TITLE:
Group Lead
PURPOSE:
To facilitate discussion during weekly psycho-educational groups for peers seeking recovery from mental health and/or substance use disorders
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Prepare and present on a relevant topic each week in accordance with the established curriculum.
2. Facilitate discussion and encourage mutual self-help exchanges of suggestions, experiences & support.
Essential Job Functions:
Provides support to individuals with Mental Health (MH) or Substance Abuse Issues at home and in community settings to include Duplin, Sampson, Onslow, Wayne and Pender counties. Additional responsibilities are administrative tasks to include client intake, scheduling appts and linking to community resources. These interventions are strength-based and focused on promoting recovery, symptom reduction, increased coping skills, and achievement of the highest level of functioning in the community. Provides supervision to CPSS staff.
Job Description: Provides highly individualized services in the community and promotes individual self-determination and decision-making to individuals with Mental Health or Substance Abuse issues. Certified Peer Support Specialists also provide essential expertise and consultation to the entire team to promote a culture in which each individual’s point of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected and integrated into treatment, rehabilitation, and community self-help activities.
The Carter Clinic, P.A.
4009 Barrett Drive
Suite 100
Raleigh NC 27609
We are seeking experienced Certified Peer Support Specialists to work in our expanding Peer Support Program. With 12 locations across the great state of North Carolina, there is a place for you here at the Carter Clinic.
Requiremets:
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