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About the Role

Performs a wide range of tasks to assist peers in regaining independence and mastering their recovery process, utilizing various recovery resources.

Responsibilities

• Assist clients in articulating personal goals for recovery through one-to-one and group sessions.
• Support clients in identifying and creating goals and developing recovery plans.
• Assist clients in working with their case manager or treatment team to determine steps for achieving goals and self-directed recovery.
• Assist clients in setting up and sustaining self-help groups and locating existing groups.
• Utilize tools such as the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) for individual wellness and recovery plans.
• Teach and engage in problem-solving techniques with individuals and groups, sharing personal experiences and recovery strategies.
• Use sessions to teach clients how to identify and combat negative self-talk and overcome fears.
• Support clients’ vocational choices, assist with job selection, and provide interview tips.
• Assist clients in building social skills in the community to enhance job acquisition and tenure.
• Assist clients in obtaining decent and affordable housing in integrated, independent environments.
• Model effective coping techniques and self-help strategies.
• Serve as a recovery agent by providing and advocating for effective recovery-based services.
• Assist in obtaining services that suit individual recovery needs by providing names of staff, community resources, and groups.
• Inform clients about community and natural supports and how to use them in the recovery process.
• Assist clients in developing empowerment skills and combating stigma through self-advocacy.
• Provide opportunities for clients to demonstrate how they have handled similar problems through role-playing/modeling.
• Develop treatment/recovery plans based on client goals with assistance from the Program Coordinator/Team Leader.
• Document client strengths, needs, abilities, recovery goals, and interventions on treatment/recovery plans.
• Maintain working knowledge of current trends in the mental health field.
• Share recovery materials and attend continuing education seminars and training.

Requirements

• Knowledge of the Recovery process and the ability to facilitate recovery using established standardized mental health processes.
• Knowledge and skill to teach and engage in basic problem-solving strategies to support individual clients in self-directed recovery.
• Knowledge of the signs and symptoms of mental illness and the ability to assist clients to address symptoms using strategies such as positive self-talk.
• Knowledge and skill sufficient to use community resources necessary for independent living and ability to teach those skills to other individuals with severe mental illness.

Skills

• Problem-solving
• Communication
• Active Listening
• Empathy
• Advocacy
• Mentoring
• Facilitation
• Goal Setting
• Recovery Planning
• Community Resource Navigation
• Crisis Intervention (implied)
• Stigma Reduction
• Self-Advocacy
• Vocational Support
• Social Skills Training
• Housing Assistance
• Coping Techniques
• Self-Help Strategies