Peer Specialist - SOS Team (52213)

Health Solutions; Colorado; Remote; Full time

Job summary

A leading wellness center is seeking a Peer Support Specialist to join their Outreach and Engagement team. This role focuses on supporting individuals in the community, helping them navigate mental health and substance use needs, and ensuring they receive the necessary services. The ideal candidate will have a high school diploma and personal experience in behavioral health. Competitive pay and a generous benefits package are offered.

Benefits

Paid holidays

Generous PTO

Subsidized YMCA membership

Tuition reimbursement

Retirement 403(b)

Flexible schedule

Qualifications

• Personal knowledge or experience in the behavioral health field/housing.
• Colorado driver’s license, a good driving record, and access to transportation.

Responsibilities

• Supports the new client process through necessary paperwork and screenings.
• Conducts client home visits and provides or connects to supportive housing services.
• Teaches and enhances client coping, symptom management, and problem-solving skills.

Skills

Computer proficiency

Spanish language skills

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Job Details

Job Location: Remote - varies, CO

Position Type: Full Time

Education Level: High School

Salary Range: $17.22 Hourly

Travel Percentage: Negligible

Job Shift: Day

Description

Health Solutions is a premier wellness center focused on whole-person care. With over 400 employees in Southern Colorado, you would be joining a mighty team of support and administrative staff, case managers, clinicians, physicians, nurses, and others in our efforts to improve the health and wellbeing of our community.

We’re hiring for a Peer Support Specialist to join our Outreach and Engagement team in the SOS program.

Hours: Monday through Friday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

What You’d Be Doing

As an outreach Peer Support Specialist with Outreach and Engagement in the SOS program, you would play a central role in helping individuals in the community that would otherwise be engaging with law enforcement.

Specifically, the Peer Support Specialist:

• Supports the new client process through completion of necessary paperwork and screenings for enrollment into services;
• Makes appropriate referrals to address mental health and substance use needs;
• Conducts client home visits;
• Provides or connects to supportive housing services.
• Collaborates with other treatment providers to ensure a team based approach to treatment, when applicable
• Identifies coping mechanisms and natural supports that may be available;
• Teaches and enhances client coping, symptom management, problem-solving, independent living, and socialization skills;
• Maintains competency and proficiency with our electronic health record system;

• Provides support to remain in home and community to avoid more restrictive living arrangement; and
• Performs other job-related duties assigned by the director or his/her designee.
• Physical requirements include the following:
• Must be ableto remain in a stationary position at least 50% of the time.
• Frequently operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
• Occasionally lifts and carries items up to 15 pounds.
• Occasional exposure to communicable diseases and bodily fluids.
• Occasionally drives, at times in adverse weather conditions.

What You’ll Like About Us

• Competitive pay. 17.22/hour
• Generous benefits package. For most positions, includes paid holidays, generous PTO, Subsidized YMCA membership, tuition reimbursement, retirement 403(b), and FSA
  • Insurance: Medical, Dental, and Vision, with low deductibles. Also, Wellness benefits program available.
  • EAP, Teladoc, LifeLock, Direct Path, Life and AD&D
  • Additional Insurance: FSA, Voluntary Life, Allstate Voluntary benefits
  • Childcare for school aged children
  • Flexible schedule
• Employee recognition and celebrations
• Warm and friendly work environment in which staff respect and learn from one another
• Opportunities to serve our neighbors in Pueblo, Huerfano, and Las Animas counties

Qualifications

What We’re Looking For—The Must-Haves

• High School Diploma or GED
• Personal knowledge or experience in the behavioral health field/housing
• Computer proficiency
• Colorado driver’s license, a good driving record, and access to transportation during work hours

What We’d Like to See in You—The Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in the area of supportive housing services
• Experience successfully working in multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience working with adults with severe and persistent mental illness
• Experience providing case management services to adults
• Community systems navigation background
• Spanish language skills
• CAC training
• Experience working with those experiencing co-occurring disorders

Health Solutions expects all staff to

• Adapt to change in the workplace and use change as an opportunity for innovation and creativity;
• Take ownership of problems, brainstorm problem resolutions, and use sound judgment in selecting solutions to problems, and demonstrate consistent follow through;
• Possess the job knowledge and skills to perform the fundamental job functions, and assume greater responsibility over time regarding the scope of work;
• Inspire and model collaborative teamwork; and
• Demonstrate accommodation, politeness, helpfulness, trust building, appropriate boundaries, and flexibility in customer service.

Closing Date: Open until filled EOE, M/F