Peer Specialist; MAT Part-time

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A Peer Specialist uses his or her lived experience to serve as a mentor to provide support for persons with severe persistent mental illness and or substance use disorder. This role will promote hope and set person-centered recovery-oriented goals. The role is non-clinical and does not include treatment, assessment and/or clinical evaluations of clients. It involves developing a relationship of trust that builds clients’ resilience, hope, recovery skills, and connects them to treatment services.

• Assist clients by using tools such as Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), in order to help clients, discover safe wellness tools and create a crisis/post-crisis plan. Accomplish through regular meetings to help clients identify their own strengths and support them in using those strengths to communicate goals to staff and clinicians.
• Assist clients in working with their case manager and other clinician/prescriber in determining the steps to take to achieve the personal goals and self-directed recovery through individual and/or group setting. PS will support clients in finding and developing the self-directed recovery goals by providing skill building, based on personal strength, supports and resources to aid them in order to achieve those goals.
• Role model’s competency in recovery, resiliency, wellness strategies and other techniques to the clients as well as coworkers and other staff. Share own personal recovery journey story to role model the value of recovery and teach clients appropriate self-advocacy to help clients sustain recovery success.
• Completes documentation and other paperwork accurately within 48 hours of service delivery and routed to supervisor approval. Will be directed on appropriate documentation and reviewed by supervisor.
• Meets service productivity standard of at least 62.5% (or 5 out of 8 work hours) for the provision of peer services which are supported by appropriate clinical record documentation which meet Clinical Record Handbook specifications and Agency business/clinical ethics standards.

Entry level

Part-time

Other

Mental Health Care