Milwaukee Mental Health Associates,Inc. Hiring For Certified Peer Support Specialist at Milwaukee, WI  Full Time

*Candidates MUST be certified or willing to obtain certification as a Peer Support Specialist. Please see the website below for steps on becoming certified.
  www.sce-peerspecialist.uwm.edu
   
Overall Function:

• The Peer Specialists are examples of recovery, meaning they have firsthand experience with some aspects of what the service recipients are experiencing at the time support services are needed.  

• The Peer Specialist engages and encourages mental health service recipients in recovery by providing them with a sense of belonging, supportive relationships, valued roles and community. The goal is to promote wellness, independent living, self-direction, recovery focus, enhancing the skill and ability of service recipients to meet their chosen goals. The Peer Specialist works with service recipients as equals except in having more recovery experience and training, looking for and empowering signs of wellness and recovery, encouraging strength perspectives and self-direction.

• Be a member of the individual treatment team for an assigned number of clients.
• Must have a reliable insured vehicle.

Education, Experience and Knowledge Required:
The Peer Support Specialist should have a High School Diploma or equivalent and preferably two years of related experience.  This person will be certified as a Peer Support Specialist.  The Peer Specialist shall have group facilitation or co-facilitation experience. This person should also have completed a Wellness Recovery Action Plan or another plan for self and have knowledge on how to run a group assisting service recipients in learning how to write their own Wellness Recovery Action Plan or another plan. Basic knowledge of how to assist recipients with locating community resources (employment, housing, health, peer delivered services including 12 step groups, etc.) Work or volunteer experience providing peer support.