Emergency Services Peer Support Specialist
About the Organization
Lakes Region Mental Health Center (LRMHC) is the community mental health center serving Belknap and southern Grafton Counties. We provide services to 24 surrounding towns, and nearly 4,000 patients each year. A non-profit, private corporation founded in 1966, Lakes Region Mental Health Center is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors dedicated to our mission. We provide integrated mental and physical health care to children, adults, elders and their families who are living with – and recovering from- mental illness and/or emotional distress. Our dedicated professionals provide the highest quality of healthcare and collaborate with many other organizations in the region to improve access to care and meet the mental health needs of the community. By working in partnership with other health care providers, hospitals, law enforcement, corrections, courts, school districts, social workers and public health officials, we are able to provide a continuum of care for our patients and improve the quality of life in the Lakes Region.
About the Job
This is a great opportunity to be an integral part of our Emergency Services Team. The Peer Support Specialist will use their lived experience of recovery from mental illness and/or addiction to deliver services to promote mind-body recovery and resiliency.
Essential Responsibilities
- Serve as a team member and share personal and practical experience of recovery and knowledge of the delivery of mental health services to benefit the team and its patients.
- Provide medically necessary functional support services to patients while in the care of the Emergency Services department with a recovery focus to patients and their families.
- Maximize patient choice, self-determination and decision making in the planning, delivery and evaluation of treatment, recovery and support services
- Assists patients to discover and maintain a valued role(s) in the community.
- Facilitate and ensure patient choice, self-determination and decision making in the planning, delivery and evaluation of treatment.
- Provide advocacy and education on behalf of the patients and their families to legislators, decision makers, community members and agencies about mental health, recovery and peer support.
- Provide peer counseling and consultation to patients, family members and team, and acts as a liaison to community services.
- Serve on agency committees and assist in other agency activities.
- Attendance is a requirement of this position.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Human Services recommended. Personal/lived experience with mental illness required. Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation required.
Benefits
We offer an excellent benefit package which includes medical, dental, life and disability insurance; four weeks paid time off, eight paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, Flexible Spending Accounts, and a 403(b) retirement savings plan. In addition, we offer annual training to support licensure, and other engaging workplace training seminars. This institution is an equal opportunity provider.
If you are interested in applying, please visit www.lrmhc.org/careers to email kjordan@lrmhc.org!