PEER SPECIALIST (PACT/PCMHI)

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for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate. Must not include sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We need to extract content. Let's parse the posting. Summary: Peer support staff skillfully leverage their lived experience of recovery to support team-based - high-quality - accessible - and Veteran-centric primary care. This position is integrated into Primary Care Mental Health Integration (PCMHI) and enhances the team - elevates Veteran perspectives - promotes Veteran Whole Health and engagement in care - and supports Veterans in navigating the VHA continuum of care. Duty Location FT Miley - and subsequent work locations are the Santa Rosa and Oakland CBOCs. Qualifications: many details: time-in-grade, basic requirements, statutory requirements, etc. Also includes education substitution. Duties: list of duties. Work Schedule: Full-time - Monday-Friday - 8:00 am-4:30 pm Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized Virtual: This is not a virtual position Also there is Position Description/PD#, Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized, Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized, Main workplace will be FT Miley..., Promotion Potential: multi-grade career ladder. We need sections: About the role (maybe summary), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (qualifications), maybe Skills (not explicit), Benefits (none explicit), Pay (none explicit), Schedule (work schedule). We should only include sections with real content. We have About the role: summary paragraph. Responsibilities: duties list. Requirements: qualifications (including time-in-grade, basic requirements, statutory, education substitution). Could be combined as Requirements. Skills: not explicitly listed; maybe we can infer but better not to create if no specific content. So omit Skills. Benefits: none explicit (Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized, PCS: Not Authorized). That's not a benefit; it's stating none. Should we include Benefits section? The instruction: never create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It states "Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized" and "Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized". That's stating that benefits are not authorized. Is that considered stating them? It's stating they are not authorized, which is still stating something about benefits. However the instruction: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does state that relocation/recruitment incentives are not authorized, PCS not authorized. That is a statement about benefits (or lack thereof). Might be considered stating them. But we need to decide. Usually they'd want to include Benefits only if there are actual benefits like health insurance, retirement, etc. Since it's just saying not authorized, maybe better to omit Benefits section to avoid thin content. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could omit Benefits. Pay: not stated. So omit. Schedule: we have work schedule details. So include Schedule section. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Schedule. Now we need to format. Use

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  for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. We need to include duty location, etc. Let's extract About the role prose: "Peer support staff skillfully leverage their lived experience of recovery to support team-based - high-quality - accessible - and Veteran-centric primary care. This position is integrated into Primary Care Mental Health Integration (PCMHI) and enhances the team - elevates Veteran perspectives - promotes Veteran Whole Health and engagement in care - and supports Veterans in navigating the VHA continuum of care. Duty Location FT Miley - and subsequent work locations are the Santa Rosa and Oakland CBOCs." We need to keep the dash separated words? The original has "team-based - high-quality - accessible - and Veteran-centric". Might keep as is. We'll put in

  . Responsibilities: list of duties. The duties list includes many items. We'll create

