Family Peer Specialist

5 days ago

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Resources For Human Development Full time
Job Title: Family Peer Specialist

Resources for Human Development, Inc. is seeking a Family Peer Specialist to join our Intensive Behavioral Health Services Team (IBHS). As a Family Peer Specialist, you will provide peer support to children and their families, helping them navigate the complexities of the mental health system.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Complete a Strengths, Needs, Culture discovery for every IBHS family
  • Engage families in the IBHS process and ensure their voice is a part of treatment planning
  • Identify and connect families to resources and services
  • Assist families build a network of natural and community supports
  • Attend treatment planning, inter-agency and multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) meetings
  • Utilizing lived-experience, provide support, modeling and coaching during meetings
  • Utilize Electronic Health Record, myAvatar, to document all youth and family contact via an independent note
  • Assist with crisis stabilization when needed
  • Collaborate with School District and community partners (i.e. STEP) in the implementation of IBHS to ensure continuity of care
  • Attend weekly individual and group supervision as directed
  • Participate in all mandatory and ongoing trainings specific training requirements for this Division.
Qualifications:
  • High School Diploma or GED
  • Valid PA driver's license
  • Personal experience raising a child or family member with behavioral health challenges, the juvenile justice system, and/or children's protective services (i.e., DHS)
Required Skills and Qualities:
  • Possess life experiences that allow them to form healthy working relationships with the adolescent and family as well as team members
  • Knowledge of community and natural supports which provide children, youth and young adults and families with opportunities to succeed
  • Ability to develop, manage and maintain relationships with others
  • Ability to remain understanding, patient, culturally aware and respectful to the child, family, and additional team members
  • Ability to role model effective behaviors
Working Conditions:

Special working conditions could cover a range of working outside of conventional 9am-5pm hours to include occasional on-call circumstances of evening and weekend work, working outdoors, working with challenging program participants, and so forth.

Physical Requirements:
  • Stand or Sit (stationary position)
  • Walk
  • Use hands or fingers to handle or feel (operate, activate, prepare, inspect, position)
  • Climb (stairs/ladders)
  • Talk/Hear (communicate, converse, convey, express/exchange information)
  • See (detect, identify, recognize, inspect, assess)
  • Pushing or Pulling
  • Repetitive Motion
  • Reaching (high or low)
  • Kneel, Stoop, Crouch or Crawl (position self, move)
Reporting Relationships:

Family Peer Specialist will report to the Clinical Director

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