Employer Name:

Center for Community Resources

Location:

Honesdale

Position:

Crisis Certified Peer Specialist

Hours:

FT and PT available

Position Description:

Position Summary: Provide Crisis Peer Specialist support services as part of a team approach with mental health crisis intervention and crisis residential staff. Crisis Peer Specialist must be ready to discuss their own journey towards recovery.

Essential Functions:

• Assess, develop, implement and recommend modifications to a service plan that is short-term resulting from a crisis event.
• Coordinate with other members of the crisis residential multidisciplinary team to assist individuals with accessing community resources and meeting their treatment goals.
• Provide opportunities for individuals receiving service to direct their own recovery and advocacy processes.
• Facilitate psychoeducational support groups and activities.
• Accompany crisis intervention specialists as needed on requests for mobile crisis response.
• Teach and support the acquisition and utilization of recovery-oriented skills.
• Provide supervision of individuals in treatment to ensure their safety and compliance with facility rules and requirements.
• Engage in the supervision processes required for peer support services.
• Maintain quality standards.
• Facilitate the development of a sense of wellness and self-worth
• Other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements:

High school diploma or equivalent.

Has maintained at least 12 months of successful full or part-time paid or volunteer experience or obtained at least 24 credit hours of post-secondary education.
Identifies themselves as a mental health consumer in recovery or as a primary support person for an individual diagnosed with a serious mental illness.
Must be in recovery with at least two years sustained, current recovery history.

Completion of a peer specialist certification curriculum approved by the Department of Public Welfare.
Act 33/34 and FBI clearances.
Valid driver’s license.
Car insurance coverage verification

Instructions on how to apply:

Email resume to Joshua Gates at jgates@ccrinfo.org