Summary:
The Peer Support Specialist is responsible for providing coaching, mentoring, and consultation to the beneficiary to promote recovery, self-advocacy, and self-direction. As a Peer Support Specialist, you will be responsible for providing essential expertise and consultation to the entire interdisciplinary healthcare team to promote a culture in which each individual’s point of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected, and integrated into treatment, rehabilitation, and community self-help activities while serving as an advocate for clients. Peer Support services are structured and scheduled activities for adults aged 18 and older with MH/SA disability. Peer Support Staff provide Peer Supports. Peer Support service is an individualized, recovery focused approach that promotes the development of wellness self-management, personal recovery, natural supports, coping skills, and self-advocacy skills and development of independent living skills for housing, employment, and full community inclusion.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This position does not oversee staff.
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education/Experience
Required Skills/Abilities
• Be available to collaborate with enrolled members at least 5 days per week.
• Document direct service delivery according to Medicaid and CSEUC standards to include: purpose of contact, describes the provider’s interventions, the time spent performing the intervention, the effectiveness of the interventions, the signature (degree, credentials or position) of the person providing the service in a weekly service note.
• Ability to read a medical record and find pertinent information quickly.
• Ability to write complete service notes.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from consumers, and/or the public.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Work is performed primarily in the client’s living environment and in the community and may involve exposure to cigarette smoke, domestic animals/pets, household pests, uncomfortable heating/cooling, and other issues related to the domestic location in which service is delivered.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; talk and hear; and taste and smell. The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit and climb or balance. The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 20 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Must be able to drive and operate a personal vehicle safely and adhere to all applicable state and traffic laws.
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