Peer Support Specialist​/Trainee - Trueblood - Supportive Team

Position: Peer Support Specialist/Trainee - Trueblood Housing - Permanent Supportive Housing Team
* Build a trusting relationship with residents and provide emotional and practice support.
* Assist residents with daily living activities, including hygiene, meals, and medication reminders.
* Support residents in accessing services such as behavioral health, legal aid, and employment programs.
* Document incidents, resident interactions, and service coordination in compliance with program standards. Collaborate with case managers, peer support specialists, and health care providers.
* Uphold trauma-informed care, harm reduction, and housing first principles.
* As a member of a multi-disciplinary team, assist other FBH team members in the development of treatment objectives and interventions for clients enrolled in mental health services.
* Provide peer counseling and support, drawing on common experiences as a peer, to clients, parents, caregivers, and natural/community supports by encouraging them to regain hope in, and control over, their own lives.
* Identify services and activities that promote recovery and resilience, assisting clients to identify strengths, recognize successes, and to build hope.
* Mentor clients to build self-advocacy skills, navigate health systems, build natural supports, and find meaningful activities that promote a sense of purpose, structure and inclusion in the community.
* Promote personal responsibility for recovery as the individual client and/or mental health service provider defines recovery.
* Mentor clients to explore networking through existing advisory groups and client-run organizations; if applicable, help clients become involved as an advocate for others.
* Provide individual and group services (appropriate to scope) for enrolled clients including facilitating recovery groups
* Mentor clients to build and maintain community living skills and access community resources;
* Support clients who are pursuing educational, vocational, or volunteer services;
* Engage with assigned clients prior to discharge from inpatient psychiatric care, participate in discharge planning, as directed and assigned, and accompany clients as they transition into the community as appropriate.
* Assist clients in need or in times of personal crisis with finding appropriate resources for stabilization in the least restrictive environment appropriate.
* Contact clients referred by a clinician that are not attending scheduled appointments in order to identify barriers and problem solve solutions to client attendance.
* Work with clients in preparation of graduating from services.
* Engage with various community partners as stipulated in contracts and within the program design.
* Partner with team members to review cases, gain consultation and co-facilitate groups.
* Maintain client records and all other required documentation in a timely and confidential manner, in accordance with agency policies and practices.
* Provide after-hours coverage on a schedule rotation, if applicable.
* Requires travel to see clients in the community and travel between work sites either via FBH owned Vehicles and/or personal vehicle.
* Other duties as assigned.
2. Must apply for Agency Affiliated Counselor Registration (RAAC) from the WA State Dept. of Health within 30 days of hire date unless the Applicant has an active
** Certified Peer Support Specialist (CPSS)
** or
** Certified Peer Support Specialist TRAINEE (CPSST)
** credential from the WA State Department of Health as outlined in WAC Chapter 246-929.
* In addition to the RAAC credential requirement above, if an Applicant does not have either of the above CPSS or CPSST credentials, active or pending, with the WA State Dept. of Health, then must apply for the Certified Peer Support Specialist TRAINEE credential within 90 days of Hire.
* For more information about Certified Peer Support Specialist Credentials from the WA State Dept. of Health, please visit: **.
*** This position provides client services in community settings on a daily basis.
* Community settings include but are not limited to residences, group/congregate living settings, hospitals, shelters, the streets or anywhere in the community at large.
* Some environments may not be ideal in terms of cleanliness or being habitable.
* Daily travel between locations is required.
* The ability to drive a vehicle, traverse distances up to several city blocks and on various terrains, navigate stairs, get in and out of vehicles frequently is required.
* Daily use of a computer is required.
* May be required to lift 10 - 20 pounds.
* Blood-borne Pathogen Category III - No predictable exposure to blood-borne pathogens.
1. Applicants will be hired as a
** Certified*
* ** Peer Support Specialist,
** if at the time of offer, has an
** ACTIVE*
* ** Certified Peer Support Specialist
** Credential from the WA State Dept. of Health
2. Applicants will be hired as a
** Certified Peer Support Specialist Trainee,
** if at time of offer, the Applicant has an
** ACTIVE*
* ** Certified Peer Support Specialist TRAINEE
** credential from the WA State Dept. of Health.
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