Are you a "Certified Peer Support Specialist" and would like to share your personal lived experience with those who are struggling with mental health? If so, this opportunity is for you!

The Peer Support Specialist is responsible for support of any individual and/or group of clients within facility, “clubhouse model”, community training sites, and/or community employment sites as outlined on Person-Centered Plan of Services, under the supervisor of Senior Manager or designee.

Essential functions include but are not limited to the following:

• Attend staffing and plan development meetings
• Provides education, self-advocacy, and employment skills training and resources to the client(s) and aids in linking to supportive services and promotion of employment
• Plans and coordinates wellness, self-advocacy, transportation, employment, social skills training, and/or support groups and teaches strategies and self-management strategies for use in employment and/or daily living
• Maintain current documentation of required qualifications and certifications for employment as outlined by program guidelines
• Provides information to assist with coordination of services with other professionals, guardians, family members as allowed by confidentiality guidelines
• Completes documentation on employment, individual and group-related activities, progress and reports, employer feedback, etc., and submits to immediate supervisor
• Performs community-based employment checks with clients, families, and employers to ensure employment success and mastery of self-advocacy skills. P
• Provides delivery of skill-building activities such as living skills, socialization, employment, adaptation, symptoms monitoring, and management skills
• Provides wellness education and direct interventions S
• Support individuals in overcoming job-related concerns, community integration, and building social skills
• Provide client transportation as required

Minimum Qualifications:

Required: High School Diploma or equivalent and one year lived experience as a recipient of services and certification as a Peer Support Specialist.

• Complete required training and execute methods of intervention
• Basic academic skills to conduct training teach skill-building activities and document and maintain required records.
• Ability to communicate in oral and written form
• General knowledge and lived experience, as a recipient or former recipient of services, with a mental illness, substance use and/or developmental disability
• Ability to model self-advocacy skills and support vocational choices and needs in order to contribute to the individual, person-centered plan
• Ability to be perceptive of client(s) needs and link to resources and provide training as necessary for employment and attainment of personal goals
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with staff, agencies, and business representatives