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Peer Specialist

2 months ago

Seattle, Washington, United States DESC Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated and compassionate Peer Specialist to join our Mobile Response Team (MRT) at DESC. As a Peer Specialist, you will work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to provide crisis intervention services, assessment, referral, and linkage to needed services for individuals experiencing homelessness, mental health, and substance use disorders.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide timely outreach services to individuals in crisis, including assessment, referral, and linkage to needed services.
  • As a member of the MRT team, provide multi-axial assessments, chemical dependency assessments, crisis intervention, stabilization, and meaningful engagement for adults.
  • Establish and implement plans to successfully engage clients in relevant services and other resources.
  • Facilitate recovery groups at housing sites and provide follow-up services aimed at establishing linkage to services for program participants.
  • Complete all data collection and documentation required of the MRT Project and DESC in a timely manner.
  • Develop and maintain cooperative relationships with traditional and non-traditional programs/services providing services for the population served.
  • Provide peer recovery support and assist residents with voicing their interests and goals through various channels.
  • Help participants identify, understand, and combat stigma and discrimination associated with mental health concerns and substance use disorders.
  • Integrate personal experience with mental health concerns and substance use disorders into work with program participants.
  • Work collaboratively with Peer Specialists across all DESC programs to grow, learn, develop with, and from one another.
Requirements
  • 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.
  • Interest in working with clients who are difficult to engage and maintain in traditional mental health/substance use disorder programs.
  • Ability to drive an agency or personal vehicle to conduct agency-related business.
  • Strong personal understanding from own experience in recovery and resilience, the value of client partnerships and client choice, and the balance between protection from harm and personal dignity.
  • Possess the cultural humility to learn to work effectively with individuals who are Black, Latinx, Native American, Alaska Native, Pacific Islander, LGBTQIA, and other groups who routinely face discrimination and have difficulty accessing the health care they deserve.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Has current Certified Peer Specialist certification from the Washington State Peer Counselor Training Program.
  • Knowledge of de-escalation skills, crisis intervention, and stabilization, and harm reduction strategies.
  • Experience in outreach or crisis work.
  • Bi-cultural background/experience.
  • Bi-lingual in Spanish/English.
About DESC

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.

Our vision is a community where no person is abandoned, ignored, or experiencing homelessness. We serve almost 2,000 people each day and are recognized nationally and regionally as an innovator in developing solutions to homelessness.