Peer Specialist (Leon)

About the role

Apalachee Center, Inc. is best known for helping individuals and families of North Florida succeed in recovering from emotional, psychiatric, and substance abuse crises. A peer specialist uses his or her lived experience to serve as a mentor to provide support for persons with severe persistent mental illness and/or substance use disorder. This role will promote hope and set person-centered recovery-oriented goals. The role is non-clinical and does not include treatment, assessment, and/or clinical evaluations of peers. It involves developing a relationship of trust that builds peers’ resilience, hope, recovery skills, and connects them to treatment services.

Responsibilities

• Assist peers by using tools such as Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) to help peers discover safe wellness tools and create a crisis/post-crisis plan.
• Accomplish through regular meetings to help peers identify their own strengths and support them in using those strengths to communicate goals to staff and clinicians.
• Assist peers in working with their case manager and other clinician/prescriber in determining the steps to take to achieve personal goals and self-directed recovery through individual and/or group settings.
• Support peers in finding and developing self-directed recovery goals by providing skill building based on personal strength, supports, and resources to aid them in achieving those goals.
• Role model competency in recovery, resiliency, wellness strategies, and other techniques to peers as well as coworkers and other staff.
• Share your own personal recovery journey story to role model the value of recovery and teach peers appropriate self-advocacy to help peers sustain recovery success.
• Complete documentation and other paperwork accurately within 48 hours of service delivery and route to supervisor approval.
• Meet service productivity standard of at least 62.5% (or 5 out of 8 work hours) for the provision of peer services, supported by appropriate clinical record documentation that meets Clinical Record Handbook specifications and Agency business/clinical ethics standards.

Benefits

Apalachee Center, Inc. offers competitive benefits for our full-time positions to include:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Basic life insurance
• Long-term disability
• Paid time off
• And more