Peer Mentor

Employment Peer Mentor page is loaded## Employment Peer Mentor locations:
Charlotte, NCtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
R11090#
** Make a Difference in Someone’s Life!
** At Monarch, we work together to provide life-changing care in communities across North Carolina and Rhode Island. As a team, we provide hope, promote wellness, and empower individuals and families impacted by mental illness, substance use disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and traumatic brain injury.#
** You Belong at Monarch
** You deserve a positive and encouraging work environment - a place where you can do your best work and grow as a professional. That is just what you’ll find e, we care for people, including our team members. We offer a comprehensive, competitive  that supports full-time and part-time team members and their families. More than just a job, this opportunity with Monarch will give you room to spread your wings and grow because we believe in promoting from within and developing future leaders.#

** Job Highlights:**#
** This Opportunity:
** The Employment Peer Mentor is primarily responsible for supporting people to achieve their personal goals of employment while enhancing the development of their natural supports, as well as coping and self-management skills. This position utilizes personal experience with mental health or substance abuse issues to assist others in achieving desired outcomes.#
** What You'll Do:*
* • Promote self-determination, recovery, self-advocacy, and self-direction; assisting individuals in identifying strengths, wellness goals, setting objectives, and identifying barriers.  
• Assist individuals in making informed choices regarding their care and services and other life decisions affecting their illness.  
• Assist with self-help, advocacy, pre-crisis support, and supporting an individual with speaking with their employer regarding reasonable accommodations for psychiatric disability.  
• Assist the Employment Support Professional in conjunction with the individuals supported in developing goals and areas of need, and assist in developing Individualized Employment Plans  
• Communicate needs and progress of the person supported to supervisor and Employment Support Professionals/other professionals as requested.  
• Engage in various skill-building activities such as learning how to maintain stable housing, bill paying, cleaning, organizing belongings, building social skills, locating improved housing situations, according to cultural and personal preferences of the individual served and his/her medical needs.  
• Attend treatment team meetings with individual to promote the individual’s use of self-directed advocacy tools; supporting individuals in developing or updating PCP’s and/or Employment Plans; how to ask for appropriate services in the community; support individual through the employment planning process.  
• Outreach to individuals in other programs and services to encourage employment.  
• Model advocacy skills for disclosure issues or requesting job accommodations.  
• Teach wellness management strategies and self-management plans/tools to use in the workplace and in personal lives.  
• Link individuals to support groups in the community to learn from other peers, promote hope, problem-solve through work situations, and decrease social isolation.  
• Provide education to Employment Support Professionals and other team members to assist in understanding in self-advocate and peer support roles, promoting a culture in which an individual’s point of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected, and integrated into service.  
• Provide resources and teach transportation skills as necessary to secure employment.  
• Share own personal story to model how to choose, get, and keep meaningful employment and build community connections.  
• Support vocational choices made by individuals and support them in overcoming job-related concerns and building social skills in the community that will enhance job acquisition and tenure.  
• Document encounters and contacts made on behalf of people we support; complete and submit billing documentation…