HELP PEOPLE LIVE INDEPENDENT LIVES

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

The PACT Peer Specialist uses their personal recovery experience as a tool to both support individuals receiving services from the team in all aspects of their recovery and support the PACT team in working with program participants from strengths-based perspective. Provide peer counseling and support, drawing on common experiences as a peer, to validate clients’ experiences and provide guidance and encouragement to take responsibility and actively participate in their own recovery on an individual and group basis. Provide practical help and supports, mentoring, advocacy, coordination, side-by-side individualized support, problem solving, direct assistance, and supervision to help clients obtain the necessities of daily living including medical and dental health care, legal and advocacy services, financial supports such as entitlements, housing subsidies, money-management services, and transportation. 

$1000 Sign on Bonus

Annual Raises

Competitive Benefits Package

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TEAM:

• A High School Diploma or HSE is required, along with past employment experience.
• It is preferable that the individual’s lived experience of mental health challenges includes experience with psychosis during his or her youth. However, personal experience with psychosis is not required. 
•  Ideally the Peer Specialist is a young adult; however, a Peer Specialist of any age may be considered for the position, if he or she relates well to young people.  
• As much as possible, the Peer Specialist should understand the community in which the team is based with an awareness of available community resources.  
• The Peer Specialist should also be someone who possesses the fundamental skills to meet the job requirements.  
• The Peer Specialist should demonstrate good interpersonal communications skills and the ability to empathize with, relate to and effectively work with participants of mental health services. 
•  The individual should have two years of active participation in mental health self-help activities, peer support or peer advocacy programs, or participant run organizations or similar experiences or programs.
•   They must possess the ability/ willingness to disclose their recovery story (where appropriate) for the purposes of empowerment.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY: 

It is the policy of AWARE to not discriminate in employment or employment opportunities based upon race, color, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, religion, creed, sex, or political beliefs.

It is also the policy of AWARE to not retaliate or allow, condone, or encourage others to retaliate against any applicant, employee, or past employee for opposing unlawful discriminatory practices, filing a discrimination complaint and/or testifying or participating in another manner in a discrimination proceeding.