ACT Peer Support Specialist (Full-Time)

Crawford County Mental Health Center; Pittsburg (KS); On-site; USD 36,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Crawford County Mental Health Center in Pittsburg, KS is seeking an ACT Peer Support Specialist. This role provides client-centered supports to promote coping skills, recovery, and community living.

Services are delivered face-to-face, individually or in groups, often in clients' community settings, under clinical supervision. You will help clients build information networks, encourage independent treatment decisions, discuss medications with clinicians, identify triggers, and model recovery by

Responsibilities

• Follow dress code policies of any alternative work locations, including but not limited to schools, jails, courts, detention centers, other community partners, etc.
• Helping the client develop a network for information and support from others who have been through similar experiences.
• Supporting clients in making independent/educated choices and taking a proactive role in treatment, including discussing questions or concerns about medications, diagnoses, or treatment approaches with their treating clinicians.
• Assisting the client with identifying and effectively responding to and/or avoiding identified triggers that result in functional impairments.
• Disclose, as needed, personal experience with a mental illness or substance use disorder and utilize these experiences as a model for recovery to the client.
• Assist in assessment of needs for assigned

Job description

Position Summary

ACT Peer Support Services are client-centered services with a rehabilitation and recovery focus designed to promote skills for coping with and managing psychiatric symptoms while facilitating the utilization of natural resources and the enhancement of community living skills. This position provides goal-directed supports and solution-focused interventions to achieve identified goals or objectives as set forth in the client’s individualized treatment plan. The structured, scheduled activities provided by this service emphasize the opportunity for support in the restoration and expansion of skills and strategies needed to move forward in recovery. Peer support is a face-to-face intervention with the client present. Services can be provided individually or in a group setting. At times this position will provide services to clients who are experiencing a psychiatric crisis to interrupt and/or improve a crisis experience. As medically necessary, this position will aid in the form of direct support, supervision, and/or queueing to support independence. Most contacts will occur in community locations where the client lives, works, attends school and/or socializes. This position conducts activities under the direction of clinical staff.

Primary Job Duties And Responsibilities

• Required to follow dress code policies of any alternative work locations, including but not limited to schools, jails, courts, detention centers, other community partners, etc.
• Helping the client develop a network for information and support from others who have been through similar experiences.
• Supporting clients in making independent/educated choices and taking a proactive role in treatment, including discussing questions or concerns about medications, diagnoses, or treatment approaches with their treating clinicians.
• Assisting the client with identifying and effectively responding to and/or avoiding identified triggers that result in functional impairments.
• Disclose, as needed, personal experience with a mental illness or substance use disorder and utilize these experiences as a model for recovery to the client.
• Assist in assessment of needs for assigned