Mental Health Support Worker- Full Time

The Certified Peer Support Specialist is responsible for providing mentoring, guidance and support services to others who share similar lived experiences.

What will I do?

• Assists consumers with setting and attaining personal recovery goals, provides support resources, information and assist family/support systems.

• Work with agency staff to identify community supports and help consumers understand how to utilize these resources in the recovery process.

• Models coping techniques, self-help strategies and reinforces potential for recovery to consumers.

• Advocates on the consumer's behalf to the psychiatrist/psychologist/nurse/therapist by disclosing information related to consumer's health/treatment.

• Complete all required documentation for every consumer encounter utilizing NTC's Electronic Health Record (E.H.R) during tenure of employment.

• Develop and implement individual and group interventions.

• Attend required trainings, in-services, staff meetings and peer support coaching sessions and meetings. Participates in required supervisory meetings; access to Clinical Director on a regular basis.

Requirements

What will I need?

• In their own words, of how they achieved and maintained recovery and wellness

• Attest that they have a mental health diagnosis and have reached a place in their recovery pathway where they can positively support others in a similar situation.

Additional Benefits:

Student Loan Forgiveness- $25,000

Tuition assistance for related college degrees

Excellent employee & family health insurance

403b retirement plan match of 3%

On-Site gym coming soon

Flexible schedule

and much more...

E.O.E.

Salary Description

$16.00-$20.00 hr