Certified Peer Support Specialist (Roxboro, NC)

Who we are

Pathways to Life is a local wellness organization committed to helping individuals and families achieve wellness. We specialize in mental health, substance abuse, outpatient services, laboratory testing, medication management, and community and in-home mental health services for adults and children.

What we believe

At Pathways to Life, our mission is to foster continual growth in the lives of those we serve, our colleagues, our culturally diverse communities, and ourselves. Our efforts enhance recovery, wellness, self-determination, and independence by providing person-centered supports, advocacy, and outreach efforts delivered with empathy and respect. Pathways prides itself on whole-person treatment, and we believe in providing our clients and staff with as many healthy resources as possible.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for someone in sustained personal recovery from mental illness and/or substance use disorder who wants to turn that experience into support for others walking a similar path. This is a community-based role, you'll meet people where they are, not in an office. So we're looking for someone who's comfortable and confident doing recovery work in homes, shelters, emergency departments, and other everyday settings around Person County.

Essential Duties:

Knowledge of peer support principles, values, and ethics.

• Knowledge of peer support principles, values, and ethics.

• Ability to share lived experience to support, encourage and enhance a beneficiary's treatment and recovery.

• Possess recovery-oriented skills and knowledge to provide peer support services.

• Ability to collaborate with a beneficiary to explore and identify barriers to accessing community resources or treatment providers

• Ability to collaborate with the program QP to assess their own strengths and areas of growth and develop a supervision plan.

• Ability to model and mentor recovery values, attitudes, beliefs, and personal actions to encourage wellness and resilience for beneficiaries served and to promote a recovery environment in the community, residence, and workplace.

• Ability to explore with a beneficiary served, the importance and creation of a wellness identity through open sharing and challenging viewpoints

• Ability to promote a beneficiary's opportunity for personal growth by identifying teachable moments for building relationship skills to empower the beneficiary and enhance personal responsibility.

• Ability to model and share decision-making tools to enhance a beneficiary's healthy decision-making process.

• Ability to provide examples of healthy social interactions and facilitate familiarity with, and connection to, the local community.

• Ability to recognize and appropriately respond to conditions that constitute an emergency to include both physical and behavioral health crises utilizing the emergency response procedure of the employer.

• Ability to provide support to the beneficiary in navigating systems (medical, social services, or legal).

• Ability to promote self-advocacy by facilitating each beneficiary's learning about his or her human and legal rights and supporting the beneficiary while exercising those rights to support the empowerment of the beneficiary.

POSITIONS SUPERVISED: N/A

LEVEL OF EDUCATION/TRAINING/QUALIFICATIONS:

• NC Certified Peer Support Specialist (NCCPSS) credential; 

• personal lived experience of mental illness and/or SUD with sustained recovery; 

• HS diploma/GED; 

• clean NC Healthcare Personnel/Central Registry check.

Pathways to Life, Inc. offers comprehensive compensation and benefits to full-time employees, including:

• Competitive compensation with regular performance feedback.
• Healthcare insurance, including medical, dental, and vision.
• Paid time off
• Per diem and part-time options available

Physical Demands

• Regularly walk, stand, or stoop.

• Occasionally lift, carry, push, or pull objects weighing up to 25 pounds.

• Regularly drive a motor vehicle.

• Must be physically able to complete NCI-B and CPR training.

If you are ready to lead a team dedicated to making a real difference in the lives of the people we serve, please apply today to join our team.