Peer Specialist
4 days ago
At Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC), we are committed to helping individuals with complex needs achieve their highest potential for health and well-being. As a Peer Specialist, you will play a vital role in promoting a culture of recovery and empowerment among our clients.
Key Responsibilities- Participate in a multi-disciplinary team providing outreach, engagement, and support to mentally ill adults.
- Integrate personal experience with mental illness into work with program participants, utilizing a recovery-based approach to assist consumers in reaching their fullest potential.
- Assist case managers in coordinating consumer supports and linkage, including access to food, clothing, hygiene services, medical care, community resources, and services.
- Advocate for clients' access to community resources and services, ensuring their needs are met and rights maintained.
- Plan and facilitate consumer meetings to elicit consumer input regarding mental health program performance and assure the consumer perspective is well-understood and reported back to the team.
- Participate in crisis intervention and safety management tasks, assisting consumers in accessing internal resources to reinforce their ability to resolve crisis on their own.
- Lived experience as a consumer of behavioral health services (mental health and/or substance use treatment) or be the parent or legal guardian of a child who has received behavioral health services.
- Ability to obtain Certified Peer Specialist certification from the Washington State Peer Counselor Training Program within 60 days of employment.
- Ability to meet Washington Department of Health requirements for registration as an Agency Affiliated Counselor (AAC) or any other superseding credential.
- Strong knowledge of recovery and resilience, the value of client partnerships and client choice, and the balance between protection from harm and personal dignity.
- Strong communication and writing skills.
- Ability to work flexible hours as required by program and staffing needs.
- Current Certified Peer Specialist certification from the Washington State Peer Counselor Training Program.
- Knowledge of de-escalation skills, crisis intervention & stabilization, and harm reduction strategies.
- Bi-cultural background/experience is helpful.
DESC is a nonprofit organization working to help people with the complex needs of homelessness, substance use disorders, and serious mental illness achieve their highest potential for health and well-being through comprehensive services, treatment, and housing.
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