Peer Specialist (Gadsden County)

Apalachee Center; Quincy (FL); On-site; USD 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

Long term disability

Job summary

A behavioral health service provider is seeking a Peer Specialist in Quincy, Florida. This role focuses on mentoring individuals with severe persistent mental illness and substance use disorders through personal experience. Responsibilities include assisting peers in identifying goals and recovery strategies, role modeling competency in recovery, and maintaining accurate documentation. Candidates should possess strong communication skills and experience in peer support. Competitive benefits are offered for full-time positions.

Qualifications

• Experience with severe persistent mental illness or substance use disorder.
• Demonstrated ability to use personal recovery as a tool for mentorship.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist peers in personal goal identification and recovery planning.
• Role model recovery strategies and self-advocacy.
• Documentation of services within specified timelines.

Skills

Peer support

Communication

Mentorship

Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)

Job description

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.