Youth Peer Support Specialist – Integrated - Brunswick

Sweetser; Brunswick (ME); On-site; USD 27,552 - 28,929; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Wide range of benefits

Job summary

Sweetser is hiring a Youth Peer Support Specialist in Brunswick, Maine, to work with youth under 21, applying recovery principles.

This full-time role requires modeling healthy relationships, facilitating support groups, and understanding wellness dimensions. The ideal candidate has a high school diploma and lived experience with recovery.

Competitive hourly rates range from $20 to $21, depending on certification. Join a passionate team and make a difference!

Qualifications

• Experience with recovery from mental health challenges.
• Ability to implement Peer Connect Training.
• Knowledge of the Eight Dimensions of Wellness.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate peer support groups to build community.
• Schedule varies according to program needs.
• Model healthy relationships and confidentiality.

Skills

Peer support experience

Emotional presence

Diverse population engagement

Intermediate computer skills

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

Tools

Electronic Health Record software

Job description

Becoming part of the Sweetser family means you can make a difference in the lives of Maine children, adults, and families every day. As a nationally recognized and accredited leader, we offer competitive salaries, a wide range of benefits and the opportunity to join a passionate team of more than 700 employees.

Position Title: Youth Peer Support Specialist – Integrated

Job Code: 13299

Location: Brunswick 04011

Department: Other

FT/PT Status: Full Time

Summary

This position is integrated with Sweetser's Brunswick BHH team!

Hourly Rate: $20.00 - $21.00, based on certification!

Applies the tools developed in his or her own recovery as well as the philosophy and values of Youth Peer Support to build a connection, consider world view, maintain mutuality, and move towards a new way of being within the new relationship being built with the individual. The Youth Peer Support Specialist - Integrated will collaborate, coach, and challenge youth that are under 21 years of age in viewing life’s challenges as an opportunity for growth and change within each individual’s recovery process.

The role requires someone between 18-26 years of age and have significant experience with recovery from mental health challenges, substance use disorder, and/or life interrupting trauma.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Fully understands and is able to actively implement the Peer Connect Training Model.
• Models relationship building, based on the Peer Connect Training Model with participants, volunteers and colleagues.
• Facilitates peer support groups on an as needed basis to build community and connection among youth participants.
• Understands and actively implements the Eight Dimensions of Wellness as described by SAMHSA.
• Models the attributes of respect, trust, sensitivity and confidentiality.
• Supports and models healthy relationships.
• Schedules will vary according to program needs.
  • Youth receiving services at Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC)
  • Child Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
  • Child Behavioral Health Home (BHH)
  • Mobile Crisis Team
• Follows best practices and guidelines established for each program.

GENERAL EXPECTATIONS

• Be committed to the mission, vision, and values of the organization.
• Works collaboratively as a member of a team with various groups of staff, depending on the issue addressed.
• Assures quality in work performed to facilitate the delivery of quality services.
• Reports accidents and injuries in a timely fashion, demonstrates safe housekeeping practices, notifies supervisor of potential health and safety concerns immediately, participates in health and safety training as required, understands and follows all Sweetser health and safety policies.
• Understands and complies with all Sweetser policies and procedures.
• Actively participates in ongoing supervision and team meetings.
• Provides timely and accurate paperwork, including timesheets and expense reports.
• Actively engages the assigned manager whenever you have questions or concerns.
• Provides the assigned manager with updated information regarding your availability.
• Ability to support and recognize the important role that volunteers play. Sweetser employees work with, support, collaborate with volunteers, and promote opportunities for volunteer engagement.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• High School diploma or equivalent.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED

• Peer Connect Training completed within 9 months of hire.
• Staff must maintain a valid state driver's license, reliable transportation and adequate insurance.
• State of Maine Certified Intentional Peer Support Specialist (CIPSS) Certification, or
  • Complete the CIPSS pre-training within the first thirty (30) calendar days of hire
  • Attend monthly co-reflections within sixty (60) calendar days of hire, and
  • Attend CIPSS 101 and apply for the next available Core Training within ninety (90) calendar days of hire
• Meet the annual State of Maine requirements to maintain CIPSS Certification.

EXPERIENCE

• Knowledge gained by lived experience with the process of Recovery from trauma, serious mental illness, and/or co-occurring Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and is willing to self-identify with peers on this basis in the community.
• Paid, or unpaid, peer support experience preferred.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Demonstrates knowledge of personal Recovery.
• Ability to be emotionally present and competent, recognize when you are not, seek support, and communicate this to the assigned manager.
• Ability to work with diverse populations and accept differences in perspective and values.
• Intermediate computer skills including the expectation of utilizing Electronic Health Record software.