ACTT Peer Support Specialist
Company: Helping You Heal Llc
Location: Asheville
Posted on: April 24, 2024
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Job Description:
Benefits:
Competitive salary
Flexible schedule
Training & development
Helping You Heal is seeking a full time peer support specialist to
serve as a team member for a small caseload. The PSS will be a
contributing member of the team in meetings and support for other
staff. The PSS will coordinate care for clients and support their
goals. The PSS will also have to perform affiliated paperwork in a
timely manner. The PSS will be expected to be on call in a rotation
and also perform 75% of visits in the home or community of the
clients. It is a great role to help change lives! We have attached
the ACTT service definition for PSS role for reference. Passionate
Peers Please Apply!
Peer Specialist Each ACT team has at least 1.0 FTE NC Certified
Peer Support Specialist. No more than two individuals can share
this position. This professional's life experience with mental
illness or substance abuse and behavioral health services provides
expertise that professional training cannot replicate. To ensure
that the experience of the peer specialist is commensurate with
those served by ACT, for this position, the individual must have
"lived experience" and a personal recovery story specific to
primary mental illness. The certified peer support specialist is a
fully integrated team member who provides highly individualized
services in the community and promotes the self-determination and
shared decision-making abilities of beneficiaries. The
responsibilities of the Peer Support Specialist are as follows: a.
Provides coaching, mentoring, and consultation to the beneficiary
to promote recovery, self-advocacy, and self-direction; b. promotes
wellness management strategies, which includes delivering
manualized interventions (example, Wellness Recovery Action
Planning or Illness Management and Recovery); c. assists
beneficiaries in developing psychiatric advance directives; d.
models recovery values, attitudes, beliefs, and personal action to
encourage wellness and resilience; e. provides consultation to team
members to assist in understanding of recovery and the role of the
Peer Support Specialists, promoting a culture in which
beneficiaries' points of view and preferences are recognized,
understood, respected, and integrated into treatment; f. serves as
an active member of the ACT team, equivalent to other team members,
which includes facilitating the Person Centered Planning process
for beneficiaries assigned to him or her if a QP; and g. supports
and empowers the individual to exercise his or her legal rights
within the community.
Keywords: Helping You Heal Llc, Asheville , ACTT Peer Support Specialist, Other , Asheville, North Carolina
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