What are the responsibilities and job description for the Peer Support Specialist position at Community Alliance?
At Community Alliance, we believe in the potential of recovery for all individuals with a mental illness and we dedicate our resources to support the journey of each individual we serve.
Community Alliance, offering an integrated health care approach and built on an array of mental health and primary care services, is seeking a Peer Support Specialist. Ideal candidates will have passion for working with vulnerable populations and comfortable in collaborating with other professionals to empower clients to achieve self-defined goals. Leverage your lived-experience in recovery from mental illness and/or substance use disorder to assist clients in the rehabilitative and recovery process.
This position requires State Certification as a Peer Specialist!
Part Time 3pm-11:30pm available
Fulltime 11pm-7:30am available
- Contribute to the development of integrated treatment plans, with a focus on helping clients to articulate self-identified goals for recovery
- Teach and support clients’ use of coping skills needed to facilitate individual recovery
- Assist clients in self-managing personal crisis
- Ensure clients are able to access services that align with goals identified in their treatment plans
- Proactively collaborate and communicate with members of a multi-disciplinary care team (e.g. information sharing; planned and spontaneous case consultations; collaborative care visits)
- High-school diploma/GED required. Post-secondary education preferred
- Self-identified as a current or former recipient of professional behavioral health services which has led toward recovery from a major mental illness and/or co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorder
- Successful completion of an agency recognized peer specialist training program
- State certification as peer specialist is REQUIRED
- Knowledge of recovery principles, coping skills, advocacy techniques and community resources
- Ability to connect, communicate, and effectively work with people from diverse cultural, ethnic, socio-economic, educational, and professional backgrounds
- Access to reliable transportation, possession of valid Nebraska driver’s license, current automobile insurance, and good driving record
