Duplin

JOB SUMMARY: As part of a multi-disciplinary team, the Peer Support Specialist will provide peer support services to persons with mental illness and/or substance abuse problems. The Peer Support Specialist will assist clients with developing self-help, crisis/coping and social skills. Support will also be provided to clients to assist them with finding resources for housing, employment and/or education, while helping to develop a secure network of community support.

Job Title:  Certified Peer Support Specialist

Responsible To:  Peer Support Supervisor

Main Function: CPSS provides structured, scheduled services that promote recovery, self-determination, self-advocacy, engagement in self-care and wellness and enhancement of community living skills of the members served.   

Qualifications:

Required:

Employment Peer Mentor (EPM): EPMs offer 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. Employment Peer Mentors do not hold their own caseloads and do not function as an extension of ESPs or as case managers. They support any and all individuals enrolled in the service through the provision of wellness interventions, promoting self-determination, and helping individuals advocate for themselves.

We are looking for you….. Duplin, Edgecombe, Greene, Lenoir, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Warren, Wayne, Wilson, Anson, Davidson, Guilford, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond, Rockingham, Burke, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie, Forsyth, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Rutherford, Stanly, Surry, Union, Yadkin Counties 

PEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST! PEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST SUPERVISORS! LCAS, CSAC, LCAS-A & CSAC-A

The Peer Support Specialist primary responsibilities are to direct, coordinate, and manage the activities of a comprehensive mental health program and to ensure the program operates in full compliance with relevant laws, ensure accuracy of data; compliance with regulation; and identify operational efficiencies. The Peer Support Specialist will provide service activities to include the following interventions:

• Education and training of clients and others who have a legitimate role in addressing the needs identified in the Person-Centered Plan

Peer Recovery 365, LLC. is looking for dedicated Peer Support Specialists, whose mission is to assist others with overcoming Substance use or mental health issues that the Peer maybe challenged with in their everyday life. A Peer Support Specialist with Peer Recovery 365, LLC. must be certified through the State of North Carolina and meet the following requirements below:

TITLE: Certified Peer Support Specialist

REPORTS TO: Peer Support Supervisor

Peer Recovery 365, LLC. is looking for dedicated Peer Support Specialists, whose mission is to assist others with overcoming Substance use or mental health issues that the Peer maybe challenged with in their everyday life. A Peer Support Specialist with Peer Recovery 365, LLC. must be certified through the State of North Carolina and meet the following requirements below:

TITLE: Certified Peer Support Specialist

REPORTS TO: Peer Support Supervisor

Peer Support services are structured and scheduled activities for adults aged 18 and older with MH/SA disability. Peer Supports are provided by Peer Support Staff. Peer Support service is an individualized, recovery focused approach that promotes the development of wellness self-management, personal recovery, natural supports, coping skills, and self-advocacy skills and development of independent living skills for housing, employment and full community inclusion.

• 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.