Peer Support Spec

Job Details

Job Location:

Bell Co Diversion Center - Belton, TX 76513
Position Type:
Full Time
Education Level: High School or Equivalent

Travel Percentage :
Negligible

Job Shift: Day
Minimum Starting Hourly Rate: $16.11
Maximum Starting Hourly Rate - Dependent on Qualifications

• Health
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Generous Paid Time Off — 7.69 hrs. per pay period
• 10 Observed Company Paid Holidays
• 8 Hours Annual Volunteer Time Off
• Retirement Plan with 6% Employer Contribution
• Employee Assistance Program

This position may be required to work a flexible schedule, including nights, weekends and holidays.

This is a grant funded position, and employment is contingent upon continued funding.

The Peer Support Specialist (PS) is an active member of the Jail Diversion – Crisis Residential Facility and provides peer support services to clients with serious and persistent mental illness. Under the supervision of the Program Manager, the PS will function as a role model to individuals in recovery; exhibiting competency in personal recovery and use of coping skills; and serve as a consumer advocate, providing consumer information and peer support for clients in an outpatient clinical setting.

The PS performs a wide range of tasks to assist peers of all ages, from young adult to older adults, in regaining independence within the community and mastery over their own recovery process. PS provide peer mentoring and support to consumers; model self-advocacy skills; provide information, referral, and non-clinical skills training; maintain engagement; and assist in identifying resources. This service includes interventions to facilitate recovery and documentation of the provision of all peer provider services, including both face-to-face and non-face-to-face activities.

• Provide recovery education to individuals for every phase of the recovery journey from pre-recovery engagement, recovery initiation, recovery stabilization, and sustained recovery.
• Assist clients in developing empowerment skills and combating stigma through self-advocacy. This will be accomplished through regular meetings and individual or group sessions. Through the use of role playing/modeling techniques, the PS provides opportunities for others to demonstrate how they have handled similar problems, how to present themselves in certain situations, or how to handle problems that may arise in interactions with others.
• Facilitate ongoing group skills training sessions to teach clients how to identify and combat negative self-talk and how to identify and overcome fears. As a facilitator of these sessions, the PS models effective coping techniques and self-help strategies, and shares their own experiences and the skills, strengths, supports and resources they used.
• Participate in weekly team meetings as well as monthly supervision.
• Actively identify and support linkages to community resources (communities of recovery, educational, vocational, social, cultural, spiritual resources, mutual aid groups, professional services, etc.) that support the individual’s goals and interests. This will involve a collaborative effort including the individual, staff, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Assist clients in working with their case manager or treatment team in determining the steps they need to take to achieve goals and self-directed recovery. The PS will support clients in identifying and creating goals and developing recovery plans with the skills, strengths, supports and resources needed to aid them in achieving those goals.
• Document progress notes according to Center requirements and Texas Administrative Codes. Employees will maintain complete and accurate consumer medical records and keep all such…