Job Description

Job Location: Newton, KS 67114Your Journey is Your Greatest Strength
Are you someone who has navigated the challenges of mental health or substance use recovery? Have you turned your personal trials into a source of wisdom and resilience? At our organization, we don’t just "accept" lived experience—we value it as a professional asset.
We are looking for a Peer Support Specialist to join our Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team. In this role, you aren’t just a provider; you are a beacon of hope. You will work alongside a multidisciplinary team to support adults with serious mental illness and co-occurring challenges, helping them build independent, meaningful lives in their own communities.
Why This Role Matters
The ACT team provides non-traditional, community-based care designed to meet people where they are—literally. By providing support in participants' homes and neighborhoods, we reduce emergency room visits and hospital stays, replacing crisis with stability.
As a Peer Support Specialist, you will:
- Bridge the Gap: Use your own recovery story to build authentic connections that clinicians cannot.
- Empower Others: Help participants find their "inner wisdom," combat negative self-talk, and advocate for the services they truly want.
- Model Wellness: Demonstrate firsthand that recovery isn't just possible—it’s happening.
What You Will Do
- Mentorship: Help participants develop support networks and articulate what "wellness" looks like for them.
- Skill Building: Teach daily living skills and facilitate group activities that strengthen recovery.
- Advocacy: Assist participants in creating Person-Centered Plans and Wellness Recovery Action Plans (WRAP).
- Community Integration: Work mobile-first, spending the majority of your time in the community or participants' homes.
- Team Collaboration: Participate in team meetings and clinical supervision to ensure the best care for our participants.
Who You Are
- Resilient: You have personally navigated the mental health system or recovery process and have reached a place of stability where you are ready to help others do the same.
- Empathetic & Culturally Aware: You can interact sensitively with people from all walks of life and cultures.
- Professional & Organized: You can manage your own schedule, complete documentation (progress notes/E-time) within required timeframes, and maintain strict confidentiality.
- Flexible: You are comfortable working in a non-traditional setting and are available for a 7-day on-call rotation once every 6-8 weeks.
The Essentials
- Productivity: You’ll maintain a steady pace of 24–27 goal-directed encounters per week.
- Communication: You practice "healing communication" and know how to share your story strategically to benefit the participant’s growth.
- Boundaries: You understand the importance of maintaining healthy, professional boundaries while working with adults in the community.
Ready to turn your lived experience into a career that changes lives? We invite you to bring your authentic self, your history of overcoming trauma, and your passion for recovery to our ACT team.

Qualifications
- Minimum Education:  High school diploma or equivalent; certification, or ability to become certified upon being hired, in the State of Kansas to provide the Peer Support Worker service, which includes criminal, abuse/neglect registry and professional background checks, and completion of a state approved standardized basic training program
- Minimum

Experience:  Provider must self-identify as a present or former primary client of mental health services
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Must have excellent communication skills listening, verbal, and written
- Must be able and willing to be flexible, a self starter, punctual, and have the ability to maintain a schedule
- Must have a valid Kansas driver’s license, be insurable through Prairie View insurance company, and be willing to provide transportation to patients as needed
- Must have ability to maintain professional boundaries with peers
- Must be proficient at basic keyboarding/word processing skills
- Must be able to pass Kansas Bureau of Investigation Screen and the Central Registry Screen for both adults and children