Certified Peer Support Specialist - Full-time

Candidate must be Certified as a Peer Support Specialist, not a Recovery Specialist or Coach.

POSITION REQUIRES HOME VISITS IN MACOMB COUNTY

The Certified Peer Supports Specialist responsibilities include: Under direct supervision, the Certified Peer Supports Specialist functions as part of a team to provide flexible services aimed at supporting, directly or indirectly, persons served.  Provides expertise that professional training cannot replicate due to his/her own personal experience with Mental Illness   They often act as a consultant to other team members, helping them understand the persons’ served perspectives and subjective experiences.  This position has a high degree of person integrity, generates positive energy, and makes a difference every day. This position promotes recovery-based, person-centered, and culturally competent practices.

Why a Certified Peer Support Specialist at Hope…

Make a difference in people's lives, including your own.

Here are just some of the ways Hope Network invests in you for all that you do:

• Wage  $15.00 - $18.00 (depending on education and experience)
• Medical, Dental, Vision remains  active
• Career pathing and growth opportunities
• Paid Training

How you will change lives…

• Embrace the concepts of recovery and expects all personnel to follow the principles of recovery; supports and encourage this concept to enable the population we work with to reach their full potential.
• Create in others an awareness of their powers and self-worth, Engage persons-served and monitor their wellbeing.
• Participate in the Family/Guardian/Friends Liaison Program activities, building a friendly and open communication network with the natural supports of persons-served.
• Participate in building community relations and social networks that provide support, friendship, love and hope and ongoing peer review of clinical documentation.
• Provide linking with transportation resources related to personal care, community living supports, employment and/or planned activities.
• Facilitate, for persons-served, access to community resources and social support networks.
• Document on the progress, or lack of progress, towards goals of persons-served at the close of each shift.
• Make sure 100% of the routine/customary daily, monthly, quarterly, and/or annual internal data reports (required from Rehabilitation assistants) are submitted on tim
• Know the contract requirements for your program/service.
• Knowledgeable of the Program Fidelity Model.

About you…

• You are passionate about serving others.
• Provide supreme customer service, always being courteous, responsive, professional, and helpful to the organization’s internal and external customers.
• You enjoy working independently and as part of a team.
• You act as a positive role model and coach for others.

We are Hopeful you have…

• A Certified Peer Support Specialist- Must complete and achieve ACT 101 training by DCH.
• Credentialing & Privileging includes General ACT, Group Therapy, Co-occurring Treatment, and Peer Services Specialist Conference.
• Be willing to become a Certified Peer Support (if the certification has not been completed).
• Two years’ experience preferred.
• Firsthand knowledge of characteristics and conditions experienced by persons served.
• Concepts of Motivational Interviewing.
• Integrated Duel Diagnosis Treatment.
• Family Psycho Education.
• Seeking Safety, Family Psycho Education.
• Stages of Change.
• Trauma Informed Care.
• Integrated Care.