Peer Support Specialist
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Tueller Counseling Inc
Rexburg, ID, US
Summary
The Peer Support Specialist mentors and coaches members to achieve their self-identified recovery and resiliency goals. They are responsible for collaborating on individualized recovery plans and documenting all interventions accurately.
Job Description
Description
Title: Peer Support Specialist (PSS)
Purpose: Utilize your training, lived experience and experiential knowledge to mentor, guide and coach members as he/she works to achieve self-identified recovery and resiliency goals.
Qualifications:
- Must be 18 years or older
- High School education
- Has had lived experience with mental health illness or mental health illness co-occurring with substance use disorder.
- Has been in recovery for a minimum of 1 year.
- Has an active Peer Support Specialist certification.
Department: Community Work
Supervised by: Team Leader/Program Director/Clinical Supervisor
Positions supervised: None
Location: Client home, designated office space and/or community locations
Requirements
Job functions, responsibility and authority:
- Collaborate with the member and any other individual selected by the member to create an individualized recovery plan that reflects the member’s needs and preferences.
- Empower and engage the member to allow them to take ownership of their recovery plan.
- As a minimum, the PSS will collaborate with the member to formally review the recovery plan every 90 calendar days. However, revisions to the recovery plan will be made whenever there are significant changes in the member’s condition, needs, or preferences.
- Encourage self-determination, hope, insight, and the development of new skills.
- Connect with professional and non-professional recovery resources.
- Help decrease isolation and build a community of support for members.
- Complete accurate progress notes documenting all PSS interventions.
- Submit all progress notes, reviews and treatment plans from the previous week Sunday by midnight, along with timesheets and weekly hours forms. Note corrections are due Tuesday at noon. Reviews and recovery plans corrections are due Thursday at noon.
- Allow new employees the opportunity to shadow you while providing direct service as a training tool.
- Any other tasks as assigned
- Attend weekly meetings as assigned
- Report accusations of abuse as outlined in Policies and Procedures #320.
- Maintain all required documentation for employee file including any certificate requirements and a current enhanced background check.
Salary Range:
$17/hr-$21/hr
Tueller Counseling Services is a trusted, established mental health clinic with multiple facilities in the Southeast Idaho region. In 2004, Thomas Tueller started working for a parent company alongside four employees, offering mental health services. In 2011, Thomas branched off and began Tueller Counseling Services in Idaho Falls. The Rigby office was opened later that same year, and the Rexburg office opened the following year in 2012. The Pocatello office opened in 2014, and there are currently more than 75 employees working at Tueller Counseling Services in all four locations.
Tueller Counseling began as a mental health clinic - focusing on children, adolescents, adults and their families by helping to provide a safe, caring, and supportive environment.
Founded
2002
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Mental Health Care
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Idaho Falls, Idaho
Tueller Counseling Services is a trusted, established mental health clinic with multiple facilities in the Southeast Idaho region. In 2004, Thomas Tueller started working for a parent company alongside four employees, offering mental health services. In 2011, Thomas branched off and began Tueller Counseling Services in Idaho Falls. The Rigby office was opened later that same year, and the Rexburg office opened the following year in 2012. The Pocatello office opened in 2014, and there are currently more than 75 employees working at Tueller Counseling Services in all four locations.
Tueller Counseling began as a mental health clinic - focusing on children, adolescents, adults and their families by helping to provide a safe, caring, and supportive environment.
Founded
2002
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Mental Health Care
Org type
Privately Held
Headquarters
Idaho Falls, Idaho
