What are the responsibilities and job description for the PEER SPECIALIST position at Apis Services, Inc.?
Certified Peer Specialist-Conexio Care-$16.50
Founded in 1985 as a subsidiary of the organization then known as Church Home Foundation, Conexio's original mission was to help older adults with lifelong histories of psychiatric hospitalization to transition into the community. Our mission expanded in 1988 to include homeless services and substance abuse treatment.
Today, Conexio Care serves as one of Delaware's largest nonprofits, collaborating with government, community, corporate, and other philanthropic partners to maximize services for our state's most vulnerable citizens.
The Peer Specialist is a person who is recovering from a mental health and / or substance use condition(s), and is responsible for providing peer support to other individuals who are receiving services for those conditions. The Peer Specialist will provide support that is trauma-informed based on three principles; learning versus helping, relationship versus the individual, and hope and possibility versus fear. The Peer Specialist works on an interdisciplinary team and provide advocacy, insight, and support to other team members and service recipients about the successes and challenges faced by individuals who are living with mental health and / or substance use condition(s). Peer should be certified or willing to work on their certification
Duties of the position :
- Provides transportation to consumers, as scheduled by program administrator
- Uses lived experiencing with a mental illness, substance use, or co-occurring disorders to assist in supporting clients in their recovery path
- Helps clients aspire to roles which emphasize their strengths by sharing their own personal story and provide mutual support, hope, reassurance and advocacy
- Provides peer support to clients regarding their symptoms and the effects of trauma and trauma history, and helping them to develop positive coping skills
- Engages clients through outreach and support
- Promotes recovery through modeling his / her own person story, self-confidence, achievements, and self-determination, and the use of natural supports
- Provides training and education to other team members on recovery-oriented care, peer support resources, psychiatric advance directives, wellness tools, trauma informed care, and the use of creativity and the arts to promote recovery
- Attends interdisciplinary team meetings
- Engage clients into different community activities and resources
- Assists person served to complete peer-related elements of the assessment and to prepare to attend their recovery plan meeting and to express their goals and needs
- Assists clients to accomplish their life goals of living in their chosen housing and community, working, having a natural support system, and having hobbies and other leisure activities which are creative and fun.
- Helps clients and staff to develop and implement person-centered treatment plans.
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Apis Services, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Inperium, Inc.) provides a progressive platform for delivering Shared Services to Inperium and its Constellation of affiliate companies.
Apis Services provides equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment in compliance with all federal and all applicable state and local laws and regulations, including nondiscrimination in hiring and employment.
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