Helping You Heal is seeking a full time peer support specialist to serve as a team member for a small caseload. The PSS will be a contributing member of the team in meetings and support for other staff. The PSS will coordinate care for clients and support their goals. The PSS will also have to perform affiliated paperwork in a timely manner. The PSS will be expected to be on call in a rotation and also perform 75% of visits in the home or community of the clients. It is a great role to help change lives! We have attached the ACTT service definition for PSS role for reference. Passionate Peers Please Apply!
Peer Specialist
Each ACT team has at least 1.0 FTE NC Certified Peer Support Specialist. No
more than two individuals can share this position. This professional’s life
experience with mental illness or substance abuse and behavioral health services
provides expertise that professional training cannot replicate. To ensure that the
experience of the peer specialist is commensurate with those served by ACT, for
this position, the individual must have “lived experience” and a personal
recovery story specific to primary mental illness. The certified peer support
specialist is a fully integrated team member who provides highly individualized
services in the community and promotes the self-determination and shared
decision-making abilities of beneficiaries. The responsibilities of the Peer
Support Specialist are as follows:
a. Provides coaching, mentoring, and consultation to the beneficiary to promote
recovery, self-advocacy, and self-direction;
b. promotes wellness management strategies, which includes delivering
manualized interventions (example, Wellness Recovery Action Planning or
Illness Management and Recovery);
c. assists beneficiaries in developing psychiatric advance directives;
d. models recovery values, attitudes, beliefs, and personal action to encourage
wellness and resilience;
e. provides consultation to team members to assist in understanding of recovery
and the role of the Peer Support Specialists, promoting a culture in which
beneficiaries’ points of view and preferences are recognized, understood,
respected, and integrated into treatment;
f. serves as an active member of the ACT team, equivalent to other team
members, which includes facilitating the Person Centered Planning process
for beneficiaries assigned to him or her if a QP; and
g. supports and empowers the individual to exercise his or her legal rights
within the community.
