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Peer Specialist
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As a Peer Specialist at DESC, you will play a vital role in promoting a culture of recovery and empowerment among our clients. You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team providing outreach, engagement, and support to mentally ill adults.
Key Responsibilities- 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, and community resources.
- Advocate for clients' access to community resources and services, ensuring their needs are met and rights are maintained.
- Plan and facilitate consumer meetings to elicit consumer input regarding mental health program performance.
- Participate in crisis intervention and safety management tasks.
- Assist consumers in voicing their interests and goals through various channels, including goal plans and crisis plans.
- Participate in the planning, organizing, and co-facilitating of self-help and educational group treatment services.
- Assess consumers' ADLs (Activities of Daily Living) 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- Lift and carry items weighing up to 25 pounds.
DESC 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.
