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Sunrise Clinical Associates, PLLC
Community Support Team- Peer Support Specialist
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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.
$36,462 / year median in North Carolina
+11% projected growth
Job Description
Community Support Team- Peer Support Specialist Sunrise Clinical Associates, PLLC - 3.0 Winston-Salem, NC Job Details Full-time From $18 an hour 3 hours ago Benefits 401(k) Qualifications High school diploma or GED Driver's License Clinical information systems Working with adult populations Teaching Full Job Description Do you want to help someone with their journey into recovery?
Position:
(Community Support Team)Certified Peer Support Specialist Summary:
Community Support Team services provides supports to adults with a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mentel Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM-5) diagnosis of mental illness, substance use, or co-morbid disorder and who have complex and extensive treatment needs. This service consists of community-based mental health and substance use services, and structured rehabilitative interventions intended to increase and restore a beneficiary's ability to live successfully in the community. The team approach involves structured, face-to-face therapeutic interventions that assist in reestablishing the beneficiary's community roles related to the following life domains: emotional, behavioral, social, safety, housing, medical and health, educational, vocational, and legal. This team service includes a variety of interventions that are available 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week, 365-days-a-year. The service is designed to provide: (1) symptom stability by reducing presenting psychiatric or substance use disorder symptoms; (2) restoration interventions for development of interpersonal, community, coping and independent living skills; (3) psychoeducation; (4) first responder intervention to deescalate a crisis; and (5) service coordination and ensure linkage to community services and resources. Job Roles, Duties and Responsibilities- Serves as an active member of the Community Support Team
- Provides interventions according to the individualized Person-Centered Plan
- Approaches position as a role model, versus an expert authority
- Practices under supervision according to the service definition
- Documents services rendered in a progress note in EHR
- Participates in team meetings at least weekly
- Provides input into the person-centered planning process
- Guides and encourages recipients to take responsibility for and actively participate in their own recovery
- Models recovery values, attitudes, beliefs, and personal action to encourage wellness and resilience
- Teaches and promotes self-advocacy to the recipient
- Supports and empowers the recipient to exercise their legal rights within the community
- Participates in monthly supervision
- Attends staff meetings
- Participates in required trainings
- Follows NC Peer Support Certification Guidelines under the Behavioral Health Resource Plan, School of Social Work, UNC Chapel Hill
- Performs other reasonable tasks and assignment relevant to assist recipient in accomplishing goals or crisis prevention as delegated by supervisor Minimum qualifications: Must have a high school diploma or GED equivalency.