Peer Support Specialist - Psychiatry - Ft/Pt

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Job Requisition ID:

R00024880

Job Category:

Allied Health

Organization:

SOM-Psychiatry-Addiction Research

Location/s:

Main Campus Jackson

Job Title:

Peer Support Specialist

• Psychiatry

• FT/PT

Job Summary:

The Peer Support Specialists will provide night-time on-call service to community emergency departments and daytime face-to-face and technology-mediated patient care in coordination with the project's clinical team.

Education & Experience

High school diploma/GED, and a Peer Support Specialist Certification preferred.

Certifications, Licenses or Registration required: N/A

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

A Peer Support Specialist should have lived experience with mental health and/or substance use challenges and be in stable recovery (> 1 yr minimum) in management of those challenges. Must be ready, willing, and able to provide non-clinical, strengths-based support to others seeking their own, individualized, person-centered recovery.

Responsibilities

• Provide night-time on-call crisis support

• Provide daytime face-to-face crisis support

• Act as liaison between the patient and the clinical staff

• Provide outreach and educate on Medication-Assisted Treatment

• Facilitate Peer Support Groups

• The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive.

Physical and Environmental Demands

Requires occasional bending, occasional lifting and carrying up to 25 pounds, occasional crouching/stooping, occasional driving, occasional kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling, occasional reaching, frequent sitting, frequent standing, frequent twisting, and frequent walking. (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more)

Time Type:

FLSA Designation/Job Exempt:

No

Pay Class:

Hourly

FTE %:

100

Work Shift:

Benefits Eligibility:

Job Posting Date:

12/1/2023

Job Closing Date (open until filled if no date specified):