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Peer Specialist

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Job Title: Peer Specialist

At Downtown Emergency Service Center, we are seeking a compassionate and experienced Peer Specialist to join our team. As a Peer Specialist, you will play a vital role in providing consultation to our team, promoting a culture of understanding and respect for our clients' unique perspectives and preferences.

Job Summary:

The Peer Specialist will work closely with our multi-disciplinary team to provide outreach, engagement, and support services to mentally ill adults. This role requires a strong understanding of recovery and resilience, as well as the ability to communicate effectively with clients and staff from diverse backgrounds.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Participate in crisis intervention and safety management tasks.
  • Assist consumers with voicing their interests and goals through various channels.
  • Plan and facilitate consumer meetings to elicit consumer input regarding mental health program performance.
  • Collaborate with community providers to ensure continuity of care.
  • Assess consumers' ADLs and work with other clinical staff to plan for gaps in their skill base.
  • Participate in psychiatric consultation, supervision, program meetings, and in-service trainings.
  • Comply with the agency's clinical accountability policies and procedures.
Requirements:
  • Lived experience as a consumer of behavioral health services 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 relevant community resources and methods for accessing them.
  • Ability to work flexible hours as required by program and staffing needs.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • 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.
Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to sit for long periods of time, walk when completing rounds several times a day, move quickly during de-escalations, communicate with other persons by talking and hearing, and lift and carry items weighing up to 25 pounds and to operate computer hardware systems.

Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Downtown Emergency Service Center is committed to diversity in the workplace and promotes equal employment opportunities for all staff members and applicants. The Agency will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, caste, marital status, or the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability in any employment practice, unless based on a bona fide occupational qualification. Minorities and veterans are encouraged to apply.