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LifeWorks Austin is Hiring a Part Time Peer Support Specialist Near Austin, TX
** Part Time Peer Support Specialist**
**Job Category****:** Peer Support Specialist **Requisition Number****:** PEERS01011 Showing 1 location **Job Details**
**Description**
LifeWorks is a nonprofit organization dedicated to being fearless advocates for youth and families seeking their path to self-sufficiency. We are committed to innovative problem solving, shared accountability, and a relentless focus on achieving real, sustainable, and measurable results for the clients we serve. Every member of our staff serves a meaningful purpose linked to our client's experience. Careers at LifeWorks offer opportunities for personal and professional growth and development while making an immediate difference in the lives of youth and families in our community.
LifeWorks is looking for a resilient and motivating full time Peer Support Specialist for our Community-Based Services team. The Peer Support Specialist will conduct outreach and engage those seeking or sustaining recovery. Through the process of coaching and group counseling, the Peer Support Specialist promotes recovery by helping to remove barriers, connect to the recovery community, and engage in supportive services. The Peer Support Specialist promotes resiliency and accountability and helps others initiate or achieve long-term recovery to enhance quality of life, health, and wellness.
Community-Based Services focuses on transition-age youth, ages 16-26, who have experienced traumatic life events, frequently exacerbated by involvement in the foster care or criminal justice systems, homelessness, growing up in extreme poverty, or coming from a military family. The objective of Community-Based Services is to remove or reduce barriers to transition-age youth healing from trauma and recovering from mental health or substance use challenges, instill hope, and encourage self-sufficiency in order for them to reach their full potential.
**SCHEDULE**
20 hours a week - between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm, Monday - Friday. May be required to work some evenings.
**DUTIES**
* Promotes recovery, resiliency, and accountability to help others initiate or achieve long-term recovery to enhance quality of life, health, and wellness.
* Meets with individual clients or collaterals, as needed, to establish a safe, healthy relationship for learning, problem-solving, and participating in community activities; assists clients in building a network of support; makes referrals and coordinates client services, as appropriate.
* Facilitates support groups in community sites through the implementation of program curricula, experiential activities, presentations and discussions, field trips and/or skill-based activities.
* Plans, develops, and provides recovery-related presentations and outreach on a variety of topics, such as substance abuse and disease prevention/intervention, health/mental health promotion, trauma and recovery, community resources, relationship-building, and coping strategies.
* Advocates for clients within the community as well as internally to ensure that client needs are being recognized, represented, and addressed.
* Develops and maintains positive working relationships with agency staff and community contacts such as referral sources, recovery community organizations, peer-run programs in non-recovery organizations, and other service providers.
* Prepares documentation of plans and activities to ensure compliance with contracts and agency requirements. Assesses and documents client progress toward recovery goals.
* Maintains approved non-clinical supervision and continuing education.
**QUALIFICATIONS**
* Requires a GED or HS Diploma; and
* Requires 2 years of related individual and group support experience; and
* Requires having maintained own recovery over the last 2-year period.
* Requires a certification as a qualified Peer Supporter. Certification can be achieved within 6 months of hire.
* Must have a valid driver's license.
* Must have a reliable personal vehicle to use for transportation during work hours.
**Qualifications**
**Skills**
**Behaviors**
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**Motivations**
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**Education**
**Required**
High School or better.
**Experience**
**Required**
**2 years:** Group support experience or related
**Licenses & Certifications**
Job Summary
Part Time
Social & Legal Services
$47k-61k (estimate)
08/28/2023
09/10/2023
lifeworksaustin.org
SAN DIEGO, CA
100 - 200
1998
STEPHANIE BAZAN
$10M - $50M
Social & Legal Services
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About LifeWorks Austin
We believe in the transformational power of acceptance. As an Austin nonprofit focused on helping youth and young adults, we work every year with thousands of young men and women whove endured circumstances that are unimaginable. Abuse. Neglect. Abandonment. Violence. Many have endured years of moving from one foster care placement to another without ever knowing a single adult that they could depend on. Others have had to survive years of unstable or unsafe family situations. And far too many are forced into homelessness to escape intolerable circumstances for the "freedom" of life on the str...eets. Weve all seen the depressing statistics. But what can be done to make an impact on these statistics? More important, what are we willing to do to turn around the very real lives behind the statistics? We are fearless in our commitment to success. From our emergency shelter and counseling services to our education services, workforce training and transitional living everything we do is focused on creating self-sufficient individuals, and in turn, strong, stable families. LifeWorks Youth & Family Alliance offers more than 20 programs that can be accessed alone or in combination to help our youth and families achieve self-reliance. This comprehensive approach quickly identifies and initiates the right mix of services to support each clients individual goals by bringing together all of the strengths of LifeWorks in a focused, actionable framework. Empowering better futures requires proven, measurable results. We do not shy away from data. We embrace it. Its why we use a results-based accountability model to assess the impact and effectiveness of our services. It is also why we are one of the only area nonprofits accredited by the Council on Accreditation for Services to Children and Families. Because we know that all our passion, commitment and hard work must produce consistent, measurable, positive outcomes for our organization to make an impact.
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