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Peer Specialist

CASES

Description

The Transitional Case Management peer specialist provides community case management, assessment, peer counseling, rehabilitation and self-help skills training to promote participant linkage to community treatment, rehabilitation, and needed services. The peer specialist provides services in the community within the framework of core TCM operating principles.

Responsibilities:

•Provide case management services to caseload of TCM participants
•Assess participant immediate needs, legal circumstances, and engagement needs to develop service plans and deliver needed community case management services
•Assist participants in identifying treatment and life goals (housing, family, entitlement, vocational, social, cultural and recreational)
•Provide case management services to link participants to entitlements
•Act as advocate and liaison for participants in securing housing, entitlements, treatment, medical care and other community services and supports
•Provide individual supportive peer counseling as needed
•Provide at least 80 percent of service contacts in the community
•Meet required levels of case management contacts
•Respond to crisis situations as needed
•Involve family, significant others, and treatment providers in service provision
•Complete assessments, progress notes, and significant data
•Provide culturally competent services in accordance with CASES policies and practice
•Link participants to treatment, self-help, and community resources
•Teach participants about their rights and instill hope in participants
•Attend and prepare for supervision sessions
•Provide case management services within harm reduction framework using motivational interviewing techniques
•Develop strategic alliances with community providers
•Conduct outreach to community providers, families and significant others to gather collateral information for service planning.
•Address recidivism risk factors through targeted case management and counseling
•Any other duties as required by the social work supervisor and project coordinator

Qualifications

The Peer Specialist must be a mental health consumer with a history of involvement in the criminal justice system. As an individual in recovery from mental illness and substance abuse the peer must be willing to utilize his/her recovery experience to engage and support alternatives to incarceration participants. The candidate should have a strong knowledge of wellness, recovery and self-help processes. Effective communication and written skills are essential together with computer skills. Bilingual skills in Spanish preferred.

Salary

Commensurate with experience

Contact

Send cover letter and resume with salary history and requirements to [email protected]. Please list the title of the position you are applying for in the subject line. No phone calls please. Only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.

CASES is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment with CASES is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position, without regard to race, color, ethnic or national origin, age, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital, military, or citizenship status. We also actively recruit individuals with prior involvement in the criminal justice system

Posted on 07/28/11; CVMHA ID #6175