Peer Specialist

At Tri-County Human Services, we are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Peer Specialist to join our team.

The Peer Specialist will provide direct input from a consumer's perspective, serving as a sounding board for individuals' issues and concerns. This role requires strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to role model competency in recovery and ongoing coping skills.

• Attend and participate in community forums dealing with substance abuse and mental health issues and concerns.
• Provide feedback to both the department and providers on services received.
• Assist providers in developing recovery objectives that meet individual progress towards their goals.
• Engage individuals in discussions about their experiences to promote understanding of life experiences and its effects on functioning and to promote hope for recovery.
• Develop rapport with persons involved in the criminal justice system, who have alcohol, addiction, mental health issues or who have other behavioral/emotional difficulties.
• Assist with enrollment for services provided by community behavioral health providers.
• Assist provider staff in identifying program environments that are conducive to recovery.
• Facilitate peer group support utilizing the Illness Management and Recovery model to facilitate problem solving, communication skills development and personal growth.
• Complete and maintain a personal recovery plan which includes identified person-centered strengths, needs, abilities, and goals, interventions to assist the person served in reaching these goals and progress made toward these goals.
• Attend treatment teams meeting as requested to promote and support consumer's insight to recovery as directed.
• Perform other reasonable and related duties as assigned.

• Requires a high school diploma or G.E.D. and at least one (1) year of full-time experience in a mental health or addictions treatment setting.
• Obtain certification as a Certified Peer Specialist by the Florida Certification Board.
• Requires knowledge of addictions treatment and/or mental health treatment programs and supportive services.
• Requires general understanding of the causes, nature, and treatment of substance abuse and/or mental health problems.