Peer Specialist Job Description
Peer specialist
provides education and expertise from the perspective of a person with lived experience of mental illness to the team concerning various mental health/addiction recovery experiences.
Peer Specialist Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Assists with the development of the conference budget
Coordinates conference registration for gratis and discount attendees, including sending out discount codes, gathering expense reports and submitting for approval to the Operations Director
Coordinates speaker registration and hotel logistics
Assists with other conference tasks including development of agenda, save the date advance notice, invitation with link to registration, online registration website, online evaluation and CPE forms, conference program drafting and proofing, hotel registration, printing conference materials, speaker materials website, What to Know Before You Go advance email and other tasks
Assists with the development of webcasts, including set-up, promotions, and assisting technical staff with content
Teach problem solving and social skills to consumers individually or in a group setting, through role modeling, coaching, and skill building in such areas as money management, transportation use, time management
Coordinates Drop-In Center activities by setting up, making coffee and serving food
Telephone and/or face to face support to members and families to provide resources and support
Peers will make home visits
Work as part of a team to engage members in the care coordination program.The team includes intake and assessment specialists, care coordinators, and case managers
Peer Specialist Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Peer Specialist
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPR, CPI, THW, BCLS, BLS, AHA
Education for Peer Specialist
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the peer specialist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Education, Graduate Education, Department of Education, Graduate, Performance, Supervision, Communication, Interdisciplinary, Health, Human Services
Skills for Peer Specialist
Desired skills for peer specialist include:
New York community and state resources
Work experience with the Medicaid affiliated population desirable
Ability to use public transportation
Mental illness process
Recovery focused
Relevant community resources and methods for accessing them
Strengths based work in mental health/addiction recovery
Community-based peer
Family and parent support organizations and services
Local system of services
Desired experience for peer specialist includes:
Follows a proactive, service-oriented approach to finding solutions
Ability to effectively interact with cross-functional teams and all levels of management
2-4 years of experience in communications with employees and/or stakeholders
Bachelor’s degree or willingness to pursue (or extensive related work experience)
Function as a role model to peers
2 years of experience in health services or behavioral health field or in a peer support services role, knowledge of care-coordination and case management concepts
Peer Specialist Examples
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Peer Specialist Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of peer specialist. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for peer specialist
- Once a member has been located, and is engaged in the program, the Outreach and Engagement specialist transitions the member’s case to another team member for ongoing program services
- Utilize available data, such as health service claims, to identify additional outreach opportunities to locate members
- Form relationships with area health and social service providers to help increase collaboration around member outreach and engagement
- Provide telephonic and field based outreach to locate and engage members (e.g home, shelter or health care provider visits)
- Assist consumers in identifying triggers that lead to crisis situations
- Ensure all duties and responsibilities are performed for effective and appropriate benefit of patients to whom care and/or services are being provided
- Work with peers to identify wellness and recovery goals
- Receive regular weekly supervision from the FEP Clinical Team Leader, seeking additional supervision as needed
- Support peers in advocating for effective services
- Function as Human Rights Officer for the department of psychiatry
Qualifications for peer specialist
- Ability to represent strengths and needs of consumers to clinicians
- Ability to summarize and document in care coordination plans
- Able to prepare and make presentations and facilitate discussions
- WRAP and Whole Health training, preferred
- Certified Peer Specialists highly preferred
- Experience working with children/adolescents highly preferred
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a peer specialist. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for peer specialist
- Collaborate with the Department of Children and Families and the Department of Social Services as necessary to support members
- Build, develop and maintain a positive and collaborative relationship with providers and adult consumer and family organizations by establishing a local presence via telephone interactions and by attending meetings
- Outreach to, and work with family and adult consumer advocacy groups across the state
- Provide technical assistance to adult consumer and family groups, Community Collaborative
- Maintain a regionally assigned caseload while meeting all documentation expectations
- Works collaboratively with the intensive case management clinical care manager and members who meet criteria for the intensive case management program (ICM)
- If members choose not to enroll in ICM, but need additional supports
- If members are hospitalized, goes to the hospital to meet with members to discuss ICM and peer support
- Provide telephone and/or face to face support to members and families to provide resources and support.Member/families may need help navigating the system, completing applications
- Motivate donors to maximize fundraising at their community fundraising events
Qualifications for peer specialist
- Have a high school diploma, GED or equivalent
- Experience with dual-diagnosis and alcohol treatment is strongly preferred
