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About the Role

The Peer Specialist will facilitate engagement with participants and families, promote community awareness of S:US services, encourage help-seeking, and serve as a bridge between team members and participants.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate engagement with teams by forging strong connections with participants and families.
• Undertake outreach activities to promote community awareness of S:US services.
• Encourage help-seeking behaviors.
• Serve as a bridge between team members and participants when they experience ambivalence about treatment.
• Develop authentic, meaningful relationships with individuals and families through empathy, sharing experiences, listening, and collaborating with genuine curiosity and interest.
• Understand, share, and discuss multiple frameworks for understanding life experiences such as psychosis with participants and the S:US team.
• Intentionally use language in the service of listening to understand and making space for complex personal stories of recovery and resilience.
• Advocate with and for program participants both in the larger community and on the team.
• Collaborate with participants to clarify their personal visions and develop their wellness toolkit.
• Support participants in strengthening their self-awareness, building life skills, and connecting to resources and community outside of the S:US team.
• Positively influence the team culture by advocating for clients, promoting a youth-friendly approach, and encouraging the use of recovery-oriented language.
• Help build an environment that operates from a belief in the human potential to grow and an understanding of human diversity.
• Maintain open and frequent communication with the team.
• Report safety and other concerns to the team.
• Keep notes on visits with program participants as required by the provider agency.
• Co-collaborate on reporting with the program participant.

Requirements

• Peer Certification is preferred.
• Lived experience of mental health challenges, preferably including experience with psychosis during youth.
• Relates well to young people.
• Understand the community in which the team is based with an awareness of available community resources.
• Has made positive and productive progress toward his or her own recovery.
• Demonstrate good interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to empathize with, relate to, and effectively work with participants of mental health services.
• Two years of active participation in mental health self-help activities, peer support or peer advocacy programs, or participant-run organizations or similar experiences or programs required.
• Must possess the ability/willingness to disclose their recovery story (where appropriate) for the purposes of empowerment.
• Excellent judgment/ability to understand boundaries when working with participants of mental health services is required.
• Adhere to on-call cell phone system to facilitate crisis intervention, emergencies, and other situations that require immediate action.

Skills

• Interpersonal communication
• Empathy
• Creative narrative sharing
• Advocacy
• Collaboration
• Active listening
• Problem-solving
• Crisis intervention

Experience Level

• Two years of active participation in mental health self-help activities, peer support or peer advocacy programs, or participant run organizations or similar experiences or programs required

Salary/Compensations

• USD $35,000.00/Yr. - USD $40,000.00/Yr.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package designed to support wellbeing and development.
• Health and wellness resources.
• Generous PTO.
• Professional development.

About the Company

• S:US IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
• Join a team of employees who cares about the wellbeing of others.
• We believe in fostering a culture built on our core values: respect, integrity, support, maximizing individual potential and continuous quality improvement.

Equal Opportunity

• S:US is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.
• S:US is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities, including allowance of the use of services animals.
• To request reasonable accommodation or if you believe such a request was improperly handled or denied, contact the Leave Team at MyMedicalLeave@sus.org.