What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Peer Support Specialist position at Physician Alliance for Mental Health?
Program: Peer Support Services
Position: Certified Peer Support Specialist
Education/Experience Requirements:
-High School Diploma or equivalent
-Must be Certified by NC board as a Peer Support Specialist (verified by https://pss.unc.edu/verification)
-At least six-months of experience working with Adult MH population
CPSS Job Responsibilties:
· 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 the program QP to assess their own strengths and areas of growth and develop a supervision plan
· Ability to collaborate with a beneficiary to explore and identify barriers to accessing community resources or treatment providers
· 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 decisions-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 crisis utilizing the emergency response procedure of 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.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $15.50 per hour
Expected hours: 40.0 per week
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Preferred)
Experience:
- Adult Mental Health: 1 year (Preferred)
License/Certification:
- NC Driver's License (Required)
- PSS Certification is NC (Required)
Work Location: In person
Salary : $16