- Attend all meetings/training required by Communicare and the Department of Mental Health.
- Maintain certification as a Peer Support Specialist.
- Work collaboratively with other mental health staff.
- Provide peer support services for assigned individuals receiving services as determined by individual need.
- Assist in the orientation process for new individuals receiving services.
- Support individuals receiving services in transition to increase access to and utilization of supports and resources.
- Transport clients as needed.
- Improve communication between individuals receiving services and service providers.
- Improve the team's understanding of lived experience, recovery, and resilience through modeling personal responsibility, self-advocacy, and hopefulness.
- Maintain current documentation of services in the individual's files.
- Make home/community visits when beneficial to clients.
- Accompany individuals receiving services to appointments as needed
- Provides crisis supports by listening to the individual and collaborating with the treatment team.
- Support individuals receiving services in taking an active self-directing role in their recovery.
- Adhere to other duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and/or associated Program Coordinator/Director.
- Medical Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Life/AD&D/Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Dental/Vision/Term Life/Cancer coverage available
- Retirement Plan
- 403-B
- 403-B matching
- 11 Holidays per year
- 15 Annual Leave days per year (18 days after 3 years of employment)
- 15 Sick Leave per year
- Professional Development leave
- Jury leave
- Military leave
- 1. High School Diploma or GED; or, if ages 16-20, must be actively enrolled in school or GED program
- 2. Have transportation, hold a valid driver's license, have automobile insurance, and have a safe driving record.
- 3. Identifies self as a current or former mental health consumer with a sustained period of self-directed recovery or be a first-degree family member of a former or current consumer.
- 4. Ability to successfully complete DMH and Center trainings
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Peer Support Specialist - Oxford, United States - Communicare
Description
:Communicare is a community mental health center in North Central Mississippi that serves Calhoun, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Tate, and Yalobusha counties. Communicare offers specialized treatment services for adults with serious mental illness, children with serious emotional disturbances, individuals with substance abuse disorders and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Communicare is currently seeking three Peer Support Specialists to work overnight and alternating weekends in Oxford, MS.
Responsibilities for a Peer Support Specialist: Provides a variety of recovery-oriented services to individuals admitted into a crisis stabilization unit, in order to improve independence, community integration, and recovery from mental illness and or substance abuse. Services provided by peers (consumers or family members) include a wide range of supports, services, and advocacy that contribute to a client's ability to engage in ongoing treatment and attain their individualized goals for recovery.
Duties:
Because we are the people who care, Communicare offers the following benefits for full-time Peer Support Specialist:
This position is expected to last for approximately 12 months.
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