What are the responsibilities and job description for the Peer Specialist position at Agape Network Inc?
Why would you love working at Agape?
We are a faith based non-profit organization dedicated to restoring individuals and families to psychological, social, physical, and Spiritual health. You will be working with a team of passionate professionals eager to provide you with the necessary tools and knowledge to succeed and build your career.
Do you enjoy providing support and guiding people through the road of recovery? Would you like to use your experience and knowledge to make a difference in the life of those in need? The Peer Specialist is an active member of the Treatment Program and provides support services to clients with severe mental illness, severe emotional disturbances, and co-occurrent disorders in the outpatient setting.
Benefits Highlights
Retirement: 403B plan matching up to 5%
Balance: Competitive Vacation and PTO plan, 11 paid Holidays.
Development: Leadership development, personal and professional growth.
Culture: Loved and faith-based mission, respect to diversity; going through expansion and growth.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Engages in peer-to-peer counseling and education to clients, including advocacy, and direct service, using own recovery experience as a positive model.
- Serve as a consumer advocate, providing consumer information and peer support for clients in the outpatient settings that are part of the SAMHSA grant.
- Encourages individuals through their own recovery process by assisting individuals with learning about and accessing community resources independently.
- Collaborate with treatment team by attending weekly meetings.
- Serves as a role model and mentor to consumers to help provide empowerment.
- Collaboration with the treatment team to ensure protection of client rights and improve their knowledge of those rights as well as appropriate grievance and complaint filing procedures.
- Performs related and special projects that provide client’s needs, including community-based and/or agency events as assigned
- Facilitate group meetings to assist clients with daily living skills.
- Organize and lead individual and group leisure activities to provide increased social experiences.
- Link clients to a church in the area where client will be relocating after finishing the program.
Who we are:
Since 1981 we have been transforming the life of thousands. We are looking to continue helping more members of our community. We are now expanding and looking to build a bigger and stronger team of empathetic and caring mental health professionals.
Education and/or Experience:
High School Diploma/GED and at least six months relevant experience.
Our Mission is to “Restore individuals and families to psychological, social, physical, and Spiritual health.”
Agape Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free Workplace.
