Certified Peer Support Specialist Job Asheville area,North Carolina USA,Healthcare

This is a community based position, it is required to see clients in person. You MUST already be NCCPSS certified.

Responsibilities:

Assist clients in articulating personal goals for recovery through the use of one-to-one and group sessions. During these sessions the CPSS will support clients in identifying and creating goals and developing recovery plans with the skills, strengths, supports and resources to aid them in achieving those goals.

Assist clients in working with their case manager or treatment team in determining the steps he/she needs to take in order to achieve these goals and self-directed recovery.

Assist clients in setting up and sustaining self-help (mutual support) groups, as well as means of locating and joining existing groups.

Utilize tools such as the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) to assist clients in creating their own individual wellness and recovery plans.

Independently or with periodic assistance of higher graded treatment team members, utilize and teach problem solving techniques with individuals and groups; discussions will be utilized where clients will share common problems in daily living and methods they have employed to manage and cope with these problems. As one who has availed themselves to mental health services, the CPSS will share their own experiences and what skills, strengths, supports and resources they use.

As much as possible, the CPSS will share their own recovery story and as the facilitator of these sessions, will demonstrate how they have directed their own recovery.

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