ACT Peer Support Worker

Your Journey is Your Greatest Strength

Are you someone who has navigated the challenges of mental health or substance use recovery? Have you turned your personal trials into a source of wisdom and resilience? At our organization, we don’t just "accept" lived experience—we value it as a professional asset.

We are looking for a Peer Support Specialist to join our Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team. In this role, you aren’t just a provider; you are a beacon of hope. You will work alongside a multidisciplinary team to support adults with serious mental illness and co-occurring challenges, helping them build independent, meaningful lives in their own communities.

Why This Role Matters

The ACT team provides non-traditional, community-based care designed to meet people where they are—literally. By providing support in participants' homes and neighborhoods, we reduce emergency room visits and hospital stays, replacing crisis with stability.

As a Peer Support Specialist, you will:

• Bridge the Gap: Use your own recovery story to build authentic connections that clinicians cannot.

• Empower Others: Help participants find their "inner wisdom," combat negative self-talk, and advocate for the services they truly want.

• Model Wellness: Demonstrate firsthand that recovery isn't just possible—it’s happening.

What You Will Do

• Mentorship: Help participants develop support networks and articulate what "wellness" looks like for them.

• Skill Building: Teach daily living skills and facilitate group activities that strengthen recovery.

• Advocacy: Assist participants in creating Person-Centered Plans and Wellness Recovery Action Plans (WRAP).

• Community Integration: Work mobile-first, spending the majority of your time in the community or participants' homes.

• Team Collaboration: Participate in team meetings and clinical supervision to ensure the best care for our participants.

Who You Are

• Resilient: You have personally navigated the mental health system or recovery process and have reached a place of stability where you are ready to help others do the same.

• Empathetic & Culturally Aware: You can interact sensitively with people from all walks of life and cultures.

• Professional & Organized: You can manage your own schedule, complete documentation (progress notes/E-time) within required timeframes, and maintain strict confidentiality.

• Flexible: You are comfortable working in a non-traditional setting and are available for a 7-day on-call rotation once every 6-8 weeks.

The Essentials

• Productivity: You’ll maintain a steady pace of 24–27 goal-directed encounters per week.

• Communication: You practice "healing communication" and know how to share your story strategically to benefit the participant’s growth.

• Boundaries: You understand the importance of maintaining healthy, professional boundaries while working with adults in the community.

Ready to turn your lived experience into a career that changes lives? We invite you to bring your authentic self, your history of overcoming trauma, and your passion for recovery to our ACT team.

• Minimum Education:  High school diploma or equivalent; certification, or ability to become certified upon being hired, in the State of Kansas to provide the Peer Support Worker service, which includes criminal, abuse/neglect registry and professional background checks, and completion of a state approved standardized basic training program
• Minimum Experience:  Provider must self-identify as a present or former primary client of mental health services
• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Must have excellent communication skills listening, verbal, and written
• Must be able and willing to be flexible, a self starter, punctual, and have the ability to maintain a schedule
• Must have a valid Kansas driver’s license, be insurable through Prairie View insurance company, and be willing to provide transportation to patients as needed
• Must have ability to maintain professional boundaries with peers
• Must be proficient at basic keyboarding/word processing skills
• Must be able to pass Kansas Bureau of Investigation Screen and the Central Registry Screen for both adults and children