CERTIFIED PEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST I AND II
Full Time
Minneapolis, MN 55430
Posted
Job description
Our Company:
SpringPath Mental Health Services
Overview:
The Certified Peer Specialist, while including internship of Community Health Worker, works as part of the Intensive Residential Treatment Service team, which provides care and treatment for persons who are experiencing significant mental health/psychiatric symptoms, who are demonstrating significant functional impairments, and who may have co-occurring chemical dependency and or personality disorder. Peer Specialists are fully integrated team members who provide individualized and group services in the residence and the community and promote client self-determination and decision making. Peer Specialists also provide essential expertise and consultation to the entire team to promote a culture in which each person’s point of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected, and integrated into treatment, rehabilitation, and community self-help activities.
Responsibilities:
- Willingly provides peer-recovery education
- Assist peers with assessing their unique strengths and abilities
- Helps peers with identifying, developing and working towards recovery goals
- Assists peers with developing self-advocacy skills
- Helps peers identify and access appropriate professional resources
- Acts as a community liaison
- Provides education for team members regarding the recovery process
- Assists in implementing and developing treatment goal plans
- Sits in case management meetings
- Provides care and resources for clients and staff on culture
- Serves as a link to community resources, teaches and models client self-advocacy and acts as a community liaison/educator
- Reports significant/major incidents or accidents
- Administers medication
- Adheres to data privacy practices/hipaa
- Writes progress notes and assists in summaries and discharges
- Monitors and records medication administration activities
- Provides objective verbal and written critical incident analysis
- Travels occassionally
- Must be at least 21 years old
- Have a GED or high school diploma, associate of arts degree in one of the behavioral sciences or human services preferred
- Have or had a primary diagnosis of mental illness
- Be current or former consumer of mental health services
- Demonstrate dedication to promoting recovery opportunities in lives of peers
- Demonstrate ability to utilize own lived experience of recovery to inspire recovery in the lives of peers
- Successfully complete the MN Department of Human Services approved Certified Peer Specialist training and certification exam
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- Excellent customer service skills
- Ability to prioritize, meet deadlines and multitask
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