Peer Support Worker - Assertive Community Treatment; ACT

Peer Support Worker - Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)

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This position description is a temporary management guide tool and is subject to change.

The Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team provides non traditional community based mental health treatment to promote the recovery and community integration of adults with serious and persistent mental illnesses and co occurring substance use and/or serious co-occurring physical health conditions. The overall goal of the ACT team is to reduce use of ERs, inpatient hospital stays, and other harmful behaviors. The ACT Peer Support Specialist is an integral part of a multidisciplinary team of mental health clinicians/providers.

This position will provide patient centered services with a rehabilitation and recovery focus that are designed to promote skills for coping with and managing psychiatric symptoms, education regarding daily living skills and overall wellness, and other matters related to assisting participants to live more independent lives. The ACT peer support specialist will be expected to manage his/her own schedule and will be expected to work in a team environment.

The vast majority of services will take place in participants homes and/or in the community. Will be required to be on call for a 7 day rotation every 6 to 8 weeks.

• PEER SUPPORT COMPONENTS
  • Help the service participant to develop a network for information and support from others who have been through similar experiences.
  • Articulate what has been helpful and what was not helpful in his/her own recovery.
  • Identify beliefs and values a patient holds that work against their recovery.
  • Discern when and how much of their recovery story to share and with whom.
  • Discuss his/her own tools for taking care of himself/herself.
  • Assist the service participants with regaining the ability to make independent choices and to take a proactive role in treatment, including discussing questions or concerns about medications, diagnoses, or treatment approaches with their treating clinician.
  • Create and facilitate a variety of group activities that support and strengthen recovery.
  • Complete necessary documentation required by the state.
  • Help a service participant combat negative self talk, overcome fears, and solve problems.
  • Help a service participant articulate, set, and accomplish his/her goals.
  • Teach other service participant to advocate for the services that they want.
  • Help a service participant create a Person Centered Plan.
  • Assist the service participant with identifying and effective responding to or avoiding identified precursors or triggers that result in functional impairments.
  • Ask open ended questions that relate a person to his/her inner wisdom.
  • Demonstrate an ability to participate in healing communication.
  • Interact sensitively and effectively with people of other cultures.
  • Teach other patients to create their own Wellness Recovery Action Plan.
• ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Accurately complete E time on a daily basis.
  • Maintain confidentiality in all aspects of position.
  • Communicate with community partners only after obtaining proper authorization.
  • Complete paperwork tasks within required time frames.
  • Attend and regularly participate in ACT team meetings.
  • Attend and regularly participate in clinical and administrative supervision.
  • Maintain responsibility for organizing a schedule and establishing priorities, according to existing patient and agency needs.
  • Maintain adequate and timely documentation in the clinical record of treatment interventions and other activities related to service participant care, as defined by Prairie View standards.
  • Schedules are completed within 24 hours of the service provided.
  • Progress notes are completed within 72 hours.
• PRODUCTIVITY EXPECTATIONS
  • Maintain 24 to 27 encounters weekly or 1,152 to 1,296 encounters annually.
  • Ensure that contacts with service participants are goal directed, outcome focused, and meaningful.
• AGE-BASED COMPETENCY
  • Acknowledges the rights and responsibilities of adult service participants.
  • Recognizes the range of needs, both …