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The Behavioral Health Certified Peer Specialist Consultant (BHCPSC) will support DBHIDS in the effort to ensure that provider agencies incorporate individuals receiving services in all phases of development, planning, and program evaluation. The Network Improvement and Accountability Collaborative (NIAC) BHCPSC will specialize in assessing peer inclusion, peer culture, person directed planning approaches, and other peer support services at each NIAC site visit.
The ideal candidate will be outgoing, engaging, and comfortable working with people of all ages from children to adults. The BHCPSC will have a working knowledge of the Philadelphia Behavioral Health System, to include mental health and alcohol and other drug recovery. The position requires the individual to draw upon one’s personal recovery experiences and capital when writing reports, conducting interviews and focus groups, and participating in planning and other workgroups.
The BHCPSC will be expected to provide the perspective of a person in recovery regarding peer inclusion in recovery-oriented practices within all levels of care. The BHCPSC will assist in and manage trainings for the NIAC team as it relates to participant-supported activities (WRAP planning, interacting with peers, etc.) as well as provide modeling to thc team members. Fundamentally, the BHCPSC will be directly involved in promoting hope and positive change within the behavioral health system.
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Equal Opportunity Employment:
PMHCC, Inc. is committed to equal opportunity. It is our policy to support equal employment for all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual preferences, age, national origin, disability, behavioral health status, military status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Americans with Disabilities Act:
Employees as well as applicants who are currently, or become disabled, must be able to perform the functions of the job with either reasonable accommodation or unaided. PMHCC, Inc. will examine reasonable accommodations on a case by case basis in accordance with the law.
Full Time
Investment Management
$67k-83k (estimate)
02/17/2024
05/12/2024
pmhcc.org
PHILADELPHIA, PA
100 - 200
1987
JIM BECKER
$50M - $200M
Investment Management
PMHCC, a not-for-profit organization, began as The Philadelphia Mental Health Care Corporation in 1987 for the City of Philadelphia in order to implement a major grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Program for Chronic Mental Illness. One of nine national grants, the funding was to assist the Philadelphia Office of Mental Health realize its vision for a unified mental health system to provide affordable housing, effective case management, and a broad range of psychosocial and vocational programs for people with mental illness. The objective included consolidating funding in a manage...d behavioral healthcare model. Over the years PMHCC's activities and responsibilities have broadened so that PMHCC serves as a major human services systems management company in support of several City of Philadelphia departments, while maintaining its core commitment to public behavioral health programs. Today, PMHCC makes a major contribution to Philadelphia's citizens by serving as an umbrella organization for special programs and initiatives, and providing critical administrative services to mental health, substance abuse, intellectual disabilities, human services, special health and related city offices and health programs.
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