Youth Peer Support Specialist

The Youth Peer Support Specialist works closely with youth who have psychiatric disabilities as they transition to adulthood. The Cornerstone Youth Peer Support Specialist acts as a mentor while providing support and assistance to individuals in the following areas: functional skills in education, employment, social supports, wellness, self-management, and residential stability.

As a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic, CNS Healthcare's mission is to serve the people of our communities. We are seeking candidates that have a passion for mentoring to help people achieve community inclusion, participation, independence, recovery, and productivity. Our ideal candidate has a special ability to gain the trust and respect of the individuals we serve based on shared experiences.

The starting pay for this position is $18.60 - $23.40 hourly rate for uncertified candidates, and $19.88 - $25.13 hourly rate for certified candidates, and is based on non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience.

As a member of our team, you will have an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on our community and the lives of the individuals that we serve. CNS Healthcare provides a robust total rewards program to support our team members and their loved ones. We’ve highlighted some benefits below, available through our careers page for more details.

• Comprehensive medical insurance options
• Employer-paid benefits including dental, vision, life, and short-term disability insurance
• Retirement program with generous company default contribution and match
• Generous PTO program starting at 18 days annually
• 16 paid holidays, including 3 floating holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Student loan forgiveness eligibility, including Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), HRSA, and more

Please see below for a summary of job responsibilities and qualifications!

• Supports individuals in acquiring and practicing all activities of daily life.
• Connects individuals to medically necessary and clinically indicated services including DHS, Social Security, food and clothing banks and other community resources using agency or personally owned vehicle, as assigned.
• Facilitates wellness groups including WRAP, WHAM, Smoking Cessation, among others, and support individuals in those groups in gaining access to community programs and services as they are indicated, especially physical health care and dental services.
• Attends team meetings and receives assignments from supervisor.
• Provides assistance and partnership in:
  • Developing advance directive
  • Learning about and pursuing alternatives to guardianship
  • Developing, implementing and providing ongoing guidance for advocacy and support groups.
• Promotes client decision-making that support self-determination and participate in the person-entered-planning (PCP) process.
• Assists individuals with the implementation of their goals and objectives identified in the PCP.
• Attends outings intended to enhance socialization and provides instruction-based assistance including teaching, prompting, modeling, monitoring encouragement and general support to persons served.
• Utilizes a Trauma-Informed approach to deliver services
• Completes all required documentation, including progress notes, contact notes, and NOMS, completely, accurately, and in accordance with CNS policy
• Fulfill mandatory education requirements of CNS.
• Accounts for scheduled work hours through billing, productivity or other approved methods of documentation.
• Meet established productivity standards of the organization.
• Other duties as assigned

Required

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Valid and unrestricted Driver’s License
• Transportation or Automobile accessibility with current automobile/vehicle insurance meeting agency policy requirements
• Is a young adult, ages 18 through age 26, with lived experience who received mental health services as a youth.
• Is willing and able to self-identify as a person who has or is receiving behavioral health services and is prepared to use that experience in helping others.
• Has experience receiving services as a youth in…