Certified Peer Specialist - IRTS

SpringPath Mental Health Services

The Certified Peer Support Specialist works as part of the Intensive Residential Treatment Service team, which provides care and treatment for persons who are experiencing significant mental health/psychiatric symptoms, who are demonstrating significant functional impairments, and who may have co-occurring chemical dependency and or personality disorder. Peer Specialists are fully integrated team members who provide individualized and group services in the residence and the community and promote client self-determination and decision making. Peer Specialists also provide essential expertise and consultation to the entire team to promote a culture in which each person's point of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected, and integrated into treatment, rehabilitation, and community self-help activities.

Willingness to provide peer-recovery education
• Assist peers with assessing their unique strengths and abilities
• Help peers with identifying, developing and working towards recovery goals
• Assist peers with developing self-advocacy skills
• Help peers identify and access appropriate professional resources
• Act as a community liaison
• Provide education for team members regarding the recovery process
• Assist in implementing and developing treatment goal plans
• Sit in case management meetings
• Provide care and resources for clients and staff on culture
• Serves as a link to community resources, teaches and models client self-advocacy and acts as a community liaison/educator
• Reports significant/major incidents or accidents
• Medication administration
• Adheres to data privacy practices/HIPAA
• Writes progress notes and assists in summaries and discharges.
• Monitors and records, medication administration activities.
• Provides objective verbal and written critical incident analysis.
• Documents essential activities related to licensure, welfare and safety

• Must be at least 21 years old.
• Have a GED or high school diploma, associate of arts degree in one of the behavioral sciences or human services preferred
• Have or had a primary diagnosis of mental illness
• Be current or former consumer of mental health services
• Demonstrate dedication to promoting recovery opportunities in lives of peers
• Demonstrate ability to utilize own lived experience of recovery to inspire recovery in the lives of peers
• Successfully complete the MN Department of Human Services approved Certified Peer Specialist training and certification exam
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Excellent customer service skills
• Ability to prioritize, meet deadlines and multitask
• Experience with MS Office (Word, Excel)