Peer Support Services are structured and scheduled activities for adults age eighteen (18) and older with a diagnosis of Mental Health and Substance Use disorders.
Peer Supports are provided by Peer Support staff.
Peer Support Service is an individualized, recovery-focused service that allows individuals the opportunity to learn to manage their own recovery and advocacy process.
Interventions of Peer Support staff serve to enhance the development of natural supports, as well as coping and self-management skills.
Peer Support Services emphasize personal safety, self-worth, confidence, and growth, connection to the community, boundary setting, planning, self-advocacy, personal fulfillment, and development of social supports, and effective communication skills.
Services emphasize the acquisition; development; expansion of rehabilitative skills needed to move forward in recovery.
Examples of specific interventions include:
* Self Help: Cultivating the individual’s ability to make informed, independent choices.
Helping the individual develop a network of contacts for information and support based on experience of the Peer Support staff.
* System Advocacy: Assisting the individual to talk about what it means to have a mental illness to an audience or group.
Assisting the individual with writing a letter or making a telephone call about an issue related to mental illness or recovery.
* Individual Advocacy: Discussing concerns about medication with the Physician or Nurse at the individual’s request.
Helping the individual make appointments for psychiatric and general medical treatment when requested.
Guiding the individual toward a proactive role in health care.
*\*\*All applicants must be free of problematic substance use for 2 years.
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The Peer Support Specialist primary responsibilities are to direct, coordinate, and manage the activities of a comprehensive mental health program and to ensure the program operates in full compliance with relevant laws, ensure accuracy of data; compliance with regulation; and identify operational efficiencies.
The Peer Support Specialist will provide service activities to include the following interventions:
* Education and training of clients and others who have a legitimate role in addressing the needs identified in the Person Centered Plan
* Assist with skill enhancement or acquisition, and support ongoing treatment and functional gains
* Develop interpersonal and community relational skills, including adaptation to home, school, work and other natural environments
* Inform the client about benefits, community resources and services
* Assist the client in accessing benefits and services
* Arrange for the client to receive benefits and services
* Monitor service provision
* Case management to arrange, link or integrate multiple services as well as assessment and reassessment of the client’s need for services.
Provide coordination of movement across levels of care, directly to the person/family, Referral linkage and Person-Centered Planning
* Coordinates discharge planning
* Coordinates community re-entry following hospitalization, residential services and other levels of care
* Service coordination activities within the person-centered plan
* Skill building
* Daily and Community Living Skills
* Socialization skills
* Adaptation skills
* Symptom monitoring and management skills
Must hold a current credential from the Minnesota Certification Board, the Upper Midwest Indian Council on Addictive Disorders, or the National Association for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors.
An individual may also receive a credential from a tribal nation when providing peer recovery support services in a tribally licensed program.
The credential must demonstrate skills and training in the domains of ethics and boundaries, advocacy, mentoring and education, and recovery and wellness support.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $18.
00 - $24.
00 per hour
Schedule:
* 8 hour shift
Work Location: On the road
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