Peer Support Specialist

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