ACT - Certified Peer Specialist

Certified Peer Specialist

Position Summary: A certified recovery coach or certified peer specialist carrying out rehabilitation and support functions who may be a consumer in recovery that have been specially credentialed based on their psychiatric and life experiences. Certified recovery coaches and certified peer specialists are fully integrated ACT team members who provide consultation to the ACT team and highly individualized services in the community, and who promote consumer self-determination and decision making.

ACT is an intensive, integrated, rehabilitative, crisis, treatment, and mental health community support service provided by an interdisciplinary team to individuals eighteen (18) and over with serious and persistent mental illness with dedicated staff time and specific staff-to-consumer ratios.

Service coverage by the ACT team is required twenty-four (24) hours per day, seven (7) days per week. Provides co-occurring disorders treatment using evidence-based and stage-appropriate interventions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide peer mentoring and self-advocacy coaching.


• Facilitate WRAP or IMR group sessions.


• Support development of psychiatric advance directives.


• Promote recovery-oriented team culture.


• Participate in Person-Centered Planning (if QP).

Qualifications:

• DC Certified Peer Support Specialist.


• Personal recovery story specific to mental illness.


• Strong boundaries and ability to model recovery.

Collaborative and strengths-focused approach

Salary: $55,000/yr

Additional Notes

Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

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