What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Peer Specialist position at Child & Family Services, Inc.?
Summary
The Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) provides non-clinical, recovery-oriented peer support to Members receiving behavioral health services. Drawing appropriately on lived experience with behavioral health recovery, the CPS builds mutually supportive relationships, promotes hope, supports self-determination, and helps clients identify and pursue personal wellness and recovery goals. The CPS serves as a mentor, coach, advocate, and wellness liaison while honoring the client’s voice, choice, culture, identity, and chosen pathway of recovery.
SCHEDULE: MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-5:30PM or 10AM-6:30PM with one late night (11:30AM-8PM)
$1 per hour Language Differential! (eligible languages include: Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish or ASL)
Child & Family Services carefully considers a wide range of factors when determining compensation including, but not limited to, prior experience, education, certification(s), license(s), skills and expertise, location, internal equity and other factors that are job related and consistent with business need. Our goal is to support, reward and compensate the entire individual. Depending on role eligibility, your offer may include a bonus or other incentives. Therefore, final offer amounts may vary from the amount stated.
Job Responsibilities & Essential Functions
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
The Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) provides non-clinical, recovery-oriented peer support to Members receiving behavioral health services. Drawing appropriately on lived experience with behavioral health recovery, the CPS builds mutually supportive relationships, promotes hope, supports self-determination, and helps clients identify and pursue personal wellness and recovery goals. The CPS serves as a mentor, coach, advocate, and wellness liaison while honoring the client’s voice, choice, culture, identity, and chosen pathway of recovery.
SCHEDULE: MONDAY-FRIDAY 9AM-5:30PM or 10AM-6:30PM with one late night (11:30AM-8PM)
$1 per hour Language Differential! (eligible languages include: Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Spanish or ASL)
Child & Family Services carefully considers a wide range of factors when determining compensation including, but not limited to, prior experience, education, certification(s), license(s), skills and expertise, location, internal equity and other factors that are job related and consistent with business need. Our goal is to support, reward and compensate the entire individual. Depending on role eligibility, your offer may include a bonus or other incentives. Therefore, final offer amounts may vary from the amount stated.
Job Responsibilities & Essential Functions
- Provide a safe, welcoming, and clean environment for our clients and families
- Provide trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, person-centered care based on the unique needs of clients
- Participate in our Triage, Screening & Intake process with clients to ensure fidelity of same day access to services, including the completion of necessary documentation
- Assist clients and families with exploring and identifying areas of need, including housing, insurance, food assistance, educational, career, and other case management related needs
- Establish trusting, strength-based relationships with clients and support them as equals in their wellness and recovery journey.
- Use lived experience and appropriate self-disclosure in a safe, ethical, and purposeful manner to inspire hope and model recovery.
- Assist with the facilitation of our CBHC’s family and peer support services by sharing lived experience, strengths, and hope through individual, family, or group services as appropriate
- Provide clients and families with advocacy, coaching, training, support, and psychoeducation
- Complete internal and external referrals with clients based on their individualized needs, including links to peer/parent support and self-help groups, community resources, and pro-social activities
- Support clients in identifying goals, developing or updating wellness plans when appropriate, and building skills to sustain recovery
- Assist our clients and families with navigating systems within schools & community as appropriate
- Support transitions of care and engage in effective coordination of care across health and behavioral health services to facilitate wellness and recovery of the whole person, including outreach and engagement, and after-care planning
- Utilize evidence-based interventions, including motivational interviewing skills to empower clients and develop person-centered service plans as appropriate
- Provide crisis intervention and coordinate with Emergency Services as appropriate
- Serve as a community educator by providing psychoeducation to relevant community providers
- Deliver services in community-based, outpatient, home, workplace, crisis, diversionary, or remote settings when safe and appropriate.
- Provide temporary transportation support when available through the organization and when used to support essential peer, medical, behavioral health, or community-based appointments
- Maintain record-keeping as required by CFS, funding sources, and accreditation authorities
- Participate in all supervision and training activities as required by CFS, funding sources, and accreditation authorities
- Keep Evolv and Outlook Calendars up to date to support implementation of Centralized Scheduling
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Salary : $21 - $24