Certified Peer Support Specialist

Responsibilities

• Provide specialized services to individuals in the community that promote the individual’s self‑determination and decision‑making.
• Support individuals in identifying life choices and assist them in overcoming obstacles to achieving these goals.
• Use personal life experiences as a recipient of services, to role‑model recovery and establish trusting relationships with peers.
• Advocate for the consumer to ensure responsiveness from natural, community, generic and specialized services.
• Provide individual advocacy, crisis management supports, and skills training in identified life domains.
• Assist individuals to locate self‑help programs and advocacy organizations in the community that promote recovery.
• Assist individual with understanding the WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan) and Advance Directives and how they are designed to be self‑management systems facilitating recovery.
• Meet established productivity and completes documentation according to program policies and procedures.

Required minimum qualifications:

• Must be 21 years of age or older, high school diploma or GED required.
• Must have within the last three (3) years maintained at least 24 months of successful full or part‑time paid or voluntary work experience or successfully completed at least 24 credit hours of post‑secondary education.
• Must be able to identify yourself as a person who has received or is receiving services for a serious mental illness.
• Must have successfully completed a peer specialist training curriculum approved by OMHSAS.
• Must have a valid PA Driver’s License.
• Act 33/34 clearances.