CHRP Certified Young Adult Peer Support Specialist - OP
Clinical High Risk for Psychosis (CHRP) Certified Young Adult Peer Support Specialist
At Alliance Healthcare Services (AHS), it is our mission to promote wellness in the community. Our not-for-profit organization is the largest comprehensive behavioral health provider in Shelby County. We offer outpatient, intensive outpatient, home-based, and community-based programs, including a continuum of crisis services to over 22,000 residents of Shelby County. We’re committed to bringing compassionate and dedicated individuals to help us continue to provide the best services to our community.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- High School Diploma or GED – requirement
- Young adult, 18-30, with mental illness of co-occurring disorder with lived experience in navigating the child and/or adult mental health system willing to share your story – requiremen
- Vehicle – requirement
- Reliable transportation
- Liability Insurance
- Valid Driver’s License
- Must obtain Young Adult Peer Support Specialist Certification by year (1) one of hire – requirement
- Must be willing to obtain CPR certification
- Experience in navigating the mental health, education and other child serving systems as well as knowledge of accessing services in the adult system.
- Must possess the ability and desire to learn new skills to include: cultural competency, procedures and rights, and addressing the needs of transition age youth
- Must be a good listener, supportive and able to help others to achieve a feeling of wellbeing
- Establish and maintain positive working relationships with all clients, AHS employees and community you interact with as an AHS employee
Key Job Responsibilities:
- Utilize tools such as Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) to assist clients in identifying goals and creating their own individual wellness and recovery plans
- Advocate with and for clients both in the community and on the team
- Provide direct peer-to-peer recovery support services to youth/young adults at clinical high risk for psychosis, assist them in accessing services and navigating both the child-serving and adult systems.
- Positively influence the team culture by advocating for participants, promoting a youth-friendly approach and encouraging the use of recovery-oriented language
- Assist clients in articulating personal goals for recovery through use of one-on-one and group sessions (e.g. peer support groups)
- Facilitate youth leadership opportunities (e.g. advisory council)
- Assist clients in setting up and sustaining self-help groups as well as link and refer them to locations of and joining existing groups
- Assist individual with transition from child services to adult services as needed
- Participate in treatment team meetings
- Assist clients in building social skills in the community
- Maintain documentation, records and reports as established by the agency, SAMHSA, CHRP, etc.
- Participate in on-call rotation and be available 24/7 during their on-call week to CHRP clients who may be experiencing a mental health crisis
- Other duties may be assigned by supervisor(s) to meet the needs of the consumer and AHS.
Shift Availability:
- (1) Full-Time: M/Tu/Th: 8:00am–4:30pm; W: 8:00am-5:30pm; F 8:00am-3:30pm
Additional Requirements:
- Fully vaccinated for COVID-19 as required per AHS policy
Health and Wellness:
- Medical Insurance Coverage
- Dental Insurance Coverage
- Vision Insurance Coverage
- Flexible Spending Account
- Long Term Disability – Company Paid
Financial Wellbeing:
- Competitive Compensation Packages
- Life Insurance – Company Paid
- 403b Retirement Plan with Company Funded Matching
- Employee Discounts provided through Life Mart
- Loan Forgiveness options through Federal programs (Public Service Loan Forgiveness and National Health Service Corps)
Career Development and Growth:
- Opportunities for growth and movement within the organization
Work Life Balance:
- Paid Time Off – To include PTO for vacations, illness, and personal days
- Flex Days – Company given PTO days
- Paid Holidays
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Application Question(s):
- Do you have reliable transportation with liability insurance?
- Are you a young adult, 18-30, with mental illness of co-occurring disorder with lived experience in navigating the child and/or adult mental health system willing to share your story?
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Required)
License/Certification:
- Driver's License (Required)