Certified Peer Specialist
Towanda, PA
Full Time
Northern Tier Counseling, Inc.
Entry Level
Certified Peer Specialist
SUMMARY The Certified Peer Specialist position contributes to a peer support capacity to facilitate recovery, resiliency, and enhance wellness. Serves as a role model for recovery, for staff and clients/consumers. Helps clients/consumers to develop self-help skills, build support networks and foster the use of needed services.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Assists clients/consumers with setting and attaining personal recovery goals.
- Work with agency staff to identify community support and help clients/consumers understand how to utilize these resources in the recovery process.
- Provides support resources, information and assists family members/support systems to understand possible warning signs, triggers, appropriate supportive responses, wellness measures, and the overall recovery process.
- Models coping techniques, self-help strategies and reinforce the potential for recovery to clients/consumers.
- Advocates on the clients/consumers behalf to the psychiatrist/psychologist/nurse/therapist by disclosing information related to consumers health/treatment.
- Complete all required documentation for every client/consumer encounter.
- Develop and implement individual and group interventions.
- Attend required training courses, in-services, staff meetings and peer support coaching sessions and meetings. Participates in required supervisory meetings, access to Clinical Director on a regular basis.
- Utilize NTC’s Electronic Health Records (E.H.R.) during tenure of employment. Initial training, and on-going training, will be provided to employees by respective supervisors and/or assigned team members.
- Employees will be proficient in their job position within six (6) months. If at any time an employee feels they need more training/education, employee submits a request for such through their supervisor, manager, and/or director.
- Other duties and functions as assigned.
- Be a self-identified individual with a mental health diagnosis and who has reached a point in their recovery pathway where they can positively support others in similar situations.
- Be eighteen (18) years of age or older.
- Have completed a department approved peer services training.
- Obtain and maintain the certification as a CPS through the Pennsylvania Certification Board. The certification process can be found on the following website https://www.pacertboard.org.
- Current/Valid Driver’s License; Traveling Required; Reliable Vehicle and valid auto insurance; must have clean driving record
- Criminal history checks and child abuse certification in accordance with 23 Pa.C.S. §§ 6301—6386 (relating to Child Protective Services Law) and 55 Pa.?Code Chapter 3490 (relating to protective services) required.
- Demonstrated proficiency in reading and writing
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