ACTT Peer Support Specialist

Overview

Make a Difference in Someone’s Life! At Monarch, we work together to provide life-changing care in communities across North Carolina and Rhode Island. As a team, we provide hope, promote wellness, and empower individuals and families impacted by mental illness, substance use disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and traumatic brain injury.

You deserve a positive and encouraging work environment - a place where you can do your best work and grow as a professional. That is just what you’ll find e, we care for people, including our team members. We offer a comprehensive, competitive benefits package that supports full-time and part-time team members and their families. More than just a job, this opportunity with Monarch will give you room to spread your wings and grow because we believe in promoting from within and developing future leaders.

This Opportunity: The primary responsibilities of the Assertive Community Treatment Team Peer Support Specialist are to provide individualized services in the community and promote individual self-determination and decision-making. ACTT Peer Support Specialists also provide essential expertise and consultation to the staff to promote a culture in which each individual’s point of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected, and integrated into treatment, rehabilitation, and community self-help.

• Carry out duties as a member of the Assertive Community Treatment Team staff, under the direction of the Assertive Community Treatment Team Leader.
• Participate in comprehensive assessment of psychiatric history (onset, course, and effect of illness, past treatment and responses, risk behaviors, and accomplishments), mental status, and diagnosis; physical health and dental health; use of drugs and alcohol; education and employment; social development and functioning; activities of daily living (self-care, living situation, nutrition, money management); and family structure and relationships.
• Document participant progress to maintain a permanent record of activity according to the agency s established methods and procedures.
• Participate in staff organizational meetings and treatment planning review meetings.
• Contribute to the program s ongoing assessment of participants’ mental illness symptoms and participants’ response to treatment. Share observations and concerns with the staff for consultation and direction and take appropriate action.
• Provide direct services to participants on an individual, group, and family basis in the office and in community settings to teach symptom-management techniques and promote personal growth and development by assisting participants to cope with internal and external stresses and move ahead with their goals.
• Provide work-related supportive services, such as assistance securing necessary clothing and grooming supplies, wake-up calls, transportation.
• Perform mentoring, problem solving. Offer encouragement on and off the job site.
• Provide ongoing assessment, problem solving, side-by-side services, skill teaching, support (prompts, assignments, encouragement), and environmental adaptations to assist participants with activities of daily living.
• Assist participants to find and maintain a safe and affordable place to live—apartment hunting, finding a roommate, landlord negotiations, cleaning, furnishing and decorating, and procuring necessities (telephone, furniture, utility hook-up). Assist and support them to perform household activities, including house cleaning and laundry.
• Assist and support participants in obtaining adequate financial support (help to gain employment and apply for entitlements). Teach money-management skills (budgeting and paying bills) and assist participants in accessing financial services such as bank checking and savings accounts.
• Help participants to access reliable transportation (obtain a driver s license and car and car insurance, arrange for cabs, use public transportation, find rides).
• Assist and support participants to have and effectively use a personal primary care physician and dentist, and eye doctor if they wear glasses.
• Organize…