What are the responsibilities and job description for the San Francisco CARE Court - Peer Support Specialist position at Mental Health Association of San Francisco?
Job Description
Job Description
JOB TITLE : San Francisco CARE Court - Peer Support Specialist
DEPARTMENT : Peer Services
JOB STATUS : Non-exempt; part-time 20 hours weekly
HOURS & LOCATION : 9am to 5 pm; mostly field-based work
SALARY : $30.29 hourly
BENEFITS :
- Medical : Kaiser HMO or Blue Shield PPO (Prorated) Dental & Vision (Prorated)
- Life & long-term disability coverage; EAP
- Paid Time Off, sick days, and major holidays
- Health and Dependent Care FSA, Commuter Check, and 403(b) options available
- Ongoing access to MHASF continuing education and skill-building workshops- all training time paid
- Excellent opportunity for advancement-over 70% of our staff have been promoted internally at least once!
REPORTS TO : CARE Court Manager
ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO (MHASF)
MHASF is a mental health peer-run nonprofit located in downtown San Francisco serving people and agencies across the Bay Area since 1947. As mental health consumers ourselves, we center the lived expertise of people with mental health challenges in our advocacy, education, and support programs, and believe that dignity and recovery in mental health are something everyone can experience. Our staff is dedicated to creating spaces for learning and healing around stigmatized and under-resourced areas in mental health-hoarding and cluttering behavior, peer employment support, wellness & nutrition, community-based crisis response, service navigation, and more. MHASF strongly-encourages people with lived experience of mental health challenges to apply and grow with us!
OVERVIEW OF PROGRAM & POSITION :
Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court is a relatively new, state-wide framework to deliver mental health and substance use disorder services to individuals with schizophrenia, schizoaffective, or another qualifying psychotic spectrum diagnosis who are considered to be "unstable in the community." Involvement in CARE Court can be initiated by an individual's family, county and community-based social services, behavioral health providers, first responders, or the individual themself. CARE Court is a voluntary program that can serve as anything from a first-time intervention to a transition into a lower level of care for example, as a step-down from LPS conservatorship. Once a petition is received, San Francisco Department of Public Health's CARE Team and the respondent's assigned counsel begin to outreach to respondents and attempt to engage them in the CARE Court process. Once they determine whether the participant qualifies and would like to participate in CARE Court, a CARE Agreement is developed with Citywide as the service provider. The CARE Agreement lasts for 1 year, with the option to renew it for another year if both parties determine that to be the best course of action. Respondents then graduate from CARE Court having completed their CARE Agreement.
As a peer-run organization, MHASF is partnering with Collaborative Justice Programs of the Superior Court of California to ensure the peer recovery model and peer-based support is available to participants of CARE Court in San Francisco. The Peer Support Specialist (PSS) for this project will provide 1 : 1 peer counseling and support to participants of CARE Court. Through the development of trust and rapport, the PSS provides emotional support and advocacy; linkage to social, legal, and mental and physical health services, and engages in WRAP® planning with participants.
RESPONSIBILITIES :
Top Three Responsibilities
Peer Support & Case Management
Record-Keeping, Training, & Participation
The Peer Support Specialist also supports broader MHASF initiatives and is responsible for other duties as assigned. The above job responsibilities are meant to be representative, not a comprehensive job description, and are subject to change depending on the needs of the program and MHASF.
QUALIFICATIONS
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
The position requires long periods of work at a desk, which may involve sitting or standing and the use of a computer, keyboard, mouse, and desk phone. The office building and between floors of the building, and to travel short distances (under 1 mile) is required. Other physical tasks may involve reaching, pulling, pushing, bending, climbing a stepladder, use of a dolly to move items weighing up to 50 lbs., and lifting and carrying up to 20 lbs.
FIELD-BASED WORK
This position is field-based in the San Francisco community. The position requires walking in San Francisco, standing in lines with program participants, and the use of public transportation. The position also requires periods of work at a desk, which may involve sitting or standing and the use of a computer, keyboard, mouse, and cell phone.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT STATEMENT
Mental health challenges can affect anyone at any time, regardless of identity or background, and consequently the communities we serve are highly diverse. As a peer-run organization, we also recognize the importance of lived experience as an irreplaceable form of expertise and as a basis for building trust and providing effective services. We welcome and strongly encourage people from historically marginalized and economically disadvantaged groups, including people who identify as disabled or neuro-divergent, to apply to work with us.
MHASF is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants for employment and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other factor not related to ability to successfully fulfill the requirements of the position.
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