Family Peer Support Specialist

MRSS Youth or Family Peer Support Specialist

Part Time / Varied Hours

2000 Sign On Bonus plus Quarterly Productivity Bonus

Bellefaire JCB is among the nations largest, most experienced child service agencies providing a variety of mental health, substance abuse, education, and prevention services.

Position Summary :

We are hiring a Mobile Response Stabilization Services Youth or Family Peer Support Specialist to provide mobile response and stabilization services in conjunction with the entire MRSS team. Housed downtown for timely response, MRSS services are provided to youth (age 2-20) and families who have called the crisis hotline with a family identified crisis. Under the supervision of the MRSS supervisory team, the Peer Support Specialist will use their lived experience to assist families to navigate the crisis and connect to needed services during the stabilization phase of treatment. Some evening and weekend hours will be required.

Responsibilities Include :

• Engage youth and families in de-escalating the crisis and assess for risk.
• Provide occasional or ongoing peer support services during the stabilization phase of treatment with the youth and families for up to six weeks.
• Collaborates with other disciplines and services to meet client needs.
• Maintains a professional posture with clients and families that reflects courtesy, respect and the highest ethical standards.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the clinical record through the timely completion of assigned documentation in accordance with applicable licensing and accreditation regulations and standards.
• Respect the privacy of clients and hold in confidence all information obtained during the clients treatment according to HIPPA guidelines. All client-related documents should be handled in accordance with Agency guidelines on confidential material.

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Benefits :

At Bellefaire, we value our employees and the work they accomplish on behalf of our mission and offer competitive benefits such as :

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Bellefaire JCB is an equal opportunity employer, and hires its employees without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.

Bellefaire JCB is a partner agency of the Wingspan Care Group, a non-profit administrative service organization providing a united, community-based network of services so member agencies can focus on mission-related goals and operate in a more cost-effective and efficient manner.

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