Certified Peer Support Specialist - Part-time (Saginaw)

Candidate must be Certified as a Peer Support Specialist, not a Recovery Specialist or Coach.

POSITION REQUIRES HOME VISITS IN SAGINAW COGAUNTY

The Certified Peer Supports Specialist functions as part of a team to provide flexible services aimed at supporting, directly or indirectly, persons served.  The Certified Peer Supports Specialist is an individual who possesses a unique perspective to treatment, due to his/her own personal experience with Mental Illness that professional training cannot replicate.  They often act as a consultant to other team members, helping them understand the persons’ served perspectives and subjective experiences.  This position has a high degree of person integrity, generates positive energy, and makes a difference every day.

.Why a Certified Peer Support Specialist at Hope…

Make a difference in people's lives, including your own.

Here are just some of the ways Hope Network invests in you for all that you do:

• Pay - $14.00 - $17.00 (depending on experience and education)


• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance available


• Career pathing and growth opportunities


• Paid Training

How you will change lives…

• Support and promote a recovery-focused environment. Use experiences with personal recovery to offer hope, encouragement and reassurance to the people served within the program.   


• Participate in the person centered planning process as requested by the people that we serve.


• Work with program leadership to implement programmatic changes by utilizing evidence based practices (ex. Trauma Informed Care) to improve the quality of our services and outcomes.


• Assist the people we serve to become active participants in their treatment and encourage self-advocacy while. 


• Encourage those served to take personal responsibility for their own recovery and wellness. 


• Document interactions in the electronic medical record and coordinate with other treatment team members as necessary.


• In individual and group settings, provide services aimed at promoting independence, community inclusion and productivity.  Services offered will include but are not limited to: Assistance in applying for benefits, assistance in finding and maintaining housing, budgeting skills, Wellness Recovery Action Plan, care coordination and medical advocacy and follow up after psychiatric hospitalizations.
  
  

About you…

• You are passionate about serving others.


• You are helpful and professional with internal and external customers.


• You enjoy working independently and as part of a team.


• You act as a positive role model and coach for others.

We are Hopeful you have…

• Personal experience with Mental Illness and have received services through a Mental Heath Provider


• Firsthand knowledge of characteristics and conditions experienced by consumer population. 


• Must complete and achieve CT 101 training by DCH.


• Two years’ experience preferred.


• Valid Michigan Driver’s License.