Job Summary: The Peer Support Specialist - BH will use their personal growth experience to carry the message of hope and recovery to individuals that are being serviced throughout our Behavioral Health continuum of care. This position will also provide consumer support services to their families in order to assist in the process of patients maintaining their personal recovery and wellness.

Essential Job Functions & Accountabilities:

1. Supports consumers in articulating the objectives necessary to reach their recovery and wellness goals.
2. Supports consumer in determining recovery and wellness interventions based on consumers' life goals.
3. Utilizes peer oriented techniques with patients. Techniques could include: teaching patients techniques, such as keeping wellness journals or recovery inventories; meeting with patients individually and in recovery support groups, conducting panel presentations to provide the patient perspective to physicians, nurses, medical and nursing students and other hospital staff; conducting evidence?based self-help training sessions with patients. (Examples of EBPs include Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP), Chronic Disease Self-Management).
4. Supports non-consumer staff in identifying program environments that are conducive to recovery; lend their unique insight into mental illness and what makes recovery possible.
5. Informs consumers about community and natural supports and how to utilize these in the recovery process.
6. Works collaboratively with treatment team members.
7. Refers and assists clients in obtaining necessary supportive services and provide input concerning service shortfalls and successes.
8. Job description is not an all-inclusive list of duties and may be subject to change with or without notice. Staff are expected to perform other duties as assigned.
9. Must be able to complete all job duties and functions of the role with or without assistive/adaptive devices, and/or reasonable accommodations.
10. Work environments may differ based on job functions and location. Work is subject to schedule changes and/or variable work hours.