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WHAT WE OFFER:
Flexible Schedule
Opportunity to serve your community
OVERVIEW
To provide peer support services as part of a multi-disciplinary team to persons with mental illness and/or substance abuse problems. Service provision will focus on working with clients to enhance their recovery.
Duties/Responsibilities:
Education: High School Diploma or GED required
Experience: Past mental health or substance abuse services with a history of managing own illness. Awareness of the importance of recovery in living with a mental illness or addictions problem. Past experience working directly with people in a service-oriented field is beneficial.
Peer Support must be delivered by individuals who have the life experience of being diagnosed with a serious mental illness or substance use disorder.
North Carolina Certified Peer Support Specialists who has a Certification
a) Self identify as an individual with life experience of being diagnosed with a serious mental illness or substance use disorder which meets Federal Definitions and
b) Are well established in their own recovery and
c) Are currently in recovery and are stable and
d) Have a high school diploma or GED equivalency, and
e) Are supervised by a Qualified Professional (QP), and
f) Are not a family member of the individual who receives Peer Support services.
Skills: Ability to work well with others. Ability to interact with various types of people. A sound understanding of mental health and/or substance abuse problems and treatments. Personal traits which include: patience, tolerance, caring, mature and understanding
Contractor
$44k-55k (estimate)
10/07/2022
04/06/2023
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