Certified Peer Support Specialist - Part-time (Saginaw)
Job Description
Job Description
Candidate must be Certified as a Peer Support Specialist, not a Recovery Specialist or Coach.
POSITION REQUIRES HOME VISITS IN SAGINAW COGAUNTY
The Certified Peer Supports Specialist functions as part of a team to provide flexible services aimed at supporting, directly or indirectly, persons served. The Certified Peer Supports Specialist is an individual who possesses a unique perspective to treatment, due to his/her own personal experience with Mental Illness that professional training cannot replicate. They often act as a consultant to other team members, helping them understand the persons’ served perspectives and subjective experiences. This position has a high degree of person integrity, generates positive energy, and makes a difference every day.
.Why a Certified Peer Support Specialist at Hope…
Make a difference in people's lives, including your own.
Here are just some of the ways Hope Network invests in you for all that you do:
- Pay - $14.00 - $17.00 (depending on experience and education)
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance available
- Career pathing and growth opportunities
- Paid Training
How you will change lives…
- Support and promote a recovery-focused environment. Use experiences with personal recovery to offer hope, encouragement and reassurance to the people served within the program.
- Participate in the person centered planning process as requested by the people that we serve.
- Work with program leadership to implement programmatic changes by utilizing evidence based practices (ex. Trauma Informed Care) to improve the quality of our services and outcomes.
- Assist the people we serve to become active participants in their treatment and encourage self-advocacy while.
- Encourage those served to take personal responsibility for their own recovery and wellness.
- Document interactions in the electronic medical record and coordinate with other treatment team members as necessary.
- In individual and group settings, provide services aimed at promoting independence, community inclusion and productivity. Services offered will include but are not limited to: Assistance in applying for benefits, assistance in finding and maintaining housing, budgeting skills, Wellness Recovery Action Plan, care coordination and medical advocacy and follow up after psychiatric hospitalizations.
About you…
- You are passionate about serving others.
- You are helpful and professional with internal and external customers.
- You enjoy working independently and as part of a team.
- You act as a positive role model and coach for others.
We are Hopeful you have…
- Personal experience with Mental Illness and have received services through a Mental Heath Provider
- Firsthand knowledge of characteristics and conditions experienced by consumer population.
- Must complete and achieve CT 101 training by DCH.
- Two years’ experience preferred.
- Valid Michigan Driver’s License.