Certified Peer Specialist - Crisis Response Unit

The Certified Peer Specialist will provide professional, quality program services to the clients served by the Washington County Crisis Response Unit (CRU). Coordinate and monitor the assessment, planning process and follow-up for each client. Serve as an advocate and liaison for and on behalf of clients' rights and benefits.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide peer counseling and support to validate clients’ experiences. 
• Provide guidance and have a strong dedication to recovery. Encourage clients to take responsibility for and actively participate in their own recovery.

• Serve as a mentor to clients to promote hope and empowerment. 
• Help CRU team membersto better understand and empathize with each client’s unique and subjective experience and perception.
• Provide expertise, cross-training and consultation from the perspective of a mental health service user to the entire team.
• Collaborate with the team to promote a team culture in which client self-determination, client decision-making in treatment planning, and protection of client rights are supported. 
• Assist in the provision of ongoing assessment of clients’ mental illness symptoms and clients’ response to treatment.
• Provide services and support in line with current programming, serving people during both the initial Crisis Response and Crisis Stabilization.
• Assist in the provision of direct services to clients on an individual, group, and family basis. 
• Teach symptom-management techniques and promote personal growth and development with mental health issues and substance use issues.
• Assist, teach, and support clients with activities of daily living, vocational skills, accessing housing, maintaining financial supports, and utilizing buses and other transportation in the community.
• Provide side-by-side support, coaching and encouragement to help clients socialize and carry out leisure time activities on evenings, weekends, and holidays. 
• Organize and lead individual and group social and recreational activities and provide opportunities to practice social skills.
• Available to work weekend, evening, and holidays as needed. 
• Attend and participate in all scheduled team meetings.
• Complete documentation, reports, and charting contemporaneously and in an organized manner.
• Participate actively in on-going professional growth and development; maintain appropriate professional behavior and participate in supervision.
• Must be able to transport clients in the community.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Must have primary diagnosis of mental illness, be a current or former recipient of mental health services, must demonstrate leadership and advocacy skills and a strong dedication to recovery.
• Must be in the process of recovery
• Credentialed as a DHS Certified Peer Specialist

Preferred:

• Experience with delivery of mental health services to people with SPMI.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Behavioral Science as a related field

Benefits

• 4 weeks PTO first year of employment
• Casual dress code
• 12 holidays
• Medical (complementary access to NICE healthcare, a free primary care), dental, vision, life insurance
• Tuition reimbursement and Loan Repayment
• Reimbursement for professional licensure fees
• Routine supervision from a Mental Health Professional, with access to licensure supervision opportunities
• 403b retirement plan with an employer percentage match
• Employer paid short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Bereavement and paid parental leave
• Wellness program to support employee overall health and well-being
• Mileage reimbursement
• And more!

RADIAS Health is proud to be a LGBTQIA+, anti-racist, all-inclusive, and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, status as protected veteran, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other protected class status.