What are the responsibilities and job description for the Peer Specialist - Mobile Crisis Intervention - Haitian Creole Speaking position at Riverside Community Care?
Behavioral Health Services
Norwood, MA
ID: 11038-709
Full-Time/Regular
We make a difference - in your community and in your career.
Seeking a Peer Specialist for our Mobile Crisis Intervention Team
with fluency in English and Haitian Creole!
Peer Specialists help to make Mobile Crisis Intervention Services welcoming, comfortable, supportive, and responsive to individuals who utilize them and their families.
Using their personal experience and knowledge of navigating the greater system of care, Peer Specialists provide consumers with support, information, and assistance in connecting with and obtaining community-based resources and services.
In This Vital Role, The Peer Specialist Will
- convey hope and provide psychoeducation, including information about recovery, rehabilitation, and crisis self-management
- assist in arranging the services to which the individual is being referred after the MCI intervention, and they shall work with the person and family to support them during the transition to those follow-up services
- provide similar services in the MCI service and Adult CCS as staffing and time permit
Schedule: Full time 40 hours per week; flexible shift options available
Pay Rate: $22.27/hourly
- additional $1 for CPS
- additional $2 for CARC
- PLUS $0.96 language differential for Haitian Creole!
We make a true difference in people’s lives through rewarding work. Most of our jobs come with great benefits – including healthcare, numerous professional development opportunities, and generous time off - all in a respectful and inclusive environment, perhaps why Riverside was named a Boston Globe Top Workplace and a best-in-state employer by Forbes.
Benefits Include
- Comprehensive, high-quality health, dental, and vision insurance options
- Flexible Spending Accounts – both medical and dependent care
- Eleven paid holidays
- Separate accruals for vacation (increases with tenure), personal, and sick time
- Tax-deferred 403(b) retirement savings plan with employer match
- Employee Assistance Plan / Travel Assistance Plan
- Employee bonus for referrals resulting in hiring
- Discounts to movie theaters, sporting, and entertainment events
- Employee YMCA discount: 10% off a YMCA monthly membership and 50% off the joiner’s fee
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Required Skills
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Basic computer fluency (including Microsoft Office)
- Must be a Certified Peer Specialist or obtain certification as a Peer Specialist within 6 months-1 year of hire
- Valid driver’s license, safe driving record, and regular access to a reliable vehicle
- Haitian Creole fluency
- High school diploma or equivalent; Bachelor’s Degree or Associates degree in a Human Services or related Field preferred
- Certification as a Peer Specialist preferred; must immediately begin and diligently work toward certification process if hired without certification
- Experience as consumer of services or family member of a consumer preferred.
- One year experience working with target population required, though experience as a consumer or as a family member, required
Salary : $22
