Peer Support Specialist

The Peer Specialist is a person with lived mental health experience who uses their recovery experiences as a means to help others diagnosed with a mental illness find their own recovery process. The peer specialist is part of a multi-disciplinary team that participates in the planning and organizing of individual and group activities that promotes a range of self-help skills.
Education: High School or equivalent.
Experience: Advanced computer and keyboarding skills. (Must be able to operate basic functions in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word) and several EHR systems.) Successful completion of Peer Specialist Training and Peer Specialist Internship Program or a willingness to obtain this training. Experience working with consumers and/or family members of a consumer of mental health service is a plus. Experience as a family advocate is a plus.
Licenses/Certification: Must have a valid Colorado driver's license within thirty days of hire.
Essential Functions:

• Provides crisis intervention, evaluation and case management services to clients accessing mobile crisis, emergency department, and outpatient. These services are delivered in the office and within the community.
• Respond with Mobile Crisis Clinician as part of a co-responder team.
• Provides care attendant services in the emergency room to both voluntary and involuntary patients who are experiencing a crisis.
• Drives patients from emergency room in GVH secure transport vehicle to higher level of care.
• Conducts initial screenings for persons requesting or referred to emergency services.
• • Assessing functionality
  • Assessing readiness
  • Goal setting
    Facilitates psychosocial rehabilitation learning processes to support client recovery by:
  • Directing and teaching skills that include illness self-management, social and interpersonal effectiveness, independent community living competencies and job readiness.
• Refers and links clients to needed community resources in order to maximize client functioning; serves as advocate to provide support when asked to do so by the client.
• Participates in crisis intervention plans that may include providing transportation and acting as a companion for a person needing additional support during a crisis.
• Delivers person-centered, culturally sensitive, trauma informed services. These services may be delivered in various locations.
• Observes client behavior to identify change or indicators of specific needs and shares those observations with designated staff as needed in order to carry out treatment plan goals.
• Demonstrates positive role-modeling for the clients, mentoring and coaching utilizing recovery and rehabilitation concepts.

Compensation: $17.00 - $19.55/hr, depending on experience. Overnight shift differential of $5.25/hr
Physical Requirements
Occasionally (0-33%) - Standing, walking, reaching, reach across midline, handling, crouching/squatting, stooping, stairs, lifting (0-20 lbs), carrying (0-20 lbs), pushing/pulling (20-50 lbs)
Frequently (34 - 66%) - Sitting
Continuously (37 -100%) See with corrective eyewear, hear clearly with assistance
Shift - 8, 12 hours
Schedule - Hours are 7pm-7am Sunday, Monday and Tuesday and 7pm-1am on Wednesday
Status - FT
There is no deadline to apply for this position; we are accepting applications on an ongoing basis until a finalist is selected.
Your total compensation goes beyond the number on your paycheck. Gunnison Valley Health provides generous leave, health plans and retirement contributions that add to your bottom line.
Benefits Eligibility
Medical, dental, vision, health care FSA, dependent care FSA, and Lifestyle Spending Account: All active employees working 40 or more hours per pay period in a Full Time or Part Time position are eligible for benefits on the first of the month after hire.
Full Time staff are automatically enrolled in 401A plan as of date of hire.
Life and AD&D insurance: All active employees working 40 or more hours per pay period are eligible for benefits on the first of the month after hire date.
Short-term and long-term disability: All active employees working 60 or more hours per pay period are eligible for benefits on the first of the month after hire date.
Work Environment
As a health care organization, we operate 24/7, 365 days per year. Candidates should be available to work a variety of shifts (days shift and night shift), weekends, and holidays. This position is full-time, with 12 hour shifts. This position can be fast paced at times, and slow paced at times, and candidates should be able to perform in both scenarios.