Peer Support Specialist
Job Posting for Peer Support Specialist at The Ship Group Services
Job Description
TSG Community Services is a private for-profit corporation that provides structured, community-based services to individuals who have a primary diagnosis of mental illness, or emotional disturbance, and/or suffer from a chronic substance use disorder.
TSG Community Services is the reflection of our hard work and commitment to deliver quality services to individuals with developmental disabilities and to empower individuals with mental illness so they can drive their own recovery to achieve their individual goals, increase self-sufficiency live successfully within their community.
ROLE DESCRIPTION
The Peer Support will provide structured, scheduled services promoting recovery, self-determination, self-advocacy, engagement in self-care and wellness, educate/teach independent living skills, and assist with community integration.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Provide and facilitate community visits with participants in various settings weekly as assigned by program supervisor.
- Adhering to the peer support principles, values, and ethics
- Delivery of services based on the principles and philosophies of recovery to provide peer support services
- Ability to work in partnership with participant to explore and identify barriers to accessing community resources and engaging with service providers
- Ability to utilize own lived experience to support, encourage, and enhance participant’s work on their recovery based on the goals outlined in Person-Centered Plan
- Implementing interventions of recovery goals
- Ability to model and mentor recovery values, attitudes, beliefs, and personal actions to encourage resilience, wellness, and motivation to participants in various settings
- Ability to model, teach about in share decision-making tools to promote participants taking ownership for personal responsibility
- Modeling and teaching on healthy social interactions
- Teaching and assisting participants with community inclusion i.e., how to navigate the community, access resources/services, and develop a sense of community
- Assisting participants in navigating medical, social services, and medical systems/settings
- Recognizing and responding to potential conditions/situations emergent both physical and behavioral health, using crisis response interventions, collaboration, and consultation with appropriate stakeholders and resources/services according to agency standards
- Ability to collaborate with the program Qualified Professional to assess their own strengths and areas of growth and develop a supervision plan.
- Ability to explore with participants the importance and creating wellness identity through use of shared lived experiences
- Promoting self-advocacy by educating participants learning their human and legal rights and assisting/encouraging participant
- Following standards and program outcomes as outlined in the NC Division of Medical Assistance Clinical Coverage Policy 8G
- Completing all other assigned clinical-administrative tasks within the scope of practice.
QUALIFICATIONS
- High school diploma or general equivalence degree (GED)
- NC Certification for Certified Peer Support Specialist
- Preferred for candidates to have at least 1 year of paid experience with adults with SPMI
- Completed and maintains required training set forth by NC Division of Medical Assistance Clinical Coverage Policy 8G
- Complete all agency in-house or registered training
- Work within the scope of training and knowledge based on level of education and certification
Hourly Wage Estimation for Peer Support Specialist in Concord, NC
$27.05 to $40.04
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