What are the responsibilities and job description for the Peer Support Specialist position at Changing Lives Matter LLC?
We are looking for a Certified Peer Support Specialist to assist our company.
Peer Support Specialist responsibilities include the following
· Knowledge of peer support principles, values and ethics.
· Ability to share lived experiences to support, encourage and enhance a consumer's treatment and recovery.
· Possess recovery-oriented skills and knowledge to provide peer support services.
· Ability to collaborate with the program QP to assess their own strengths and areas of growth and develop a supervision plan.
· Ability to collaborate with a beneficiary to explore and identify barriers to accessing community resources or treatment providers.
· Ability to model and mento recovery values, attitudes, beliefs, and personal actions to encourage wellness and resilience for beneficiaries served and to promote a recovery enrollment in the community, residence, and workplace
· Ability to explore with a beneficiary served, the importance and creation of a wellness identity through open sharing and challenging viewpoints.
· Ability to promote a consumer's opportunity for personal growth by identifying teachable moments for building relationship skills to empower the consumer and enhance personal responsibility.
· Ability to model and share decisions making tools to enhance a beneficiary's health decision-making process.
· Ability to provide examples of healthy social interactions and facilitate familiarity with, and connection to, the local community.
· Ability to recognize and appropriately respond to conditions that constitute an emergency to include both physical and behavioral health crisis utilizing the emergency response procedure of employer.
· Ability to provide support to the consumer in navigating systems (medical, social services, or legal).
· Ability to promote self-advocacy by facilitating each consumer's learning about his or her human and legal rights and supporting the consumer while exercising those rights to support the empowerment of the consumer.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $14.00 - $19.00 per hour
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person
Salary : $14 - $19