CAT Peer Specialist Wakulla, Liberty and Franklin

Apalachee Center; Bristol (FL); On-site; USD 18,000 - 23,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

Long-term disability

Life insurance

Job summary

Apalachee Center in Bristol, FL is seeking a Peer Specialist to mentor and support individuals with severe mental illness or substance use disorders. This non-clinical role emphasizes recovery, empowerment, and goal setting, building trusting connections and linking peers to treatment services.

The position requires lived experience, a high school diploma, peer certification or eligibility, and a valid driver’s license with few points.

Qualifications

• Openly identifies as someone with lived experience of using mental health and/or substance use services.
• Active engagement in self-care to support recovery.
• Minimum of 1 year in recovery required.

Responsibilities

• Assist peers by using WRAP to identify safe wellness tools and crisis plans.
• Support peers in working with their case manager to set self-directed recovery goals.
• Model recovery competencies and teach self-advocacy to peers and staff.
• Complete documentation within 48 hours of service delivery for supervisor review.
• Meet productivity standards and maintain Clinical Record Handbook compliance.

Skills

Lived experience

Recovery mindset

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Certified Peer Specialist

Job description

Job Details

Job Location: Bristol, FL 32321

Position Type: Full Time

Salary Range: $15.00

Job Category: Other

Apalachee Center, Inc. is best known for helping individuals and families of North Florida succeed in recovering from emotional, psychiatric, and substance abuse crises. Apalachee Center, Inc. provides comprehensive behavioral health services across 8 counties (Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor, and Wakulla Counties).

Apalachee Center, Inc. offers competitive benefits for our full-time positions to include

• health, dental, vision, basic life insurance, long term disability, paid time off, and more.

Overview

A peer specialist uses his or her lived experience to serve as a mentor to provide support for persons with severe persistent mental illness and or substance use disorder. This role will promote hope and set person-centered recovery-oriented goals. The role is non-clinical and does not include treatment, assessment and/or clinical evaluations of peers. It involves developing a relationship of trust that builds peers’ resilience, hope, recovery skills, and connects them to treatment services.

ESSENTIAL/CORE JOB-SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist peers by using tools such as Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), in order to help peers, discover safe wellness tools and create a crisis/post-crisis plan.” Accomplish through regular meetings to help peers identify their own strengths and support them in using those strengths to communicate goals to staff and clinicians.
• Assist peers in working with their case manager and other clinician/prescriber in determining the steps to take to achieve the personal goals and self-directed recovery through individual and/or group setting. PS will support peers in finding and developing the self-directed recovery goals by providing skill building, based on personal strength, supports and resources to aid them in order to achieve those goals.
• Role model’s competency in recovery, resiliency, wellness strategies and other techniques to the peers as well as coworkers and other staff. Share own personal recovery journey story to role model the value of recovery and teach peers appropriate self-advocacy to help peers sustain recovery success.
• Completes documentation and other paperwork accurately within 48 hours of service delivery and routed to supervisor approval. Will be directed on appropriate documentation and reviewed by supervisor.
• Meets service productivity standard of at least 62.5% (or 5 out of 8 work hours) for the provision of peer services which are supported by appropriate clinical record documentation which meet Clinical Record Handbook specifications and Agency business/clinical ethics standards.

Qualifications

• Openly identifies as a person who has lived experience of using/have used mental health services and/or substance use disorder services or programs.
• Actively engages in self-care program that promotes recovery.
• Minimum of 1 (one) year in recovery required.

Education/Experience

• A high school diploma or its equivalent.
• Certified as a Peer Specialist or eligible to obtain Peer Specialist certification.
• Experience with mental illnesses and/or substance use disorder.

Licensure or Certification

• Recognized as a Certified Recovery Peer Specialist by the Florida Certification Board and in good standing or obtain certification within one year of employment.
• Must possess a current and valid driver’s license with no more than six (6) points and maintain Apalachee Designated Auto Driver’s status if transporting consumers is part of the job assignment.