Peer Specialist

$22 - $32/Yr

MultiCare Health System - Puyallup, WA

posted 23 days ago

Part-time - Entry Level
Puyallup, WA
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About the position

The Peer Specialist is a key multidisciplinary team position at MultiCare. Providing peer viewpoints about the recovery process, symptom management, and the persistence required by patients with severe and persistent mental illnesses to maintain a healthy lifestyle, you will collaborate to promote a team culture of respect, empathy and understanding.

Responsibilities

  • Assist clients in a wide range of services to regain control and success in their own lives, such as developing supportive relationships, self-advocacy, stable housing, education, and employment.
  • Provide peer counseling and support, drawing on common experiences as a peer, to validate patients' experiences and to provide guidance and encouragement to patients to take responsibility and actively participate in their own healthcare and wellness.
  • Serve as a mentor to patients to promote hope and empowerment.
  • Provide consultation from a mental health consumer perspective to the entire team concerning patients' experiences on symptoms of mental illness, responses to and opinions of treatment, and experiences of recovery.
  • Assist in the provision of direct clinical services to patients on an individual, group, and family basis in the office and in community settings to teach symptom/behavior-management techniques, support skill-building, and to strengthen skills to cope with internal and external stresses.
  • Encourage consumer self-help programs and consumer advocacy organizations that promote recovery.

Requirements

  • High school diploma preferred OR two years paid or volunteer work experience with individuals with severe and persistent mental illnesses.
  • Successful completion of assigned training.
  • Ability to obtain Agency Affiliated Counselor registration within 90 days of hire.
  • Peer Counselor certification, or the ability to acquire that certification within one year of date of hire.
  • Current BLS Certification.
  • Current Washington state driver's license.
  • Experience as a recipient of mental health services for severe and persistent mental health illness.
  • Depending on assigned area, proof of a safe driving record (which meets established MultiCare Standards) obtained by a motor vehicle report from the appropriate state may be required.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including competitive salary, medical, dental and retirement benefits, and paid time off.
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