• Must be at least 21 years of age
• Must have primary diagnosis of mental illness, be a current or former consumer of mental health services, must demonstrate leadership and advocacy skills, and have a strong dedication to recovery.
• Credentialed as a DHS Certified Peer Specialist.
• Preferred: Hold a Bachelors degree in the behavioral sciences and have 2000 hours of experience working with adults with serious persistent mental illness

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Provide peer counseling and support to validate clients’ experiences.
• Have a strong dedication to recovery.
• Provide guidance and encouragement to clients to take responsibility and actively participate in their own recovery.
• Serve as a mentor to clients to promote hope and empowerment.
• Help non-mental health consumer team members, and others as appropriate, to better understand and empathize with each client’s unique and subjective experience and perception.
• Provide expertise and consultation from a mental health consumer perspective to the entire team.
• Collaborate with the team to promote a team culture in which client self-determination, client decision-making in treatment planning, and protection of client rights are supported.
• Assist in the provision of ongoing assessment of clients’ mental illness symptoms and clients’ response to treatment.
• Assist in the provision of direct clinical services to clients on an individual, group, and family basis. Teach symptom-management techniques and promote personal growth and development with mental health issues and substance abuse issues.
• Assist, teach, and support clients with activities of daily living, vocational skills, accessing housing, maintaining financial supports, and utilizing buses and other transportation in the community.
• Provide side-by-side support, coaching and encouragement to help clients socialize and carry out leisure time activities on evenings, weekends, and holidays. Organize and lead individual and group social and recreational activities and provide opportunities to practice social skills.
• Attend and participate in all scheduled team meetings.
• Complete all paperwork, reports, and charting contemporaneously and in an organized manner.
• Participate actively in on-going professional growth and development; maintain appropriate professional behavior and participate in appropriate supervision.
• Maintain a pattern of regular work hours.
• Must be able to transport clients in the community.
• Other duties as assigned. 

CEU Requirements: 

• 30 Continuing Education (CEU) Credits every 2 years.

Competencies:

• Knowledge of symptoms and the course of serious and persistent mental illness as well as medications and other therapies.
• Knowledge of current principles, practices and techniques of case management.
• Knowledge of community resources.
• Have knowledge of evidence-based clinical practices.
• Have demonstrable working knowledge of vulnerable adult laws and other pertinent rules and regulations.
• Be knowledgeable about and utilize various substance abuse treatment modalities such as harm reduction and motivational interviewing.
• Knowledge of supportive counseling techniques, independent living skills/teaching and crisis intervention techniques.
• Assess and manage crisis situations.
• Utilizes crisis assessment tools for suicidal and aggressive behavior.
• Develop appropriate therapeutic relationship with clients.
• Able to use a computer for word-processing and data base management.
• Must have good interpersonal skills and ability to work independently and be part of an ACT team. 
• Be able to speak, clearly understand and write the English language.
• Must have a valid MN driver’s license and a reliable functioning car.
• Be able to accommodate flexible work hours.

Essential Physical Functions:

• Type frequently.
• Drive frequently.
• Sit often.
• Stand occasionally.
• Walk frequently.
• Climb flights of stairs.
• Lift 40 pounds or more.

RADIAS Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, status as protected veteran, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other protected class status.