What are the responsibilities and job description for the Peer Support Specialist, Acute Care Services Mobile Crisis - Get a FREE Master’s Degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling! position at Center for Life Management?
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Our mission at Center for Life Management (CLM) is to change lives and save lives. In Acute Care Services we achieve this daily and get to find the joy is seeing progress in the short-term treatment we provide, treatment works! We accomplish safe decisions through building skills associated to theory-based suicide assessment, and effective / proven clinical interviewing styles for crisis assessment. To ensure supportive and effective management of the crisis to produce change we use peer supports, person centered care, whole health approach, trauma informed care we work with clients. Our extensive training, supervision, collaborative team and supportive organization help us to build employee longevity while also helping us maintain one of the largest Mobile Crisis teams in the state. If you want a healthy challenge while you change and save lives, come and join our dynamic team.
Center for Life Management’s Acute Care Services (ACS) Department provides telephone crisis assessment, family consultation, emergency assessment, regional rapid response, crisis stabilization, and hospital coordination for admittance and discharge, as medically necessary, to youth, adults and elders. Our practice serves Southern New Hampshire as the regions designated mental health center. The ACS Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT) specifically offers community-based supports to individuals in need wherever they are albeit at home, work, or anywhere else in the community where the person is experiencing a mental health crisis. Our services are specifically aimed at diverting individuals from emergency room care, unnecessary hospitalizations, and incarceration by collaborating with first responders, health care providers and community-based agencies to stabilize a psychiatric crisis and initiate immediate treatment.
The Peer Specialist on this multi-disciplinary team will transform our mental health system and build strong connections with our clients through skillful use of lived experience. This is a full-time position, requiring 36 hours per week, with a schedule of three 12-hour shifts : Wednesday (day shift), Thursday (day shift), and Friday (overnight shift).
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Major Functional Areas and Description of Duties
- Provide perspective and understanding of client’s experiences including : symptoms of mental illness, effects and side-effects of medications, responses to and opinions of treatment, self and culture-wide stigma and discrimination, and experiences of recovery;
- Provide peer counseling to promote hope, responsibility, effective decision making, active participation in treatment and recovery processes, and participation in consumer self-help programs / consumer advocacy organizations;
- Utilize a framework of Trauma-Informed Care and actively seek to determine whether the client has experienced trauma so that effective implementation of support can be applied;
- Be a role model and inspire recovery by instilling hope, building trust, demonstrating empathy, being present, and listening to client’s needs to set client-centered goals, collaborate on care, answer questions about and foster engagement in treatment;
- Link client and / or natural supports with appropriate community mental health resources that best fit the presenting problems as well as level of motivation and stage of change;
- Maintain contact with clients for a set period of time after a crisis to ensure connection has been made with agreed upon referral sources and additional education / supports are provided beyond the immediate amelioration of the crisis;
- Provide set hours of billable service each week to meet client care needs;
- Follow all SAMHSA Core Competencies of Peer Support;
- Work collaboratively with other treatment team members, natural supports, and external providers to ensure a wrap-around care is provided to the client;
- Serve on appropriate committees, both internal and external, as determined by supervisor;
- Function professionally and in a manner that protects the integrity, confidentiality and rights of all patients;
- Execute all required services and timely documentation in accordance with agency policies and federal / state standards;
- Maintain professional memberships, licenses, accreditation, certifications, etc.;
- Represent CLM in a professional and appropriate manner in all settings;
- Perform all other duties as assigned by supervisor.
Qualifications and Skills
Physical Demands and Working Conditions
Work takes place in the community, within the client’s home, and at the office. Manual dexterity is needed to use computers and standard office equipment. The ability to sit for extended periods of time is required. The ability to sit for extended periods of time is required. Reliable transportation, a clean driving record, and proof of auto insurance coverage is required.
Benefits
At Center for Life Management we offer a robust benefits package because caring for our staff is just as important as caring for our clients. Benefits for benefits eligible employees include :
The Center for Life Management has partnered with New England College to offer a Master’s Degree! This is an exciting opportunity for CLM staff to earn a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (MS) degree in 3 years.
Who’s Eligible and What’s Required :
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