Job Description

Our Company

SpringPath Mental Health Services

The Peer Support Specialist works within an interdisciplinary team intended to provide intensive, frequent, wrap-around services to individuals who have a diagnosis of serious and persistent mental illness. The Peer Support is assigned to persons served individualized treatment teams and work along-side other specialists in carrying out peer support interventions. As part of the person(s) served individualized treatment team, the Peer Support is responsible for conducting assessments that monitor the person(s) served’ s goals and functioning on an ongoing basis. The Peer Support typically sees approximately 16 to 20 persons served within 1 working week and is expected to communicate interactions with the person served at daily team meetings and documenting these interventions in the Electronic Health Record.

Responsibilities

• Conducts a crisis plan yearly and monitors persons served goal areas and functioning on an ongoing basis.
• Carries out peer support interventions in the community and effectively communicates each interaction to the team in daily team meetings, as well as in the electronic health record.
• Frequent activities may include resource maintenance and acquisition, coordination with external providers and natural supports, and having the unique ability to engage with persons served as a fellow peer support sharing in lived experiences.
• The Peer Support is part of crisis response at the lowest level of escalation, engages in risk mitigation and harm reduction practices.

Qualifications

• License which may be required based on education and standards determined by educational/degree guidelines.
• All Peer Recovery Specialists are supported in gaining certification as a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner and Certified Peer Specialist.
• The agency encourages staff to seek license at the highest standard permitted by their education and experience. Individuals who are pursuing certification may also be considered on a case-by-case basis.

About our Line of Business

SpringPath Mental Health Services assists individuals with emotional, behavioral, and psychiatric disorders which result in functional impairments in traditional day-to-day life activities. Our services focus on developing social skills, developing coping skills, being an active participant in the local community, offering community choice, and psychoeducation. We help individuals develop skills and access resources needed to live more positive, active and social lives. For more information, please visit www.springpathmentalhealth.com. Follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn.

Salary Range

USD $22.12 / Hour