What are the responsibilities and job description for the Peer Specialist (MAT) Part-time position at Apalachee Center?
A Peer Specialist uses his or her lived experience to serve as a mentor to provide support for persons with severe persistent mental illness and or substance use disorder. This role will promote hope and set person-centered recovery-oriented goals. The role is non-clinical and does not include treatment, assessment and/or clinical evaluations of clients. It involves developing a relationship of trust that builds clients’ resilience, hope, recovery skills, and connects them to treatment services.
Essential/Core Job-specific Duties And Responsibilities
Essential/Core Job-specific Duties And Responsibilities
- Assist clients by using tools such as Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), in order to help clients, discover safe wellness tools and create a crisis/post-crisis plan.” Accomplish through regular meetings to help clients identify their own strengths and support them in using those strengths to communicate goals to staff and clinicians.
- Assist clients in working with their case manager and other clinician/prescriber in determining the steps to take to achieve the personal goals and self-directed recovery through individual and/or group setting. PS will support clients in finding and developing the self-directed recovery goals by providing skill building, based on personal strength, supports and resources to aid them in order to achieve those goals.
- Role model’s competency in recovery, resiliency, wellness strategies and other techniques to
- the clients as well as coworkers and other staff. Share own personal recovery journey story to role model the value of recovery and teach clients appropriate self-advocacy to help clients sustain recovery success.
- Completes documentation and other paperwork accurately within 48 hours of service delivery and routed to supervisor approval. Will be directed on appropriate documentation and reviewed by supervisor.
- Meets service productivity standard of at least 62.5% (or 5 out of 8 work hours) for the provision of peer services which are supported by appropriate clinical record documentation which meet Clinical Record Handbook specifications and Agency business/clinical ethics standards.
