Peer Support Program at Clientfirst of NC, Goldsboro, NC

Position: NC Certified Peer Support Specialist

Education & Experience:

Prefer a bachelor degree in human services or relate field

A minimum of a high school diploma or equivalency required from an approved, accredited institution
Must be a NC Certified Peer Support Specialist

Must be or have been a recipient of mental health services

Required Licenses & Certifications

Driver’s license, proof of car insurance, and vehicle for use at work

Must be a NC Certified Peer Support Specialist

Position Summary:

The Peer Support Specialist offers hope and motivation by drawing from their lived experience and their own employment experiences to encourage other individuals to seek and maintain employment, wellness, and community integration.  The Certified Peer Support Specialist should have the following qualifications:

• Knowledge of peer support principles, values, and ethics.
• Ability to share lived experience to support, encourage, and enhance an individual’s treatment and recovery.
• Possess recovery-oriented skills and knowledge to provide peer support services.
• Ability to collaborate with the program QP to assess their own strengths and areas of growth and develop a supervision plan.
• Ability to collaborate with an individual to explore and identify barriers to accessing community resources or treatment providers.
• Ability to model and mentor recovery values, attitudes, beliefs, and personal actions to encourage wellness and resilience for individuals served and to promote a recovery environment in the community, residence, and workplace.
• Ability to explore with an individual served the importance and creation of a wellness identity through open sharing and challenging viewpoints.
• Ability to promote an individual’s opportunity for personal growth by identifying teachable moments for building relationship skills to empower the individual and enhance personal responsibility.
• Ability to model and share decisions-making tools to enhance an individual’s healthy decision –making process.
• Ability to provide examples of healthy social interactions and facilitate familiarity with, and connection to, the local community.
• Ability to recognize and appropriately respond to conditions that constitute an emergency to include both physical and behavioral health crisis utilizing the emergency response procedure of employer.
• Ability to provide support to the individual in navigating systems (medical, social services, legal).
• Ability to promote self-advocacy by facilitating each individual’s learning about his or her human and legal rights and supporting the individual while exercising those rights to support the empowerment of the individual.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

Excellent oral and written communication skills
Ability to handle multiple responsibilities and assign priorities
Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other computer skills.