Child Peer Support Specialist - Urgent Position

We are looking for a focused Child Peer Support Specialist to join our awesome team at Behavioral Services of Louisiana in Lake Charles, LA.
Growing your career as a Full Time Child Peer Support Specialist is an awesome opportunity to develop productive skills.
If you are strong in emotional intelligence, attention to detail and have the right commitment for the job, then apply for the position of Child Peer Support Specialist at Behavioral Services of Louisiana today!

PROGRAM: Family Support Organization Behavioral Services of Louisiana, LLC
REPORTS TO: Director of Operations
SUPERVISED BY: Support Specialist Supervisor
RESPONSIBILITIES: · Provides individual Peer Support Specialist services in the community.
· Assists clients in developing goals for treatment within the first 30 days of service.
· Assists clients in restoring, rehabilitating, and developing social and interpersonal skills.
· Identify, enhance, and establish support networks, community awareness, coping strategies, and improve functioning in the individuals social environments (home, work, school).
· Help restore, rehabilitate, and support the development of daily living skills.
· Help improve each clients self-management of the negative effects of psychiatric or emotional symptoms.
· Assists clients in identifying, effectively responding to or avoiding identified precursors (triggers) that lead to functional impairments.
· Help implement Peer Support Plan on an ongoing basis.
· Participate in collaborative meetings with Behavioral Health Services staff, other agencies or community and natural supports as needed.
· Communicate clients status on a regular basis, including, but not limited to changes in mood or functioning, medical issues and all crisis and health and safety issues.
· Be knowledgeable of and adept at producing effective, clinical documentation of every contact with recipient.
· Turning in notes on time according to policy. Document all no shows, and communicate all difficulties contacting clients with appropriate office staff.
· Be able, or willing to learn, to use computer interface to complete documentation for billing or other purposes as needed.
· Attend all office trainings as well as regular clinical supervision sessions with Clinical Manager and/or Case Manager.
· Document services provided regularly, concisely, and completely in accordance with clinical standards by office deadline.
· Return phone calls promptly
· Follow all safety rules
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: · Has at least a high school diploma or GED equivalent; and
· Must self-identify as a current or former consumer of mental health services; and
· Must demonstrate a minimum of 6 months in self-directed recovery within the last year; or
· Self-identify as a first degree family member

Benefits of working as a Child Peer Support Specialist in Lake Charles, LA:
? Excellent benefits
? Company offers career progression opportunities
? Attractive packageCompetitive Pay