FEP Certified Parent Peer Support Specialist

Job Description: The FEP Certified Parent Peer Specialist will support and coach parents and caregivers by sharing your lived experience and promoting recovery, resilience, and healthy lifestyles. You will offer them effective techniques to improve self-management and decision-making for themselves and their child, to positively impact the health and well-being of their family.

What you'll be doing:

• All six of the following PEARLS (Program to Encourage Active, Rewarding Lives) meta-skills competencies listed below should be reliably and consistently demonstrated in each and every interaction with the parent.
• Provide support and reassurance, followed by information, to assist parent/primary caregiver in navigating child-serving systems and community resources as well as quality and supervision standards as determined by clinical leadership
• Establish and maintain positive and effective working relationships with internal staff, community resources and stakeholders
• Responsible for understanding and adhering to all internal policies & procedures, training expectations and AHCCCS covered services guide
• Provide authentic and purposeful support to parents /primary caregivers
• Support parents/primary caregivers in achieving their identified goals
• Deliver intentional support activities that build on the strengths and resiliency traits of parent/primary caregiver
• Collaborate with agency staff internally and representatives from community-based organizations and child-serving systems in providing support to families receiving services.
• Complete other duties as assigned.

This job description is only a summary of the typical functions of the job and is not designed to be an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible duties, tasks, or responsibilities that are required of the employee as they may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

What we're looking for:   

• Must be a parent/primary caregiver with lived experience who has raised or is currently raising a child with emotional, behavioral, physical or mental health or substance abuse needs, has experience navigating at least two child-serving systems, and meets the requirement to function as a BHT or BHPP.
• Must have capacity to work flexible hours including some evening/weekend availability based on the needs of the parent.
• Must be able drive to families’ homes, community events, and meetings at service provider offices or schools as needed.
• May provide transportation to parents and family members as necessary to complete support goals as allowable in the Covered Services Guide.
• Must have skills necessary to engage and work with others from diverse ethnic and cultural groups.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Must have basic typing/computer processing skills.
• Must have good organizational and time management skills.
• Must have High School Diploma or G.E.D.
• Must be at least 21 years old.
• Must be able to obtain fingerprint clearance card.
• Must have a valid driver’s license, dependable transportation, and proof of automobile insurance.
• Read, understand, and abide by agency Policies and Procedures, Employee Handbook and Training Expectation.

We are compassionate towards those impacted by behavioral health disorders.

We are dedicated to one another through collaboration and teamwork.

We are optimistic problem-solvers who do what it takes to get the job done.