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About the Role

A Peer Support Specialist utilizes their lived experience and training to provide support services and education to individuals via group facilitation, individual mentorship, community collaboration, and the provision of alternative activities. The Peer Support Specialist uses a trauma-informed, strength-based model of support to foster and promote recovery and wellness with each client served.

Responsibilities

Provide client-centered, healing-centered peer support services to diverse individuals who may have experienced chronic homelessness, systems involvement, mental health challenges, substance use challenges, or a history of trauma.
Promote recovery, resiliency, and accountability to help others initiate or achieve long-term recovery to enhance quality of life, health, and wellness.
Meet with individual clients to establish a safe, healthy relationship for learning, problem-solving, and participating in community activities.
Assist clients in building a network of support and make referrals and coordinate client services as appropriate.
Facilitate regular support groups and social activities, on site and/or within the community, through the implementation of program curricula, experiential activities, presentations and discussions, field trips, and/or skill-based activities.
Participate in outreach opportunities to effectively engage with individuals who may be unfamiliar with LifeWorks services and supports.
Plan, develop, and provide recovery-related presentations and outreach on a variety of topics, such as harm reduction, substance use and disease prevention/intervention, health/mental health promotion, trauma and recovery, community resources, relationship-building, and coping strategies.
Advocate for clients within the community and internally to ensure that client needs are being recognized, represented, and addressed.
Develop and maintain positive working relationships with agency staff and community contacts such as referral sources, recovery community organizations, peer-run programs in non-recovery organizations, and other service providers.
Maintain up-to-date online documentation of client services and contacts by entering into agency database and document client progress toward recovery goals.
Comply with all requirements outlined by funding sources, licensure and accrediting bodies, the program, and the agency.
Provide additional duties as they relate to recovery support, including transporting clients in personal vehicles, resource navigation, and instrumental support.
Maintain approved non-clinical supervision and continuing education.
Use crisis intervention and de-escalation techniques to assist clients in mental or emotional crisis.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Requires a GED or HS Diploma and 2 years of related individual and group peer support experience.
Requires obtaining state certification as a Certified Peer Support Specialist (PSS).
Requires lived experience with trauma and substance use or mental health challenges.
Requires a record of maintaining own recovery over the past 2-year period.
Requires experience with databases.
Requires proficient level experience with Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
Required to possess a valid driver's license and have access to a personal reliable vehicle with valid auto insurance.
Standard First-Aid and CPR Certification as required by individual program.

Skills

Client Focus
Collaborates and Adapts
Honors Differences
Nimble Learning
Builds Trust
Action Oriented
Maintains a personal commitment to own mental health/substance use recovery.
Ability to share lived experiences in a helpful, inspirational way.
Model healthful behaviors.

Location

Austin, TX

Work Type

Part-time

Experience Level

2 years of related individual and group peer support experience
1+ years’ work experience as a Certified Peer Specialist/Peer Supporter

Education Level

GED or HS Diploma
Certified Peer Support Specialist (PSS) certification
Peer Support Specialist (Mental Health Peer Specialist, Recovery Support Peer Specialist) Texas Certification
Completed Youth and Young Adult Peer Support Training

Salary/Compensations

$22.75/hr

About the Company

With more than 50 years of experience working with youth experiencing homelessness, youth aging out of foster care, young adults, and young parents, LifeWorks is committed to solving youth homelessness through housing, mental health, education, and workforce services.
Our vision is a Central Texas where every young person has a place to call home, a sense of belonging, and the support to pursue a life they love.
We provide a full range of support services for vulnerable youth, ensuring that every young person has access to a safe home, the chance to heal, and opportunities to learn and work.
Through innovative problem-solving, shared accountability, and evidence-based solutions, we are relentless in achieving real, sustainable, and measurable results for the clients we serve.
A career at LifeWorks offers opportunities to grow professionally while making an immediate, lasting impact on the lives of youth and families in our community.
Join us in building a future where every young person has the stability and support to thrive.