What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Peer Specialist position at Alluma?
Job Details
Description
The Certified Peer Specialist serves on the client’s caregiving team and translates lived experience in mental health recovery to assist clients in regaining independence within the community and mastery over their recovery process. The Certified Peer Specialist will function as a role model to peers, exhibiting competency in personal recovery and use of coping skills, serving as a client advocate, and providing information and support to clients in their homes and other community settings. Certified Peer Specialists assist clients in articulating their personal goals for recovery, learning and developing empowering skills, and modeling effective coping techniques.
Qualifications
- Lived experience with a mental health and/or substance use diagnosis and a current or past consumer of mental health services
- Certification as a Peer Specialist, either obtained before employment or scheduled to attend with assistance from Alluma before employment
- High School Diploma or GED
- Must pass a criminal background check
- Access to a personal vehicle and the ability and willingness to use the vehicle in carrying out the position’s responsibilities
- Valid driver’s license and insurable under the agency’s automobile insurance
- Free from substance use problems for no less than two
- Preferred two years in mental health recovery
Salary : $18 - $19