CERTIFIED PEER SPECIALIST - MENTAL HEALTH - ELK RIVER - Military Veterans

at BrightSpring Health Services

Elk River, Minnesota

Our Company

Overview

Our operational team members focus on efficiently meeting the needs of our clients across various lines of business. If your passion is to ensure quality care to help our clients live their best life we encourage you to apply today!

Responsibilities

The Certified Peer Specialist works as part of a Forensic Assertive Community Team that provides care and treatment for clients that are experiencing significant mental health/psychiatric symptoms, who are demonstrating significant functional impairments, and who may have co-occurring chemical dependency and or personality disorder.  Peer Specialists are fully integrated team members who provide highly individualized services in the community and promote client self determination and decision making.

  • Peer Specialists provide essential expertise and consultation to the entire team to promote a culture in which each client’s point of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected, and integrated into treatment, rehabilitation, and community self-help activities.  
  • The practitioner has a two focused level of responsibility:  First, for the care, welfare, treatment, and safety of the clients as individuals. Secondly, for the facilitation of a work and a treatment culture that promotes trans-disciplinary team work, professionalism, cultural competency, and adherence to best practice principles and interventions. 
  • The Peer Specialist has responsibility for client specific and program outcomes.  Primary duties may include providing peer support in recovery, individual counseling, skills teaching, group work, coordination with the team, participation in treatment planning, illness management and recovery. 
  • FACT is an adaptation of the assertive community treatment model designed to serve people with a serious mental illness who are involved in the criminal justice system.  It features a collaborative relationship between the mental health professionals and the criminal justice agencies.  

 

Qualifications

  • Holds a bachelor's degree in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields from an accredited college or university.  Preferred experience in the delivery of services to persons with mental illness.  Upon completion of 4000 hours of supervised experience, the Peer Specialist would be eligible to do case management activities; such as assessment and treatment planning.  
  • This position requires only that license which may be required based on education and standards determined by educational/degree guidelines.  All Peer Recovery Specialists are supported in gaining certification as a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner and Certified Peer Specialist.  The agency encourages staff to seek license at the highest standard permitted by his/her education and experience.

About our Line of Business

ResCare Community Living has four decades of experience in the disability services field, providing support to individuals who need assistance with daily living due to an intellectual, developmental or cognitive disability. Our community living services are provided in 27 states with several thousand programs and a comprehensive range of high-quality services, including: Community Living, Adult Host Homes for adults regardless of disability, Behavioral/Mental Health Support, In-home Pharmacy Solutions, Telecare and Remote Support, Supported Employment and Training Programs, and Day programs. For more information, please visit www.rescarecommunityliving.com.
 

Elk River, Minnesota

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BrightSpring Health Services

BrightSpring is the parent company of a family of services and brands that provides clinical, nonclinical, pharmacy and ancillary care services for people of all ages, health and skill levels across home and community settings.

The company is the leading provider of diversified home and community-based health and pharmacy services to medically complex and high-need populations. Its primary businesses include: behavioral health (including autism services), home health care (including personal care, home health, and hospice), neuro therapy, and job placement and vocational training, supported by pharmacy and telecare ancillary technologies and services. These businesses employ over 50,000 dedicated team members in 50 states and provide services for over 350,000 people every day.

BrightSpring. Not just your best career. Your best life.

At BrightSpring, we need excellent people. To do excellent things. Have you wanted to make a difference in the lives of people – or entire communities? At BrightSpring you can.

This in fact could be the amazing opportunity you have been looking for. Have you wanted to find a place where there was no limit to the training you can receive throughout your career? BrightSpring® has it all. Why not find out what we can offer you?

BrightSpring lets you choose the health care field that fits you best.

·        HomeCare Services

·        Community Living Services

·        Family & Youth Services

·        Neuro Rehabilitation Services

·        Behavioral Health Services

·        Telecare & Remote Support

·        Pharmacy Services

·        Workforce Services

 

At BrightSpring, we’re putting out the call for everyone from caregivers to nurses to specialists to administrators to business leaders and IT innovators. If you want to be a part of an organization that is shaping the future of American health care, we invite you to take a look at what BrightSpring can offer you…

 

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