Certified Peer Specialist (Part-time)- IRTS
Pay: $26.09 per hour
RADIAS Health is seeking a Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) to join our Intensive Residential Treatment Services (IRTS) team. The IRTS team provide intensive mental health and integrated substance use disorder treatment for 16 clients at the Carlson Drake House in Bloomington, Minnesota.
This Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) functions as an integral part of a treatment team and provides peer support to clients who are served in the IRTS and Crisis program to promote socialization, recovery, self-sufficiency, self-advocacy and other skillsets. In this role, you will serve as an advocate and liaison for and on behalf of client rights and benefits and provides expertise and consultation from a mental health consumer perspective to the entire team.
Hours:
Available Shifts at Bloomington IRTS location:
- Part-time: Tuesday and Thursday 10 am - 6 pm, 16 hours per week
Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide peer support to validate clients’ experiences.
- Complete all paperwork, reports, and charting contemporaneously and in an organized manner.
- Have a strong dedication to recovery.
- Provide guidance and encouragement to clients to actively participate in their own recovery through individual and group experiences.
- Serve as a mentor to clients to promote hope and empowerment.
- Help IRTS team members to better understand and empathize with each client’s unique experience and perception.
- Collaborate with the IRTS staff to promote a team culture in which client self-determination, client decision-making in treatment planning, and protection of client rights are supported.
- Promote personal growth and development with mental health and substance abuse issues.
- Assist, teach, and support clients with activities of daily living, vocational skills, accessing housing, maintaining financial supports, and utilizing buses and other transportation in the community.
- Provide side-by-side support, coaching and encouragement to help clients socialize and carry out leisure time activities on evenings, weekends, and holidays. Organize and lead individual and group social and recreational activities and provide opportunities to practice social skills.
- Participate actively in on-going professional growth and development; maintain appropriate professional behavior and participate in appropriate supervision.
- Must be able to transport clients in the community.
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Must have a primary diagnosis of mental illness, be a current or former consumer of mental health services, must demonstrate leadership and advocacy skills and a strong dedication to recovery.
- Must be at least 21 years of age.
- DHS Certified Peer Specialist.(This is not the same as the Certified Peer Recovery Specialist)
- Must have car, auto insurance and driver's license.
Preferred
- Hold a bachelor's degree in the behavioral sciences and have 2000 hours of experience working with adults with serious persistent mental illness
- 4 weeks accrued PTO first year of employment
- 12 paid holidays
- Medical, dental, vision, life insurance
- Health Saving Accounts (HSA) + employer contribution and Flexible Saving Accounts (FSA)
- Tuition reimbursement and Student Loan Repayment Assistance
- Dependent Care Account (DCA) + employer contribution
- Reimbursement for professional licensure fees
- Routine supervision from a Mental Health Professional, with access to licensure supervision opportunities
- 403b retirement plan with an employer percentage match
- Employer paid short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Bereavement and paid parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Wellness program to support employee overall health and well-being
- Variety of discounts through ADP LifeSmart
- Pet insurance
- Mileage reimbursement
- Casual dress code
RADIAS Health is proud to be a LGBTQIA+, anti-racist, all-inclusive, and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, status as protected veteran, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other protected class status.
RADIAS Health is committed to pay transparency and equity, providing all employees and applicants with access to starting salary.
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