PROGRAM: Community mental Health Center/Private Provider REPORTS TO: Director of Peer Support Services; Clinical Manager
SUPERVISED BY: Director of Peer Support Services; Clinical Manager; Behavioral Health Supervisor; Psychiatrist
RESPONSIBILITIES: Providers individual Peer Support Specialist (PSS) 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 individual's social environments (home, work, school). Help restore, rehabilitate, and support the development of daily living skills. Help improve each client's 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 Mississippi Behavioral Health Services staff, other agencies or community in natural supports as needed. Communicate client's status on a regular basis, including, but no 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 Care 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 Must receive DMH approved Certification as a Peer Support Specialist within 30 days of employment Applicants must be the parent or legal guardian of a child who is, or has, received behavioral health services. Applicants must have a high school diploma or GED. Applicants must have a valid drivers license.
