Certified Peer Support Specialist

Essential Job Functions:

• Provides coaching, mentoring, and consultation to the individual served to promote recovery, self- advocacy, and self-direction.
• Promotes wellness management strategies, which includes delivering manualized interventions (e.g., Wellness Recovery Action Planning or Illness Management and Recovery) and employment services.
• Assists people receiving services in developing psychiatric advance directives.
• Models recovery values, attitudes, beliefs, and personal action to encourage wellness and resilience.
• Provides consultation to team members to assist in understanding of recovery and the role of the Employment Peer Mentor, promoting a culture in which beneficiaries’ points of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected, and integrated into treatment.
• Serves as an active member of the employment team, equivalent to other team members, which includes assisting with the Person-Centered Planning process.
• Supports and empowers the individual to exercise his or her legal rights within the community.
• Provides employment services interventions and case coordination as needed.
• Prepares and submits documentation accurately and within prescribed timelines.
• Participates in peer review.
• Completes required training within prescribed timeframes.
• Performs related duties as requested

THIS IS A VOLUNTEER POSITION WITH THE POTENTIAL TO BE HIRED AS A PAID EMPLOYEE AT THE MARY J. HOOPER HOPE & WELLNESS DROP-IN CENTER.

MUST BE A CERTIFIED PEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST