Self Concepts Clinical Counseling Services, Inc
Job Description
Position: Peer Support Specialist
Purpose of Position:
The Support Specialist provides peer support services to people with mental illness or a co-occurring diagnosis of substance use.
Key Functions
· Knowledge of peer support principles, values, and ethics.
· Ability to share lived experience to support, encourage and enhance a beneficiary’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 mentor recovery values, attitudes, beliefs, and personal actions to encourage wellness and resilience for beneficiaries served and to promote a recovery environment 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 beneficiary’s opportunity for personal growth by identifying teachable moments for building relationship skills to empower the beneficiary and enhance personal responsibility.
· Ability to model and share decision-making tools to enhance a beneficiary’s healthy 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 beneficiary in navigating systems (medical, social services, or legal).
· Ability to promote self-advocacy by facilitating each beneficiary’s learning about his or her human and legal rights and supporting the beneficiary while exercising those rights to support the empowerment of the beneficiary.
Qualifications
Must be a Paraprofessional as defined by 10 NCAC 27G .0204 and certified as a Peer Support Specialist by UNC-Chapel Hill.
Training
Must successfully complete all required Agency and UNC-CH trainings and in-services.
Additional Requirements
· Valid Driver’s License, reliable automobile with proof of current liability insurance, acceptable driving record, current vehicle registration and inspection, current TB screening, and an acceptable criminal record.
· Basic mathematical skills
· Ability to read, write and understand the language of the person served and read and write in English.
· Ability to work as a team member
· Reliable transportation
Accuracy Required In Work and Consequence of Error:
The staff is responsible for delivering effective services to each person on his/her caseload. The quality of the service provided has the potential to affect the health and safety of consumers and staff. This position has a fiduciary responsibility to the Agency including but not limited to billing, in which errors could result in significant funding infractions for the agency.
Supervision and Training Provided To Employee
The local office will provide initial training, while on-going training and supervision is provided on-going by the supervisor. A supervision plan will be developed for the employee specifying training and other development activities required in the position. The employee must meet the requirements of the supervision plan.
Physical Effort
A variety of physical activities are necessary for this position depending upon the needs of the consumers of the agency. Travel within the community is required. From time-to-time out-of-town travel may be required. There will also be interaction with consumers served at each local office
Work Environment and Conditions
The staff works in a climate-controlled office and in the persons home. This may involve the staff being in unsafe neighborhoods.
Direct Supervisor for this position:
Immediate supervisor is the Peer Support Supervisor
Salary Range: TBD (Negotiable)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Gastonia, NC 28054
