Division:Eskenazi Health

Sub-Division: SEMHC

Req ID: 19878 

Schedule: Part Time 

Shift: Days 

Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center, Indiana's first community mental health center, provides comprehensive care for emotional and behavioral problems, including severe mental illness and substance abuse. The Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center offers both inpatient and outpatient services, including several outreach centers as well as clinic- and community-based services.

FLSA Status

Non-Exempt

Job Role Summary

The Peer Support Specialist interacts with clients with the goal to engage in services/treatment outside of the Engagement Center.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Proactively contributes to Eskenazi's mission: Advocate, Care, Teach and Serve with special emphasis on the vulnerable population of Marion County. Models Eskenazi values
• Meets with clients multiple times a day to provide ADL assistance
• Observes and documents patient functioning
• Interacts with clients with the goal to engage in services/treatment outside of the Engagement Center
• Provides the following:
  • social skills instruction
  • training in problem solving in daily living
  • crisis management and emergency interventions
  • written/electronic documentation of observations or interactions
  • understanding and support for clients that are under the influence of substances
  • assistance in maintaining a clean and safe environment

Job Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalence (GED)
• Experience in a human services area, teaching and observing
• Must be able to verify completion of state approved training program and passing score on certification exam

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Basic knowledge of behavioral health and addictions
• Knowledge of:
• community resources
• patient rights and responsibilities
• certified recovery specialist code of ethics

Meets the following basic competencies:

• Basic first aid/CPR
• Mental health and addictions
• Documentation and billing practice
• CPI
• Confidentiality process and procedure
• Annual education
• Legal issues
• OBHP eligible

Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center's primary mission is to serve individuals with serious mental illness and chronic addiction as well as seriously emotionally disturbed children and their families. Patients of all ages are welcomed, from children to seniors, with a philosophy of care that stresses strength-based and family- and community-centered treatment utilizing the Recovery Model of treatment.