Mobile Crisis - Peer Support Specialist - Evening Shift + alternating weekends

BJC HealthCare; Missouri; On-site; USD 38,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus up to $2,000

Provided company vehicle

Job summary

BJC Behavioral Health is seeking a Peer Support Specialist to operate within a Mobile Crisis Response team. You will work in community settings, visiting clients in crisis and providing supportive assessments, documentation, and clinical guidance while coordinating with a multidisciplinary team.

Your role emphasizes recovery-focused strategies and collaboration with staff and leaders. Ideal candidates bring experience with crisis clients, resiliency, and a strengths-based approach to help

Qualifications

• Experience with clients in crisis preferred.
• Ability to manage stress and adapt to change.
• Solutions-oriented and focused on client strengths/resources.
• Willing to collaborate with staff and leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead mutual support groups.
• Promote dialogues on recovery and resilience.
• Teach and model symptom management skills.
• Teach and model problem-solving skills.
• Identify goals and barriers to improving quality of life (CTT teams).
• Support Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment (IDDT) recovery efforts.
• Engage Transitional Age Youth and Homeless-focused activities.

Skills

Crisis experience

Stress management

Adaptable

Solutions oriented

Collaborative approach

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Associate's Degree

Job description

Additional Information About the Role

• Up to a $2,000 Sign on Bonus
• Shift information: shift 4 PM – 12 PM + alternating weekends
• Types of clients: Mobile Crisis Response (MCR) works with clients in active crisis who have outreached 988 and are in need of in-person assessment and support. We work with clients in the communities of all ages in the BJC Behavioral Health catchment area of (Ironton County, Washington County and St. Francois County)
• Will use a company vehicle (not your own car)
• Team dynamic: This team is made up of mental health professionals – some masters level, some bachelor level, and some Peer Support Specialists. It is a 24/7/365 program
• Location: Touchdown location – BJC Commons - but your work with clients will take place anywhere in the community. You will go to where the individual-in-crisis is (home, park, store, bus station, street intersection, etc.)
• Ideal Skill Set: Experience with clients in crisis preferred, ability to manage stress, comfort with change, solutions-oriented and focused on client strengths/resources, willing/able to participate in a collaborative environment between staff and leaders
• Job responsibilities: Team members are considered as “primary members” of a MCR team when they are sent into the community. This means they take point on assessments while out on a dispatch, documentation of said assessments, and making clinical decisions.

Overview

BJC Behavioral Health is a community health center that provides and coordinates behavioral health services for more than 8,000 seriously mentally ill adults and seriously emotionally disturbed children in St. Louis City, St. Louis County, St. François, Iron and Washington counties. As an Administrative Agent of the Missouri Department of Mental Health (DMH), BJC Behavioral Health serves as a major point of entry for people eligible for mental health services funded by DMH and is responsible for serving as gatekeeper to the public mental health system.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

Share lived experiences of recovery, sharing and supporting the use of recovery tools, and modeling successful recovery behaviors to help individuals with mental illness recognize their capacity for resilience. This is done by helping individuals who have mental illnesses and substance use disorders develop a network for information and support and to develop a sense of belonging with their communities at large. Peer support activities assist in achieving goals and objectives set forth by the individual in their individualized treatment or recovery plan, and emphasize the opportunity for individuals to support each other as they move forward in their recovery.

Responsibilities

• Start and sustain mutual support groups
• Promote dialogues on recovery and resilience.
• Teach and model symptom management skills.
• Teach and model problem-solving skills.
• Rehab (CTT) Teams – Help individuals identify what will help improve their quality of life and then identify goals and barriers to achieving a better quality of life. As member of the treatment team, peer support specialists have identified interventions on the treatment plan as other team members do.
• Integrated Dual Diagnosis Treatment (IDDT) – Focus is on recovery from both mental illness and substance use. Peer Support Specialist should have had experience with addictions, either personal or family and be familiar with ways to maintain sobriety
• Transitional Age Youth – Activities are focused on skill young adults (16 to 25) need to be independent in the community, with special attention to those skills that will impact young adults most if not attended to. Must have had similar experiences and be close enough in age to be able to engage young adults.
• Homeless – Activities are focused on acquiring and maintaining safe affordable housing. Must have experienced homelessness at some point in life and have been successfully housed for the last two years.

Minimum Requirements

Education

• High School Diploma or GED

Experience

• No Experience

Licenses & Certifications

• Certified Missouri Peer Spec
• Valid Driver's License

Preferred Requirements

Education

• Associate's Degree

Experience

• <2 years

Supervisor Experience

• No Experience

Benefits and Legal Statement

BJC Total Rewards

At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance* paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance

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The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer