Job Description

Location: Cape Girardeau, MO (Cape County)

Pay: $16.42 - $18.82 per hour (Depending on experience) + shift differentials

Schedule: Full - Time, Non - Exempt, Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30m, Some evenings may be required as necessary dependent upon agency and client need.

What is Peer Support?

Peer support encompasses a range of activities and interactions between people who share similar experiences of being diagnosed with mental health conditions, substance use disorders, or both. This mutuality-often called "peerness"-between a peer support worker and person in or seeking recovery promotes connection and inspires hope. Peer support offers a level of acceptance, understanding, and validation not found in many other professional relationships (Mead & McNeil, 2006). By sharing their own lived experience and practical guidance, peer support workers help people to develop their own goals, create strategies for self-empowerment, and take concrete steps towards building fulfilling, self-determined lives for themselves.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma/GED/HSE
• Must self identify as a former or current consumer of mental health, behavioral health, substance use, or co-occurring disorder services, and must hold, or be eligible to obtain within 75 days of starting, a valid Certified Peer Specialist Credential from the Missouri Credentialing Board.
• Must hold Valid Driver's License (Class E for Missouri or Class D for IL Residents - Obtain on start date) and current continuous auto insurance.

Job Summary: Responsible to perform a wide range of tasks in emergency, outpatient or inpatient settings that are designed to assist clients in recovery and living in the community by sharing your own personal experience in dealing with mental illness/co-occurring substance use and your own personal recovery experience.

Job Duties:

1. Share their personal experience with mental illness/co-occurring substance use and their own personal recovery experience.
2. Promote the idea and concept of recovery and serve as a role model.
3. Interact directly with clients, both individually and as a group.
4. Help identify client's individual warning signs and help develop ways to prevent relapse to avoid hospitalizations and develop insight into their illness plus understand their experience with mental illness/co-occurring substance use.
5. Develop support systems and connect clients with peer support/self-help groups.
6. Assist staff to understand recovery, the importance of recovery-based services and the value of the experience lived by individuals with mental illness/co-occurring substance use.
7. Responsible for transporting clients in agency and/or personal vehicle as deemed necessary and appropriate to meet program requirements.
8. Provide client's point of view at team meetings, treatment planning meetings, and psychiatric visits.
9. Document according to clinical policies and procedures, DMH, CARF, and any other federal or state program per agency standards.

Our Benefits:

Note: Benefits may vary depending on hours worked.

• 24 Paid Days Off Your First Year + get a day off for your birthday!
• Seven Paid Holidays
• Competitive Health, Dental, Vision, and Supplemental Insurance
• Company Paid Life and LTD Insurance
• Retirement Auto - Enrollment
• Employee Referral Program
• Much More!

Community Counseling Center (CCC) is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristics protected by law.

CCC will consider requests for reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, etc. please contact employment@cccntr.com to speak with us about your needs.