New agency seeking to add Peer Support Services program to growing practice. Looking to serve Burke, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie, Forsyth, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Rutherford, Stanly, Surry, Union, and Yadkin. The position will offer the flexibility to work from home and also meet with consumers in their homes. The PSS will provide community based recovery services to adults with SMI and substance use disorders. The PSS will carry a caseload and work towards the consumers personal goals for recovery and healing with the support of a qualified professional. Documentation of visits and relevant person centered plan updates information is required. Being on call is required with supervisor support. The PSS will need to offer a continuum of care, assist with treatment team meetings and overall support consumers with meeting their goals for recovery and healing. Mileage reimbursements. Salary and benefits after 90 days.
• Knowledge of peer support principles, values and ethics.
• Ability to share lived experience to support, encourage and enhance a beneficiary’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 a beneficiary 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 beneficiaries served and to promote a recovery
environment in the community, residence, and workplace.
• Ability to explore with a beneficiary served, the importance and creation of a wellness
identity through open sharing and challenging viewpoints.
• Ability to promote a beneficiary’s opportunity for personal growth by identifying
teachable moments for building relationship skills to empower the beneficiary and
enhance personal responsibility.
• Ability to model and share decisions-making tools to enhance a beneficiary’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 beneficiary in navigating systems (medical, social
services, or legal).
• Ability to promote self-advocacy by facilitating each beneficiary’s learning about his or
her human and legal rights and supporting the beneficiary while exercising those rights to
support the empowerment of the beneficiary.
