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MCHS Family of Services

Peer Navigator

Entry-Level JobVerifiedNo experience needed

Pay: Not specified

Posted: 2 weeks ago

Location: Detroit, MI (Onsite)

Last Updated: 3 days ago

Hours: Full-Time

Expires: 10/1/2026

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What they do

A Mental Health Assistant provides basic care and assistance with daily activities to patients with mental illnesses or cognitive disabilities. Helps patients dress and eat, monitors patients' well-being, and restrains patients if they become physically violent. Works in hospitals or mental health care facilities.

$36,084 / year median in Michigan

+7% projected growth

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Job Description

JOB SUMMARY

Peer Navigator provides support and supervises the young adults within the program utilizing their lived experiences while performing home-life training, assisting with, and participating in therapeutic activities and completing supportive record-keeping functions.

DUTIES AND JOB FUNCTIONS

Serve as a member of a group treatment team with the responsibility for ensuring each person successfully completes the goals set forth in their housing plan. Assist the young adults with daily life activities. Lead, supervise, and participate in recreational activities Responsible for conducting life-skills groups to young adults in the program on a weekly basis. Provide assistance with controlling disruptive behavior using agency approved methods of de-escalation and crisis intervention. Collaborate with other staff in planning for the group or its individual members and participate in making decisions. Organize and maintain case notes, assessments, case summaries, case records, and other related records as required.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

High school diploma or equivalent Valid Driver's License Must have "lived experience" with homelessness, mental health, substance use disorder, or psychological trauma