Recovery Mentor/Peer Support Specialist - Part Time

Responsibilities

• Provide peer counseling, mentoring and support to program participants
• Facilitate participants in development of self-advocacy skills
• Provide expertise and consultation from a mental health consumer’s perspective to program staff
• Work alongside program participants to help identify, understand and combat stigma and discrimination against people with mental illness
• Collaborate with team to ensure client rights
• Increase participant awareness of and involvement in consumer self-help programs and consumer advocacy organizations, including Bridges Community Center
• Work with the referring case manager/service facilitator to coordinate specific services designed to assist participants with goal achievement
• Aid in the provision of program services as established by the treatment/recovery plan
• Offer help and supports to assist participants in obtaining the necessities of daily living to maximize the participant’s quality of life as established on the treatment/recovery plan
• Provide medication compliance monitoring, symptom management/supportive psychotherapy and individual skills developments and enhancement services with participants as established in treatment/recovery plan

Qualifications

• Minimum of a High School Diploma required
• Certification as Peer Support Specialist preferred
• Lived experience with a mental health diagnosis or addiction
• Ability to effectively communicate, both written and verbally, in the English language
• Reliable transportation and valid driver’s license with good driving record
• Own auto insurance with at least 100,000/300,000/100,000 coverage
• Ability to maintain records and document case notes daily
• Ability to give and accept feedback as a part of a team
• Ability to traverse within the workspace and community frequently
• Willingness to learn and work with the treatment philosophies
• Bilingual in Spanish a plus