Peer Specialist

Pays:$50,000 per year

• Build relationships with program consumers and their networks of support
• Accompany clients to appointments and complete warm hand off referrals
• Work as a member of multidisciplinary treatment team that practices client centered and holistic care
• Communicate effectively with clients and collateral contacts and conduct outreach for care coordination and community connections.
• Provide advocacy services for clients, including assisting individuals in obtaining benefits and entitlements, food, housing, and access appropriate care in the community.
• Conduct outreach and engagement such as interim visits with individuals after a discharge from a hospital, rehab, or inpatient stay to facilitate community tenure and increased readiness while waiting for the first post- discharge visit with a community-based mental health provider.
• Assist in the selection and utilization of self-directed recovery tools such as relapse prevention planning as part of assisting clients with self-help tools.
• Connect individuals to self-help groups in the community.
• Provide recovery education and counseling to individuals and their family members.
• Provide transitional supports bridging from an institution to an individual's home.
• Provide pre-crisis and crisis support services.

• Follow-up with the individual and the individual's family/support network to confirm linkage to care, outpatient treatment or other community services.
• Participate in on call rotation as part of IMT team
• Participate in daily IMT staff and organizational meetings
• Become certified, with either a Provisional or Professional certification, within a year of hire.
• Practice according to the principles of recovery oriented and trauma informed service delivery.

• High school diploma or certified high school equivalency.

• Experience with substance use disorder, mental illness, and/or homelessness required.
• Bilingual (Spanish/English) strongly preferred