Certified Peer Support Specialist - Outreach

Full Time

Homeless Outreach

$21.01 - $28.66

Schedule: Monday through Friday 8am to 430pm

Comprehensive Life Resources is looking for a qualified Certified Peer Support Specialist to join our team in Downtown Tacoma, WA.

We offer: Medical, Dental, and Vision with 100% paid premiums for employees. 11 paid holidays, 403(b)-retirement plan, Life Insurance, Long term Disability, Employee Assistance Program (up to 6 consultations per year), Mileage reimbursement, Tuition Assistance, Paid Sick and Vacation leave, Bereavement Leave, Student Loan Repayment, and Continuing Education Assistance. All benefits contingent on working a scheduled 40hrs a week.

Scope:

A peer provides interventions through the use of shared experiences to assist clients in the acquisition and exercise of skills needed to support the client's recovery. Interventions may include activities that assist clients in accessing or engaging in treatment and in symptom management; promote social connection, recovery, and self-advocacy; provide guidance in the development of natural community supports and basic daily living skills; and support clients in engagement, motivation, and maintenance related to achieving and maintaining health and wellness goals.

Will be required to transport clients as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Assist clients in skill building to promote recovery, self-direction, self-advocacy
• Facilitate wellness management and recovery strategies (e.g., IMR, WRAP)
• Promote and model recovery principles and values within and as a member of multidisciplinary client support team
• Provide information and support about skills related to health, wellness, and recovery
• Educate clients about daily living skills, self-advocacy skills, healthcare and other systems navigation
• Connect clients to community resources and natural supports
• Identify strengths and assets, and setting goals, led by the person receiving the Peer’s support
• Promote hope through sharing of lived experience
• Role model ongoing recovery and wellness management
• Attend/facilitate treatment team meetings, staff meetings, and designated staff training and consultation sessions as assigned.
• Ensure that ethical and professional standards of practice are maintained by following all CLR policies and seeking regular consultation.
• Actively participate in Peer supervision and training for continued professional growth.

Competencies:

• Ability to engage clients in collaborative and caring relationships
• Personalizes peer support; assists clients in recovery planning, to set and accomplish goals related to home, work, community and health.
• Provides information and links to resources, services, supports, and skills related to recovery, health, and wellness
• Demonstrates skills in telling their recovery stories and using their lived experiences as a way of inspiring and supporting a person living with behavioral health conditions. (Family peer support workers likewise share their personal experiences of self-care and supporting a family-member who is living with behavioral health conditions.)
• Ability to interact verbally and in writing with colleagues and others.
• Supports collaboration and teamwork; ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with colleagues and others to enhance the peer support provided.
• Recognizes the limits of their knowledge and when to seek assistance from others, using supervision (mentoring, reflection) effectively by monitoring self and relationships, preparing for meetings and engaging in problem-solving strategies with the supervisor (mentor, peer)
• Ability to self-reflect and examine own personal biases, motivations, judgments, and feelings that may be activated by the peer work, recognize signs of distress, and know when to seek support
• Committed to professional growth, seeking to increase knowledge and skills of peer support

Qualifications

• WA State credential or ability to become credentialed
• Proficiency in common Microsoft applications
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize deadlines, work independently, take initiative, and maintain confidentiality
• Active/current credential as a Certified Peer Specialist per WA DOH
• Must have valid driver’s license, proof of insurance, and working vehicle.

Equipment/Machines Used: Basic office equipment to include computer, printer, copier, fax, scanner, tablet and telephone.

Physical and Sensory Requirements

Must have the ability to:

• Sit for 2 total hours per day, and up to 1 total consecutive hour
• Stand for 8 total hours per day and up to 2 total consecutive hours
• Walk 6 total hours per day and up to 10 total consecutive minutes
• Use upper extremities for frequent lifting of objects up to 10 pounds

Must have the ability for:

• Frequent stooping and bending
• Frequent reaching above shoulder level
• Touching as it relates to feeling objects by touching with the skin, particularly that of fingertips
• Hearing as it relates to normal conversation, high frequency and low frequency hearing sounds
• Seeing as it relates to general vision, near vision, color vision and peripheral vision

Working Conditions: Usual office conditions, computer use, and outside interactions.

Comprehensive Life Resources is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability status, and any other applicable legally protected characteristics and or class.