What are the responsibilities and job description for the Peer Specialist #3066 position at Apalachee Center?
Apalachee Center, Inc. is best known for helping individuals and families of North Florida succeed in recovering from emotional, psychiatric, and substance abuse crises. Apalachee Center, Inc. provides comprehensive behavioral health services across 8 counties (Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor, and Wakulla Counties).
Apalachee Center, Inc. offers competitive benefits for our full-time positions to include health, dental, vision, basic life insurance, long term disability, paid time off, and more.
Overview
A Peer Specialist uses his or her lived experience to serve as a mentor to provide support for persons with severe persistent mental illness and or substance use disorder. This role will promote hope, include listening, provide encouragement and lessen the trauma of hospitalization. The role is non-clinical and does not include treatment, assessment and/or clinical evaluations of persons we serve. It involves developing a relationship of trust that builds peers’ resilience, hope, concepts of recovery, and may connect them to treatment services.
Essential/Core Job-specific Duties And Responsibilities
Apalachee Center, Inc. offers competitive benefits for our full-time positions to include health, dental, vision, basic life insurance, long term disability, paid time off, and more.
Overview
A Peer Specialist uses his or her lived experience to serve as a mentor to provide support for persons with severe persistent mental illness and or substance use disorder. This role will promote hope, include listening, provide encouragement and lessen the trauma of hospitalization. The role is non-clinical and does not include treatment, assessment and/or clinical evaluations of persons we serve. It involves developing a relationship of trust that builds peers’ resilience, hope, concepts of recovery, and may connect them to treatment services.
Essential/Core Job-specific Duties And Responsibilities
- Provide peer support services to assigned unit (i.e. EPH, PATH, DETOX and BEACH) units.
- Check-in with appropriate personnel, including clinicians, who may make suggestions as to who would be good to approach with peer support.
- Handle requests from other Peer Specialist to visit patients they are working with who have become inpatient.
- Role model’s competency in recovery, resiliency, wellness strategies and other techniques to the peers as well as coworkers and other staff. Share own personal recovery journey story to role model the value of recovery and teach peers appropriate self-advocacy to help peers sustain recovery success.
- Completes documentation and other paperwork accurately within 48 hours of service delivery and routed to supervisor approval. Will be directed on appropriate documentation and reviewed by supervisor. Will enter documentation in Avatar
