FEP Certified Youth Peer Specialist

Job Description:  FEP Youth Peer Specialist will work with the NOVA team to address the critical domains of functioning for youth/young adults, to include working, learning, living, belonging and healing through a strengths-based individualized team process that facilitates progress and strengthens resiliency.

What you'll be doing:

• Participate in one-on-one meetings with supervisor to discuss ideas, difficulties, suggestions, and expectations.
• Participate as an equal and active member of the multi-disciplinary team
• Attend treatment team meetings with the youth/young adult to promote the individual’s use of self-directed advocacy goals.
• Promote self-determination, recovery, resilience, self-advocacy, and self-direction. Assist the youth and young adults in identifying their strengths, wellness goals, setting objectives, goal planning and identifying barriers.
• Facilitate small groups. Groups to be made of 3-5 individuals and focus on topics related to recovery: Coping Techniques, Health Teaching, Spirituality, and Social Interaction.
• Plan and research for small groups and interest activities.
• Facilitate interest activities. Activities should be centered on the interest of the group of individuals. Activities should be voluntary and can be used as a reward. The activities must be done in the wards and can be on any topic.
• Participate in one-one-one relationship building with youth/young adults. Activities to be done in the community.
• Provide intensive support through a personalized balance of social, recreational, skill teaching and linkage development services for individual relationships with youth and young adults.
• Facilitate understanding between client and clinician.
• Give alternate, experienced based points of view.
• Provide accurate documentation as stipulated by program demands.
• 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:

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Training and experience leading to acquiring the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities.
• Must become certified as a Certified Peer Specialist by completing Department of Mental Health (DMH) approved training(s).
• Must understand and endorse a recovery-oriented approach to providing services.
• Must have personal lived experience with a mental illness diagnosis and psychosis and be willing to share your journey of learning the importance of mental health recovery, stabilization, and treatment adherence.

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.