Certified Peer Support Specialist /Macomb Health Partners/ Full-time (40hrs.)/ Days/ Mount Clemens MI - Full-time
Make a real impact – help someone build independence while building a career, you’re proud of.
This position does REQUIRE working in the community and performing home visits.
Candidate must be Certified as a Peer Support Specialist (mental health) not a Recovery Specialist (addiction) or Coach.
The Certified Peer Supports Specialist responsibilities include: HOME VISITS IN MACOMB COUNTY. Under direct supervision, the Certified Peer Supports Specialist functions as part of a team to provide flexible services aimed at supporting, directly or indirectly, persons served. Provides expertise that professional training cannot replicate due to his/her own personal experience with Mental Illness They often act as a consultant to other team members, helping them understand the persons’ served perspectives and subjective experiences. This position has a high degree of person integrity, generates positive energy, and makes a difference every day. This position promotes recovery-based, person-centered, and culturally competent practices.
What You’ll Do...
- Embrace the concepts of recovery and expects all personnel to follow the principles of recovery; supports and encourage this concept to enable the population we work with to reach their full potential.
- Create in others an awareness of their powers and self-worth, Engage persons-served and monitor their wellbeing.
- Participate in the Family/Guardian/Friends Liaison Program activities, building a friendly and open communication network with the natural supports of persons-served.
- Participate in building community relations and social networks that provide support, friendship, love and hope and ongoing peer review of clinical documentation.
- Provide linking with transportation resources related to personal care, community living supports, employment and/or planned activities.
- Facilitate, for persons-served, access to community resources and social support networks.
- Document on the progress, or lack of progress, towards goals of persons-served at the close of each shift.
- Make sure 100% of the routine/customary daily, monthly, quarterly, and/or annual internal data reports (required from Rehabilitation assistants) are submitted on tim
- Know the contract requirements for your program/service.
- Knowledgeable of the Program Fidelity Model.
What we’re looking for...
- You are passionate about serving others.
- Provide supreme customer service, always being courteous, responsive, professional, and helpful to the organization’s internal and external customers.
- You enjoy working independently and as part of a team.
- You act as a positive role model and coach for others.
What you’ll bring...
Required:
- Be willing to become a Certified Peer Support (if the certification has not been completed).
- Candidate must be Certified as a Peer Support Specialist (mental health) not a Recovery Specialist (addiction) or Coach.
- Firsthand knowledge of characteristics and conditions experienced by persons served.
- Must complete and achieve ACT 101 training by DCH.
- Credentialing & Privileging includes General ACT, Group Therapy, Co-occurring Treatment, and Peer Services Specialist Conference.
Preferred:
- Two years’ experience
- Concepts of Motivational Interviewing.
- Integrated Duel Diagnosis Treatment.
- Family Psycho Education.
- Seeking Safety, Family Psycho Education.
- Stages of Change.
- Trauma Informed Care.
- Integrated Care.
Top Benefits
We’re proud to offer a robust and meaningful benefits package to support your career growth and overall well-being:
- Wage: $15-$18 (depending on experience and education)
- Medical, Vision, & Dental Care depending on full or part time status.
- 401(b) Retirement Plan
- Paid Time Off
- Educational Reimbursement
- Career-Pathing
- Paid Training
- Employee Referral Bonus
Why Join Our Team?
Not your average Job. Not your average impact.
At Hope Network your not just filling a role , you're showing up for someone who needs consistency, encouragement, and support. Every day looks different, but thing stay the same: what you do matters.
Our teams are built on trust, collaboration, and a shared commitment to those we serve. We believe no hum is more valuable than the next - and the work you do here truly matters
Apply today and start making a difference