse crises. Apalachee Center, Inc. provides comprehensive behavioral health services across 8 counties (Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor, and Wakulla Counties).

Essential/Core Job-specific Duties And Responsibilities

• Accomplish through regular meetings to help clients identify their own strengths and support them in using those strengths to communicate goals to staff and clinicians.
• Aid clients in working with their case manager and other clinician/prescriber in determining the steps to take to achieve the personal goals and self-directed recovery through individual and/or group settings.
• Support clients in finding and developing the self-directed recovery goals by providing skill building, based on personal strength, supports and resources to aid them in order to achieve those goals.
• Role model competency in recovery, resiliency, wellness strategies and other techniques to the clients as well as coworkers and other staff.
• Share own personal recovery journey story to role model the value of recovery and teach clients appropriate self-advocacy to help clients sustain recovery success.
• Completes documentation and other paperwork accurately within 48 hours of service delivery and routed to supervisor approval.
• Mets service productivity standard of at least 62.5% (or 5 out of 8 work hours) for the provision of peer services which are supported by appropriate clinical record documentation which meet Clinical Record Handbook specifications and Agency business/clinical ethics standards.