What are the responsibilities and job description for the Residential Peer Support Specialist position at Vetted Solutions?
Provide compassionate peer support to individuals living in residential care settings by using your lived experience with mental health challenges to offer guidance, encouragement, and hope.
Key Duties
Key Duties
- Build supportive, respectful relationships with residents and model recovery-oriented attitudes.
- Use personal recovery experiences to help individuals set goals and develop coping strategies.
- Assist residents in navigating wellness resources, support services, and community connections.
- Promote engagement in mental health and recovery activities in a residential environment.
- Maintain professional boundaries, confidentiality, and trauma-informed communication.
- Successful personal recovery experience with mental health challenges.
- Strong empathy, active listening, and communication skills.
- Ability to support others with patience, integrity, and respect.
- Knowledge of recovery principles and ability to translate lived experience into support.
- Commitment to safety, confidentiality, and person-centered care.