Requirements
• Certified in Peer Support, WRAP, CPR and First Aid
• Ability to share lived experience to support, encourage and enhance a beneficiary’s treatment and recovery.
• Possess recovery-oriented skills and knowledge to provide peer support services.
• Ability to collaborate with the program QP to assess their own strengths and areas of growth and develop a supervision plan.
• Ability to collaborate with a beneficiary to explore and identify barriers to accessing community resources or treatment providers.
• Ability to model and mentor recovery values, attitudes, beliefs, and personal actions to encourage wellness and resilience for beneficiaries served and to promote a recovery environment in the community, residence, and workplace.
• Ability to explore with a beneficiary served, the importance and creation of a wellness identity through open sharing and challenging viewpoints.
• Ability to promote a beneficiary’s opportunity for personal growth by identifying teachable moments for building relationship skills to empower the beneficiary and enhance personal responsibility.
• Ability to model and share decision-making tools to enhance a beneficiary’s healthy decision-making process.
• Ability to provide examples of healthy social interactions and facilitate familiarity with, and connection to, the local community.
• Ability to recognize and appropriately respond to conditions that constitute an emergency including both physical and behavioral health crises utilizing the emergency response procedure of the employer.
• Ability to provide support to the beneficiary in navigating systems (medical, social services, or legal).
• Ability to promote self-advocacy by facilitating each beneficiary’s learning about his or her human and legal rights and supporting the beneficiary while exercising those rights to support the empowerment of the beneficiary.
Additional Requirements:
Social Security Card
Driver’s License
High School Diploma or College Degree
Vehicle Insurance Declaration
About the Company
The Phoenix Project Inc. mission is to advocate and support the under-served population through behavioral and physical health services: Community Health Workers, Home Health Aides, Certified Nursing Assistants, and Certified Peer Support Services. The agency's staff will be responsible for helping patients and their families navigate and access community services including needed resources, and adopt healthy behaviors. Supporting providers and Case Managers through an integrated approach to care management and community outreach. Assisting individuals who have functional, physical, and/or mental impairments accomplish their daily activities. Individuals may require both personal care and home management assistance to be able to remain safely in their home settings. Empowering those with shared lived experiences to guide and support individuals on their unique recovery journey by modeling recovery values to encourage wellness and empowering individuals to meet their goals.
About the Role
The Peer Support Specialist primary responsibilities are to direct, coordinate, and manage the
activities of a comprehensive mental health program and to ensure the program operates in full
compliance with relevant laws, ensure accuracy of data; compliance with regulation; and identify
operational efficiencies.
The Peer Support Specialist will provide service activities to include the following interventions:
Education and training of clients and others who have a legitimate role in addressing
the needs identified in the Person-Centered Plan
Preventive and therapeutic interventions designed for direct individual activities.
Assist with skill enhancement or acquisition, and support ongoing treatment and functional gains.
Develop interpersonal and community relational skills, including adaptation to home,
school, work, and other natural environments.
Therapeutic mentoring and Supportive Counseling
Symptom monitoring and self-management of symptoms
Inform the client about benefits, community resources and services.
Assist the client in accessing benefits and services.
Arrange for the client to receive benefits and services.
Monitor service provision.
Case management to arrange, link or integrate multiple services as well as assessment and
reassessment of the client’s need for services Provide coordination of movement across
levels of care, directly to the person/family, Referral linkage and Person-Centered
Planning
Coordinates discharge planning
Coordinates community re-entry following hospitalization, residential services, and other
levels of care.
First Responder crisis response on 24/7/365 basis to consumers experiencing a crisis.
Service coordination activities within the person-centered plan
Skill building
Daily and Community Living Skills
Socialization skills
Adaptation skills
Symptom monitoring and management skills
Education substance abuse
Therapeutic mentoring
Behavior and anger management techniques
Additionally, the Certified Peer Support Specialist will be responsible for required documentation.