  • for each duty bullet. We need to capture all duties from "Duties include - but not limited to the following:" and the list after. Let's extract list: - Participates in the service - training - consultation - and other professional activities of VA health care services and functions as a fully vested member of the multidisciplinary team - Uses personal recovery experiences to model coping techniques and recovery tolls to coach Veterans to relevant skills need for self-management of their health condition(s) and pursuit of their personal wellness - Observes behaviors that might indicate difficulty adapting or responding to treatment (e.g. - missed assessment appointments - failure to attend or maintain abstinence - risk to self or others - disruptive behavior) - completes appropriate documentation - and reports concerns to the treatment team in a timely manner - Uses ongoing individual and group meetings to teach Veterans how to identify and combat negative self-talk and overcome fears by providing a forum that allows Veteran to share their experiences - As necessary - handles crisis interventions for Veterans and addresses other emergent situations without the benefit of specific instructions - Informs Veterans about VA and community supports and resources - including how to effectively utilize them in the recovery and wellness process - Maintains a working knowledge of current trends and developments in holistic approaches in wellness and recovery by reading books - journals - and other relevant materials - Position requires operation of a motor vehicle or access to public transportation to perform assigned duties - Accompanies Veterans to appointments as needed - whether medical - housing - or other treatment plan goal appointments - either through agency vehicle or public transportation - Assists Veterans to identify resources and problem solve how to overcome barriers so that the Veterans can independently address transportation and other personal needs - Subsequent background checks may be required if treating Veterans in an institutional setting - Performs other related duties as assigned Also earlier there is description: "This Peer Specialist position may only be filled with a Veteran that meets statutory requirements that are detailed in the qualifications sectionThe Peer Specialist functions as an interdisciplinary team member - assisting physicians and other professional/non-professional personnel in a rehabilitation treatment programPeer specialists perform a variety of therapeutic and supportive tasks that include assisting Veterans in articulating their goals for recovery and personal wellness - learning - and practicing new skills - helping them monitor their progress - assisting them in their treatment - modeling effective coping techniques and self-help strategies based on the peer specialist's own recovery experience - and supporting them in advocating for themselves to obtain effective servicesThis position will serve as a community-based peer specialist within the local VA facility catchment areaThe working environment may include providing peer support services in places such as Veterans' homes - prisons - jails - treatment courts - shelters - tent encampments - street outreach - etc" We could incorporate that as prose before the list, but we need to preserve all substantive info. Could include as part of responsibilities prose before list. However instruction: Use
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      • ... etc. Now Requirements: need to include qualifications details: time-in-grade, basic requirements, statutory requirements, education substitution, etc. Also includes "Qualifications To qualify for this position - applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement - 10/12/2026." Also time-in-grade requirement details. Also basic requirements for peer specialists: statutory requirements, length of experience in recovery, important notice about veteran definition, restricted to veterans, open to certain employees, need to provide DD-214 and Peer Specialist Certification, English language proficiency, minimum grade level qualifications (GS-6 to GS-9) with specialized experience and education substitution. We need to preserve all substantive info. That's a lot. We'll need to format as prose or lists where appropriate. We can break into sub-sections? But only allowed headings are the given ones; we cannot add custom headings. So within Requirements section we can have paragraphs and lists. We need to include all details. Let's extract: - To qualify for this position - applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement - 10/12/2026. - Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-06 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-05. The grade may have been in any occupation - but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year - it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade - as required by the announcement. In this instance - you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. - Basic Requirements FOR PEER SPECIALISTS a) Statutory Requirements Section 405 of Public Law 110-387 - as codified in 38 U.S.C. 7402(b)(13) - established that to be eligible to receive appointment to a Peer Specialist position - a person must: (1) be a veteran who has recovered or is recovering from a mental health condition and (2) be certified by -(a) a not-for-profit entity engaged in peer specialist training as having met such criteria as the Secretary shall establish for a peer specialist position or (b) a State as having satisfied relevant State requirements for a peer specialist position b) Length of Experience in Recovery: must have at least 1 year of recovery from a mental health condition (mental illness and/or substance use disorder) Successful recovery is exemplified by one who manages symptoms of illness and pursues a healthy lifestyle lives independently is employed or volunteers significant time approximating at least a part-time employment schedule has meaningful relationships with family members and friends and is socially involved in the community through clubs - hobby groups - church - civic organizations or Veteran organizations in which the individual provides a service to others IMPORTANT NOTICE: Veteran is defined as a person who served in the active military - naval - air - or space service - and who was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable Restricted to VETERANS - See IMPORTANT NOTICE Open to current - permanent employees of the VA (i.e T38 - T38 Hybrid - and VCS employees on excepted appts covered by an interchange agreement) Federal employees on a Career/Career-Conditional appt. Former competitive civil service employees eligible for reinstatement Veterans eligible under VEOA - VRA - and 30% DAV Those eligible under the Employment Program for People with Disabilities and those eligible for CTAP/ICTAP NOTE: You MUST provide copies of your DD-214 and Peer Specialist Certification - with your application package ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY: In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7402(d) - No person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English You must be proficient in basic written and spoken English in order to meet the requirements of this position - MINIMUM GRADE LEVEL QUALIFICATIONS GS-6: In addition to the basic requirements - candidates must have at least one (1) year of specialized experience at the next lower graded level - which involved post-personal mental health recovery experience as a mentor providing counseling to support peers in mental health and/or addiction recovery - a recovery advocate directly involved with consumers of mental health services - a psychiatric therapy aide - or equivalent work involving in-person communication to support others in mental health recovery Your work has been closely monitored