Peer Specialist (Wakulla County)

Apalachee Center; Crawfordville (FL); On-site; USD 18,000 - 23,000; Part time

Job summary

Apalachee Center, Inc. seeks a Peer Specialist to support individuals with mental health or substance use recovery.

This non-clinical role focuses on mentoring, resiliency-building, and connecting peers to services, using lived experience to foster hope and recovery goals. Responsibilities include conducting WRAP-based sessions, collaborating with case managers, documenting activities within 48 hours, and maintaining productive engagement to meet agency standards.

Qualifications

• Must openly identify as a person with lived experience of using mental health or substance use services.
• Minimum of 1 year in recovery.
• Certified Recovery Peer Specialist or eligible to obtain certification within one year.
• Must possess a valid driver’s license with no more than six points.

Responsibilities

• Assist peers by using WRAP to help identify safe wellness tools and create a crisis/post-crisis plan with regular meetings.
• Assist peers in working with their case manager to set self-directed recovery goals and build skills.
• Role model recovery, resiliency, and self-advocacy for peers and staff.
• Complete documentation within 48 hours of service delivery and route to supervisor for approval.
• Meet service productivity standard of 62.5% (5 of 8 hours) with proper clinical record documentation.

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Certified Recovery Peer Specialist (Florida Certification Board)

Experience with mental illness and/or substance use disorder

Job description

Job Details

Job Location: Crawfordville, FL 32327

Position Type: Part Time

Salary Range: $15.00

Job Category: Other

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.

Qualifications

• Openly identifies as a person who has lived experience of using/have used mental health services and/or substance use disorder services or programs.
• Actively engages in self-care program that promotes recovery.
• Minimum of 1 (one) year in recovery required.

Education/Experience

• A high school diploma or its equivalent.
• Certified as a Peer Specialist or eligible to obtain Peer Specialist certification.
• Experience with mental illnesses and/or substance use disorder.

Licensure or Certification

• Recognized as a Certified Recovery Peer Specialist by the Florida Certification Board and in good standing or obtain certification within one year of employment.
• Must possess a current and valid driver’s license with no more than six (6) points and maintain Apalachee Designated Auto Driver’s status if transporting consumers is part of the job assignment.