AOT Forensic Peer Specialist-Assisted Outpatient Therapy
Listed on 2026-09-27
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Healthcare
Mental Health, Community Health
Location:
Albany,GA
Wage:
Up to: 43000.00
Department: AOT
Position Type:
Full Time
Announcement Begin Date: 9/2/2026
Pay Grade: B
Location Name: DOCO Outpatient Services
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPSPosition Title:
Forensic Peer Specialist
Position Number:
Date: 9/1/26
Employee:
Work Unit:
Multiple County:
Dougherty, Terrell, Lee
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High school diploma or GED required.
Must meet applicable requirements for peer support certification and maintain required certification throughout employment. Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) credential preferred or required as applicable to program, payer, DBHDD, and grant requirements. Forensic peer support training, certification, or demonstrated experience navigating behavioral health and justice-related systems strongly preferred.
The Forensic Peer Specialist must have lived experience relevant to recovery from mental illness, behavioral health challenges, and/or behavioral health system involvement and must demonstrate the ability to use that lived experience appropriately and intentionally to support the recovery of others.
Lived experience with justice-system involvement may be preferred when consistent with applicable certification, program, and employment requirements.
Must demonstrate knowledge of recovery principles, peer support values, self-advocacy, person-centered planning, trauma-informed approaches, community resources, behavioral health systems, and the challenges experienced by individuals with serious mental illness.
Must demonstrate the ability to maintain appropriate professional and peer boundaries and understand that the peer specialist role is distinct from clinical treatment, case management, legal representation, court monitoring, and compliance enforcement.
Must possess effective communication, engagement, documentation, advocacy, relationship-building, and organizational skills.
EQUIPMENT THAT REQUIRES SAFE AND EFFECTIVE USE:NONE
BLOODBORNE PATHOGEN CATEGORY (check one)____ Employee routinely performs tasks that involve exposure to blood or other potentially infectious material as part of their assigned duties (Category I).
____ Employee performs assigned tasks which does not involve exposure to blood or other potentially infectious material, BUT employment may require performing unplanned category I tasks (Category II).
__x__ Employee performs assigned tasks which involve no exposure to blood or other potentially infectious material AND performance of category I tasks are not a condition of employment (Category III).
MANDATORY TRAINING CATEGORY (Check One)__x__ Administrative __x__ Direct Care ____ Medical
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTAspire Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability's goal is to continually improve the delivery of service by improvement of individual outcomes and satisfaction. All employees have a role in performance improvement and are expected to interact collaboratively with co-workers and other contacts to provide consistent, high-quality, individually focused services.
G. SPECIAL NEEDS OF POPULATION SERVED(Age Related, Cultural and Linguistic Competence)
he AOT Forensic Peer Specialist must demonstrate knowledge of and sensitivity to adults with serious mental illness who may have experienced repeated psychiatric hospitalization, crisis utilization, homelessness, substance use, trauma, social isolation, treatment disengagement, and involvement with behavioral health, civil court, and/or justice systems.
The Forensic Peer Specialist must recognize that participants may enter AOT with fear, mistrust, ambivalence, frustration, or negative previous experiences with treatment or systems of care. The Peer Specialist uses lived experience and intentional peer relationships to foster hope, trust, engagement, self-advocacy, and belief in the possibility of recovery.
Services must respect cultural differences, individual values, personal recovery goals, participant autonomy, and the dignity and rights of each individual served.
Staff should be able to:
DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESa. Provide recovery-oriented peer support services to individuals participating in Aspire BHDD's Assisted Outpatient Treatment Program.
b. Use personal lived experience appropriately and intentionally to establish authentic peer relationships, promote hope, reduce stigma, model recovery, and demonstrate that meaningful community life and recovery are…
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