Peer Support Specialist, Assertive Community Treatment; ACT - Detroit​/Wayne

Peer Support Specialist, Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) - Detroit/Wayne County

Job Category: Skilled

Requisition Number: PEERS
002686

• Posted :
  May 6, 2025
• Full-Time

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Detroit - Warren Road
12800 E Warren Ave
Detroit, MI 48215, USA

We are seeking candidates who want to join our impact-driven organization and who share our passion for advancing integrated mental and physical healthcare and eliminating stigma by providing services to those affected by mental illness, substance use, intellectual/developmental disabilities, and emotional disorders.

The ACT Peer Support Specialist serves as a member of community-based mental health team that provides services for individuals experiencing serious mental illness. The ACT Peer Support Specialist certified peer support specialist that works closely with individuals with mental illness and substance use disorders. The ACT Peer Support Specialist acts as a mentor while providing support and assistance to individuals in the following areas: achieving community inclusion, participation, independence, recovery, resiliency and/or productivity.

Please note: As a community-based role, this position will render at least 80% of services in the beneficiary's home or other agreed-upon community-based position.

Compensation Range:

The starting pay for this position is $22.00 - $23.00 hourly rate and is based on non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience.

• 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

Interested in learning more about this role?

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 Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), Whole Health Action Management (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.
• 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.
• Attend ACT team meetings daily (and at discretion of ACT Team Supervisor), to review status of all beneficiaries, updates from on-call, clinical and case/care management needs, crisis management, schedule organization, and finalized plans for ACT staff deployment in the community.
• As a team-based service, perform a minimum of 80% of ACT contacts in the beneficiary’s home or other agreed upon community location.
• 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 National Outcome Measures (NOMs), completely, accurately, and in accordance with CNS policy
• Fulfills mandatory education requirements of CNS including internal training and community education.
• Accounts for scheduled work hours through billing, productivity, or other approved methods of documentation.
• Meet direct service productivity and documentation standards per agency and program expectations.
• Provide transportation assistance to individuals served as needed.
• Participation in on-call rotation (at discretion of ACT Team Supervisor) as assigned.
• Maintain compliance with quality care initiatives including Meaningful Use (MU), Medicare Merit Based…