ACT Peer Support Specialist

Description

Horizon Health and Wellness, Inc. has offered quality healthcare services to central and southern Arizona for over 40 years. Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of the individuals, families and communities we serve, and empower them to attain their optimum potential. Our most important organizational philosophy is Kindness Matters. It is how we do our business and an essential component in all of our interactions with our patients and with each other.

We offer:

• Professional development and career advancement opportunities
• Competitive compensation
• Medical, dental, vision insurance
• 401k investment plan with company match
• Generous paid time off and paid holidays
• Tuition reimbursement
• The opportunity to help us make a difference in the lives of the patients and communities we serve.

Position Summary & Qualifications

The ACT Peer Support Specialist collaborates with other members of the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team to provide kind, empathetic, support, coaching, mentoring, and education for individuals. This position has been identified as a safety sensitive position that includes tasks or duties (i.e., driving) that the employer in good faith believes could affect the safety, health or reputation of the Agency, participants, the employee performing the task or others. In all duties listed in the job description, the ACT Peer Support Specialist is responsible for providing recovery peer support services to assigned caseload and documenting services provided. This position also creates a positive experience for individuals served where Kindness Matters

Qualifications Required

• Recovery Peer Support Specialist Certificate (or ability to get it within 3 months of hire).
• Self-identify as an individual who has their own lived experience of mental health conditions, and/or substance use, for which they have sought support and has an experience of sustained recovery (greater than one year) to share those experiences in peer-to-peer interactions.  
• HS diploma or GED; has been a consumer and is willing to share those experiences in peer-to-peer interactions.
• Must be 21 years of age or older.
• Possess valid driver’s license with acceptable driving record, telephone, and reliable transportation as position requires community-based services. 
• Certification in Crisis De-escalation (ie. CPI) training will be provided if the candidate does not possess active certification.
• Ability to lift 50 pounds.
• Ability to type and working knowledge/familiarity with computers and electronic clinical record keeping.
• Must obtain and maintain a fingerprint clearance card and pass a background check.
• Prior to providing services obtain Tuberculosis screening to confirm that individual is free from infectious tuberculosis and additional TB testing or screening questionnaires will be performed annually.
• CPR/First Aid Certification, training will be provided if the candidate does not possess active certification.
• Possess the physical, mental, and cognitive ability to perform specific clinical and/or tasks required by the position without posing a direct threat to the safety and security of patients.