Part-time Certified Peer Specialist - COMCARE

Department: COMCARE

Pay: $18.36 per hour.

Work Schedule: Monday-Saturday, 19 hours per week, between 7:00am-7:00pm, varied schedule.

Sedgwick County offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees that includes health coverages, paid leave, regular compensation reviews, retirement plans, and professional development opportunities. For more detailed information, please visit our benefits page at SC Benefits.

Provide goal-directed, medically necessary peer support services to adults with severe and persistent mental illness to assist them to remain in the least restrictive environment.

• Peer Support using identified and accepted methods to remediate symptoms of mental illness and/or improve emotional and functional well-being.
• Help consumers regain the ability to make independent choices and to take a proactive role in treatment.
• Share “lived experience” and model successful behavior and strategies.
• Provide transportation in personal passenger vehicle to support patient attendance in medical appointments and other therapeutic goal-related activities to include development of community resources, employment or education access, social or patient-run activities and related supports.

• Peer Support will make sure that groups are self-contained, and goal-directed to assist consumers in minimizing or resolving the effects of mental and emotional impairments.
• Peer Support will make sure that group facilitation is conducted with a recovery focus and using strategies for effective facilitation.

• Complete progress notes in accordance with COMCARE and CCBHC guidelines which meet requirements for medical necessity, goal-directed treatment, and patient response to treatment within prescribed timelines.
• Complete Notes for Record, Precautions statements and authorizations for release of records as required and/or recommended.
• Enters no show and cancellations for accuracy and completeness of medical record.
• Enter AIMS data as needed.

High school diploma or equivalent. Must self-identify as a present or former consumer of mental health services. Per Sedgwick County policy, this is a driving level position that requires a valid US driver’s license without restrictions and current proof of automobile insurance. Must have personal passenger vehicle for transportation of materials/individuals for essential functions. Must be able to achieve and maintain designation as a Certified Peer Support Specialist for the State of Kansas, including completion of all required training within 6 months of hire.

Meet the specifications as outlined in the CMHC licensing standards and pass KBI, DCF child abuse check, adult abuse registry, and motor vehicle screens. Must complete orientations provided by Sedgwick County and COMCARE.

1 year of experience in a related field. Designation as a Certified Peer Support Specialist for the State of Kansas.