MRT Peer Support Specialist

Salary: $19.80/hour

Position Summary: The MRT Peer Support Specialist works with the MRT Therapist and MRT Care Coordinator to support children and adults experiencing mental health, behavioral health, or substance use-related crises in the community. Drawing on lived experience, the Peer Support Specialist builds supportive relationships that foster hope, recovery, and optimism while advocating for client voice and choice.

The Mobile Response Team works collaboratively with the Melbourne Police Department through a co-response model to assist individuals in the City of Melbourne area who are experiencing crisis-related needs.

Technical/Functional Expectations:

1. One-on-One Support – Essential Function: Provides one-on-one support and encouragement through stories of hope, recovery, and healing.

2. Goal Setting – Essential Function: Assists clients with setting goals, identifying positive environments, and strengthening social connections.

3. Advocacy – Essential Function: Advocates for active client engagement in team meetings and services.

4. Mentoring and Advocacy – Essential Function: Provides mentoring and advocacy that elevates client voice and recognizes the value of lived experience within agencies, communities, and systems.

5. Meeting Attendance – Essential Function: Attends Family Team Conferences and other collaborative meetings to support the client’s voice and promote coordination among service providers, family members, and system partners.

6. Other Duties as Assigned – Essential Function: Performs other incidental or related duties as assigned, including assisting and training others, performing duties of higher-rated positions for developmental purposes, and completing programmatic or operational functions that support MRT services based on service need and organizational priorities, within the scope of the employee’s qualifications and training.

Behavioral Competencies:

1. Listening: Pays attention to others, listens without interrupting, confirms understanding, and responds thoughtfully to questions and concerns.

2. Integrity: Demonstrates consistency between words and actions; protects confidential information; follows through on commitments; and does what is right, even when no one is watching.

3. Trust and Respect: Treats others honestly and respectfully, maintains confidentiality, keeps commitments, and follows through on responsibilities.

4. Adaptability: Adjusts approach when situations, priorities, or people change while remaining professional, flexible, and responsive to the needs of others.

5. Consideration: Shows respect for the feelings and needs of others, demonstrates courtesy, and remains attentive during communication.

6. Problem Solving: Uses sound judgment to identify root issues, develop realistic solutions, and take practical action to resolve problems.

7. Cultural Sensitivity: Works effectively with individuals from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds and demonstrates respect, inclusivity, and cultural awareness in all interactions.

8. Ethics: Models agency and system-of-care values by maintaining professionalism, integrity, and ethical standards while working collaboratively with employees, partners, stakeholders, and clients.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. High School Diploma required.

2. AA/AS Associate’s degree or equivalent preferred.

3. Former consumer experience in foster care and/or behavioral health.

4. Certified Recovery Peer Specialist (CRPS) certification is required, or the employee must obtain certification within one year of hire.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

1. Experience navigating complex systems to assist, guide, and empower clients.

2. Basic computer skills, including the ability to develop talking points or presentations for groups.

3. Public speaking skills necessary to communicate with small groups, stakeholders, system-of-care partners, and others about client needs and system challenges.

Physical Requirements:

1. Frequent sitting and standing.

2. Occasional walking, bending, stooping, and crouching.

3. Use of hands for grasping, typing, and writing.

4. Ability to reach, read, speak, and listen effectively.

5. Ability to lift and carry up to 20 pounds.

6. Ability to operate a motor vehicle and travel as required.

For more information regarding our screening process please visit Clearinghouse.com .

Family Partnerships of Central Florida is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. These employers also maintain Drug-Free Workplaces. Requests for Auxiliary Aids for Hearing Impaired or Limited English Proficiency Candidates may be made with a minimum of five (5) days notice to C Hernandez at View phone number on us.fitly.work.