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Senior Peer Specialist

Full-Time | On Location / In Office

$60,000 - $60,000/yr.

Senior Peer Specialist (35 hours/week)

Responsibilities:

Work in a mental health clinic and provide peer support as defined
Assist client with person-centered goal planning
Collaborate with client and care management team to identify the services clients should receive based on stage of change, immediate needs, and recommended treatment objectives
Assess and provide services to clients to address housing, income support, education and vocational training, social supports, employment, and primary care needs
Assist clients with linkages to and systems navigation within the behavioral health, human services, and criminal justice systems as appropriate
Act as an advocate and liaison for clients in accessing resources to support service plan goals

Use motivational interviewing, recovery, and trauma-informed approaches when delivering peer services
Involve family and significant others in the client’s treatment with the team
Provide individual peer support, wellness counseling, harm reduction counseling based on motivational interviewing
Provide 10% of treatment contacts in the community, including accompanying clients to appointments and events as well as clients actively hospitalized
Complete Wellness Recovery Action Plans (WRAP), safety, crisis intervention, and relapse prevention plans

Conduct mobile outreach to clients who unexpectedly disengage from clinic services
Provide telemental health services to incarcerated persons pending release that will be connected to clinic services for engagement of services
Provide culturally competent services in accordance with CASES policies and practice