Certified Peer Support Specialist – Recovery & Wellness Mentor

Start Wellness; Roper (NC); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Start Wellness in North Carolina is seeking a Certified Peer Support Specialist to assist individuals in recovery. The CPSS provides structured, scheduled services that promote self-determination, engagement in self-care, and community living skills, working under the supervision of a Qualified Professional.

You will collaborate with Integrated Care Teams, attend care planning meetings, help members access housing, employment resources, and healthcare, and promote self-advocacy while maintaining

Qualifications

• Must be a North Carolina certified Peer Support Specialist.
• Experience sharing lived recovery experience to support treatment and recovery.
• Must have current CPSS certification and be supervised by a Qualified Professional.
• Must not be a family member of the recipient.

Responsibilities

• 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 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 decisions-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.

Skills

Peer support principles

Recovery coaching

Collaboration with care teams

Client advocacy

Education

North Carolina Certified Peer Support Specialist

High school diploma or GED

Job description

Start Wellness in North Carolina is seeking a Certified Peer Support Specialist to assist individuals in recovery. The CPSS provides structured, scheduled services that promote self-determination, engagement in self-care, and community living skills, working under the supervision of a Qualified Professional.

You will collaborate with Integrated Care Teams, attend care planning meetings, help members access housing, employment resources, and healthcare, and promote self-advocacy while maintaining