CAT Peer Specialist Wakulla, Liberty and Franklin

Apalachee Center, Inc. is best known for helping individuals and families of North Florida succeed in recovering from emotional, psychiatric, and substance abuse crises. Apalachee Center, Inc. provides comprehensive behavioral health services across 8 counties (Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Taylor, and Wakulla Counties). Apalachee Center, Inc. offers competitive benefits for our full-time positions to include health, dental, vision, basic life insurance, long term disability, paid time off, and more. Overview A peer specialist uses his or her lived experience to serve as a mentor to provide support for persons with severe persistent mental illness and or substance use disorder. This role will promote hope and set person-centered recovery-oriented goals. The role is non-clinical and does not include treatment, assessment and/or clinical evaluations of peers. It involves developing a relationship of trust that builds peers’ resilience, hope, recovery skills, and connects them to treatment services. Essential/Core Job-specific Duties And Responsibilities Assist peers by using tools such as Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) to help peers discover safe wellness tools and create a crisis/post-crisis plan. Accomplished through regular meetings to help peers identify their own strengths and support them in using those strengths to communicate goals to staff and clinicians. Assist peers in working with their case manager and other clinician/prescriber in determining the steps to take to achieve their personal goals and self-directed recovery through individual and/or group settings. PS will support peers in finding and developing the self-directed recovery goals by providing skills building, based on personal strengths, supports and resources to aid them in achieving those goals. Role model competency in recovery, resiliency, wellness strategies and other techniques to the peers, coworkers and other staff. Share own personal recovery journey story to role model the value of recovery and teach peers appropriate self-advocacy to help peers sustain recovery success. Complete documentation and other paperwork accurately within 48 hours of service delivery and routed to supervisor approval. Will be directed on appropriate documentation and reviewed by supervisor. Meet service productivity standard of at least 62.5% (or 5 out of 8 work hours) for the provision of peer services which are supported by appropriate clinical record documentation that meets Clinical Record Handbook specifications and Agency business/clinical ethics standards. #J-18808-Ljbffr Apalachee Center