- Certified Peer/Recovery Support Specialist required
- A high school diploma and two (2) years’ experience working directly with individuals with mental health conditions or in a behavioral health setting
- Applicants with personal or familial lived experience related to mental health conditions are strongly encouraged to apply
- Ability to document within care management system
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of peer specialist. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for peer specialist
- Work cross channels to maximize participation and fundraising for peer to peer events
- Manage event process, develop project plans, and identify venues, potential vendors, and other resources
- Monitor participation and fundraising results, track and report against approved budget to evaluate event success and determine future potential for a repeat activity
- Monitor and evaluate community fundraising events to measure key areas of support (demographics, geography, event type)
- Develop and maintain ongoing relationships with vendors, consultants, and other outside resources to ensure availability of quality resources for ongoing events activities
- Travel as needed to specific events to provide an onsite presence and resources
- Work collaboratively and interdepartmentally to fulfill event related strategic objectives
- Assist in standing up appropriate level of volunteer support for events in specific geographies
- Responsible for coordinating effective physician peer review to assess the quality of medical care by performing a critical review, utilizing skills and knowledge of clinical care guidelines and national priorities for care
- Performs an objective medical record review of each case identified regarding appropriateness of patient care based on evidence-based outcomes and clinical guidelines working with the department chairman, Director of Medical Staff Services and Physician Peer Review Committee to identify opportunities to improve and/or educational/training needs
Qualifications for peer specialist
- Knowledge of recovery principles and tools, such as wellness recovery action plans
- Lived experience with behavioral health preferred but not required
- Communicates effectively, using exceptional verbal and written skills demonstrates strong creative problem-solving and conflict management skills
- Graduation from a school of nursing with current RN licensure from Idaho
- Associate degree, with three years acute care nursing experience
- Demonstrated ability in clinical data collection, validation/analysis and reporting of projects
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Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a peer specialist. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for peer specialist
- Responsible for facilitating current physician performance evaluation activities in accordance with Joint Commission requirements including preparation of case summaries and accurate timely documentation for every case review for each medical staff department and committee involved in monitoring/improving quality and appropriateness of care
- Utilizes superior discretion and ability to maintain confidential, sensitive physician peer review information
- Reports all opportunities identified to improve processes policy/procedures
- Coordinates and/or attends department and committee meetings
- Works collaboratively with a wide range of healthcare professionals including providers other healthcare leaders and medical records personnel
- Performs additional duties and responsibilities as requested
- Collaborates in the development of the client’s recovery plan, which is one component of the overall care plan
- Supports clients as they move through the stages of change
- Assists clients with accessing recovery support services in the community
- Acts as a positive role model by sharing experience, knowledge, hope, and skills
Qualifications for peer specialist
- Certified Peer Specialist or Certified Recovery Specialist certification is preferred
- High school diploma or General Education Diploma (GED), and
- Graduation from an accredited college or university with an Associate’s degree or higher in psychology, social work, counseling, human services, or a closely related field
- Must have experience with Microsoft Office (word, Excel)
- Ability to use word processing, spreadsheet, power point presentation, and third party vendor specific software (MIDAS+, Premier inc. )
- Advanced knowledge of healthcare regulations, accreditation guidelines and standards related to the peer review process
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a peer specialist. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for peer specialist
- Reinforces, guides, and reassures the client that recovery is possible and is built on multiple strengths, coping abilities, and the resources available to each client
- Assists clients participating in ECM with gaining skills and resources needed to initiate and maintain recovery
- Assists in creating and sustaining a social and physical environment that is supportive of recovery
- Enhances identification with and participation in the recovery community
- Empowers clients to make self-determined and self-directed choices about their recovery pathway
- Provides support in face-to-face meetings and/or telephone support based on the client’s preference
- Helps clients maintain healthy community, family, and social connections
- Provides training to clients on recognizing relapse triggers and strategies to deal with avoiding a relapse
- Under general supervision, implement peer-led interventions to improve outcomes for patients in Medication Assisted Therapy
- Provide peer-related support and administrative assistance to clients at initial entry to treatment
Qualifications for peer specialist
- Positive and highly effective interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work effectively with various levels of management personnel, physicians, board members, and other community members
- Advanced skills in leadership and facilitation, decision-making, change management and conflict resolution
- Ability to manage multiple priority projects simultaneously
- Able to work effectively and efficiently under tight deadlines, high volumes, and multiple interruptions
- Demonstrates ability to maintain information in a confidential manner