Peer Specialist

CommonSpirit Health; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 23,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

CommonSpirit Health's CHI Health Immanuel in Omaha seeks a Peer Specialist who will provide support and guidance to individuals drawing on personal lived experience with mental health or substance use challenges. You will practice active listening, share your recovery journey, and offer practical strategies to manage daily challenges and reach personal goals.

The role requires excellent communication, empathy, and a commitment to recovery.

Qualifications

• Must have experience with own personal mental health challenges.
• High School Graduate or GED, upon hire.

Responsibilities

• Provide support, encouragement, and guidance using your own lived experience.
• Engage individuals through active listening and sharing your recovery journey.
• Offer practical strategies to manage challenges and achieve personal goals.
• Maintain confidentiality, rights, and dignity of individuals served.
• Advocate for recovery-based services and help develop empowerment skills.
• Promote integration of individuals into their chosen communities and least restrictive living environments.

Skills

Strong communication

Interpersonal skills

Empathy and compassion

Recovery-focused mindset

Education

High School/GED

Experience with own mental health challenges

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Peer Specialist, you will provide invaluable support, encouragement, and guidance to individuals drawing upon your own lived experience with mental health or substance use challenges.

Every day you will engage with individuals through active listening, sharing your recovery journey, and offering practical strategies for managing challenges and achieving personal goals.

To be successful in this role, you must possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, a deep sense of empathy and compassion, and a demonstrated commitment to your own recovery.

• Experience in coping with life events successfully despite having a mental health challenge.
• Help individuals in setting and achieving their own goals.
• Maintain high standards of personal conduct. Teach and role model the value of every individual's recovery experience. Conduct self in a manner that fosters one's own recovery. Share with consumers and colleagues personal recovery stories from mental health challenges. Be able to identify and describe the supports that promote recovery.
• Respect the confidentiality, rights, and dignity of the individuals served at all times.
• Serve as an advocate for patients through support of recovery based services, assisting individuals in making their own decisions in all matters when dealing with other professionals, and develop empowerment skills through self-advocacy and stigma-busting.
• Advocate for the full integration of individuals in the community of their choice and promote the inherent value of these individuals to those communities guided by the principle that individuals have the right to live in the least restrictive environment.
• Job Requirements*Required
• High School Graduate or GED., upon hire and
• Must have experience with own personal mental health challenges.

Preferred

• Experience as a Peer Support Specialist or working in a Psychiatric or Human Services setting

Where You'll Work

CHI Health Immanuel, located in North Omaha just off of I-680 on 72nd Street, offers a full-service hospital, cancer center, rehabilitation center, specialty spine hospital and more. For well over a century, our commitment to serve our community inspires our staff to provide the highest quality of care to all who we have the privilege to serve.

Pay Range

$16.83 - $23.77 /hour