PEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST - PSYCH

1.0 FTE Full time Day - 08 Hour R2546050 Hybrid 107084003 Psych Multi Site Allied Health STANFORD, 401 Quarry Rd, California

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview

The Peer Support Specialist works with the INSPIRE multidisciplinary team to provide nonclinical, peer-to-peer support to service users who are receiving care for early psychosis. By sharing lived experiences about their recovery journey, the Peer Support Specialist utilizes their expertise to provide individualized support and encouragement to service users. The Peer Support Specialist assists service users in developing an understanding of their experiences and creates a safe space for the exploration of beliefs, strengths, challenges, and recovery goals. The Peer Support Specialist helps service users brainstorm and problem-solve in areas such as social relationships, navigating the healthcare system, and other environments. They also explore strategies for maintaining wellness and self-advocacy. Peer Support Specialists can meet with service users in their homes, the community, or the office, as needed, to provide support with a recovery-focused and culturally sensitive approach. We are committed to ensuring that the INSPIRE Early Psychosis Program reflects a range of experiences and backgrounds. We strongly encourage qualified candidates with diverse racial, cultural, multilingual, religious, socioeconomic, and gender identities and experiences to apply.

Locations

Stanford Health Care

What You Will Do

• Meet individually with service users to learn about their daily life, routines, social
• situation, psychosis symptoms, and what a meaningful life means to them.
• Utilize personal experience to build rapport with service users and role model self-care
• and effective use of recovery skills.
• Provide reinforcement and encouragement to service users using problem solving skills
• to support them with taking action towards their goals and participating in the program.
• Assist service users with identifying potential triggers and creating plans to prevent or
• recognize signs of relapse.
• Assist service users with identifying social supports and people/numbers they can call
• when feeling triggered and/or in crisis.
• Educate service users on levels of care for mental health treatment and community
• supports.
• Educate service users about various peer support groups and assist with the process of
• accessing virtual and in person meetings.
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• Provide service users with individual and group-based services as part of the INSPIRE opportunities offered.
• Attend treatment team meetings to provide updates on service users and coordinate care.
• Assists supervisor with conducting outreach to educate community partners and peers about early psychosis.
• Actively engages with INSPIRE Stakeholder Advisory Group members by supporting the group initiatives and sharing feedback with the INSPIRE team.
  
  

Education Qualifications

• High School Diploma.
• Peer Support Specialist Certification preferred
  
  

Experience Qualifications

• Minimum three (3) years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience is preferred.
• Driver's license preferred
  
  

Required Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Communicates and interacts with service users in a culturally sensitive and relatable way.
• Develops positive working relationships with INSPIRE staff and community agencies.
• Interest/proficiency in working with individuals with mental health challenges or those experiencing psychosis, individuals experiencing homelessness, and other marginalized populations.
• Becomes versed in local and regional mental health and psychosis treatment options and local harm reduction services.
• Ability to use computer information systems, computer literacy, and knowledge of word processing.
• Collects data related to number of service users seen and engaged in care.
• Nonjudgmental, energetic, positive approach to assisting service users with psychosis and recovery goals
• Understanding of psychosis as a spectrum of experience with individualized components.
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• Able to interact with service users and their supports in a culturally sensitive manner. Any additional ability to communicate in languages spoken in local community such as Spanish, Tagalog, Hmong, etc. are helpful
• Preference for applicants with connections to, and reflecting the diversity of, the local community.
• Respect for service users' confidentiality and privacy.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
  
  

These Principles Apply To ALL Employees

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.

You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination
  
  

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $34.11 - $43.48 per hour

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.