Description
Join the Copa Health Team Today! Immediately Hiring a Peer Support Specialist for the MACT Team!
What You'll Get...
When you join our team as a full-time team member, you will receive:

• Limitless growth and career advancement opportunities
• Career development offered internally through our Organizational Development & Learning Department
• Generous PTO program - up to 3 weeks off your first year with continued accruals each pay period plus 1 additional PTO day for Employee Well-Being
• 9 paid holidays per year
• Wellness Program - Offering access to an expert Health Coach and wellness incentives to lower cost
• Tuition reimbursement up to $3,000
• Affordable health care plans: Medical, Vision, and Dental
• H.S.A., H.R.A, F.S.A. (with select medical plans)
• Free Short-Term Disability and Life/AD&D Insurance up to $100,000
• 403(b) retirement plans with company match.
• Employee Assistance and well-Being program with coaching and counseling services!
• Employee Voluntary benefits: Long-Term Disability, Pet Insurance, Additional Life/AD&D Insurance, and much more!

Starting Pay: $20-$23
Who We Need
The Peer Support Specialist on the MACT team (Medical Assertive Clinical Team) provides direct treatment, rehabilitative and supportive services in a community setting to consumers. Works as a team member of a clinical team to assess consumer needs and wants, participates in the development of individual service plans, acts as a consumer advocate and liaisons with families and community agencies. Provides on-call crisis intervention services, as well as weekend and holiday coverage. Serves as the team's lead consumer advocate and mentor. Is a self-disclosed mental health consumer and is willing to provide a consumer's perspective of the team's service provision.
JOB SUMMARY (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO)

• Works as part of a clinical team to facilitate recovery and inspire hope for consumers while supporting their achievement of service plan goals. Provides ongoing assessment and feedback as to their progress in relation to their service plan, regardless of the consumer's current location.
• Meets with the consumers in the community in accordance with established policies and procedures and clinical protocols to provide supportive counseling skill development and other support services as needed.
• Works with consumer's Prescribing Clinician, Nurse, and other members of the clinical team to ensure the timely development and implementation of the individual's service plan (including all necessary assessments) and their crisis plan.
• Coordinates with all parties involved in consumer's treatment according to policy and procedure and clinical protocols, including but not limited to, attending inter and intra-agency staffing, communication by telephone and letter, service/support delivery etc, as indicated on the consumer's service plan.
• Assists consumers and families in accessing additional needed services and obtaining entitlements, including identification of funding services.
• Responsible for transporting consumers to necessary services, as outlined in their service plan, as needed.
• Assumes "primary contact" responsibility for a percentage of team consumers to: assure maintenance of accurate, thorough, and current documentation in the medical record (in accordance with policies, procedures, and clinical protocols) for those specific individuals; keep weekly client schedule for those individuals updates, and act as first contact for those consumers and their families.
• Documents all consumer events in accordance with policies, procedures, and clinical protocols.
• Participates in daily team meetings as well as any additional individual treatment teams or other team communication meetings as required.
• Works in collaboration with team members to assure compliance with ACT fidelity measures.
• Works in collaboration with the MACT Clinical Coordinator, other team members, and MACT consumers to develop and implement consumer run self-help groups.
• Assists team in identifying consumer perspectives and issues, which may be impacting individual consumer's recovery journey.
• Serves as a role model and mentor for consumers being served by the team.
• Keeps informed on local and national level consumer initiatives, and shares information as appropriate.
• To ensure compliance & adequate services, additional job duties may be required to meet the needs of the program and or department.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• High School Diploma, or GED.
• Must have completed an AZ approved Peer Employment training program and have recent certification as of 2013.
• Must have reliable transportation, valid AZ Driver's License with state minimum insurance coverage and ability to meet and maintain Copa Health's acceptable driving requirements.
• TB test clearance required at the time of hire and annually.
• Successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening
• Must have a fingerprint clearance card issued by the AZ Department of Public Safety or eligible to receive one within eight (8) weeks of hire.
• Satisfactory work record as determined by the Human Resources Department.

Copa Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer - All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law.