West Georgia Regional Hospital in Columbus, GA is seeking qualified candidates for the position of full-time Certified Peer Specialist (Client Support Worker 2).
Job Description:
Certified Peer Specialists (CPS’s) work from the perspective of their lived experience to help build environments conducive to recovery.
They promote hope, personal responsibility, empowerment, education, and self-determination in the communities where they serve.
CPS’s are trained to assist others in skill-building, problem-solving, setting up and maintaining self-help mutual support groups, and building self-directed recovery tools.
A critical role of the CPS is supporting others in developing their recovery goals and specific steps to reach those goals.
They discuss the importance of acknowledging the presence of a mental illness and the need to de-stigmatize misconceptions surrounding this illness.
The Certified Peer Specialist provides a beneficial link between the Individual and their Treatment Team by encouraging compatible goals, objectives, and interventions.
Job Responsibilities and Performance Standards:
Under general supervision the Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) provides peer support services; serves as a consumer advocate; provides consumer information and peer support for consumers in a variety of settings.
Certified Peer Specialists receive referrals from treatment teams identifying specific needs geared to the recovery of the Individual.
Requests made by an Individual to receive assistance from the Certified Peer Specialist must be approved by the Treatment Team.
All referrals will be reviewed by Rehabilitation Services Leadership and approved by the Program Director.
New Admissions/Treatment Team
Meet with new admissions and outline the Certified Peer Specialist role, review the Team Process, and Patient Handbook.
(May accompany Individuals to their first Treatment Team Meeting.
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Conduct Functional Assessments for Team-Referred Individuals within the time frame set for completion which may include 1:1 Independent Living Skills education.
Document and review all interactions with assigned individuals and any significant interactions with non-assigned individuals.
Provide supervisor(s) and treatment team notification of any significant interactions.
Attend Treatment Team on assigned Units as requested & provide Treatment Team with requests from Individuals to receive services from Certified Peer Specialist.
Community Meetings/Peer Council
Attend/observe Unit Community Meeting one time per month on assigned Units.
Assist the Team Identified Individual as they conduct Unit Awareness Meetings to prepare and participate in the monthly Peer Council Meetings and encourage new future participants.
Accompany team referred individuals to Peer Council Meetings.
Document participation in Peer Council
Preferred Qualifications:
Peer Specialist certification is required.
Two years’ experience providing instruction, training, education, social skills, daily living skills, training in individual advocacy, or self-care instruction in an in-patient recovery-oriented setting.
Associate's degree in a related field from an accredited college or university OR One year of experience providing social or direct care services to groups of special needs individuals in a human services setting OR One year of experience at the lower level Client Support Worker 1 (SSS010) or position equivalent.
Note: Some positions may require a valid driver's license.
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