Employment Peer Mentor

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Position Snapshot

Location: Kinston, NC

Schedule: Monday through Friday 8am-5pm with flexibility and travel 

Pay: $19-$21/hr

Work Setting: Hybrid work setting with Community-based travel to meet the needs of the program 

Position Type: Full-time

Make an Impact With Us

Do you want work that makes a meaningful difference in your community? Easterseals PORT Health is seeking an Employment Peer Mentor to join our Employment (IPS) team in Kinston. This position requires travel within these general areas (Kinston, Snow Hill, and Goldsboro). 

Employment Peer Mentor, you’ll play a critical role in carrying out that mission by helping people with mental illness, substance abuse and behavioral health challenges and providing services and expertise that professional training cannot replicate. The Employment Peer Mentor is a fully integrated team member who provides highly individualized services in the community and promotes the self determination and shared decision-making abilities of beneficiaries. 

If you're passionate about making a positive impact and helping people thrive, we'd love to have you on our team. 

Your Role in Our Mission

Provides coaching, mentoring, and consultation to the individual served to promote recovery, self- advocacy, and self-direction.

• Promotes wellness management strategies, which includes delivering manualized interventions (e.g., Wellness Recovery Action Planning or Illness Management and Recovery) and employment services.
• Assists people receiving services in developing psychiatric advance directives.
• Models recovery values, attitudes, beliefs, and personal action to encourage wellness and resilience.
• Provides consultation to team members to assist in understanding of recovery and the role of the Employment Peer Mentor, promoting a culture in which beneficiaries’ points of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected, and integrated into treatment.
• Serves as an active member of the employment team, equivalent to other team members, which includes assisting with the Person Centered Planning process.
• Supports and empowers the individual to exercise his or her legal rights within the community.
• Provides employment services interventions and case coordination as needed.
• Prepares and submits documentation accurately and within prescribed time lines.
• Participates in peer review.
• Successfully participates in the DMH approved IPS training and provide services according to the service definition and IPS Fidelity Model. 

Why Join Us?  

As a part of our mission, we help our team members embrace their potential, build resilience, and thrive! You will benefit from ongoing professional growth and development as you work alongside leaders of clinical excellence in mental health and substance use services that care about your success.

What We’re Looking For  

• A minimum of a High School diploma or equivalent accredited by the appropriate state department of education is required.
• Must be a NC Certified Peer Support Specialist, or willing to be certified within 6 months of hire.
• Must be or have been a recipient of mental health services.
• Must have current, unrestricted, state-appropriate driver’s license and vehicle insurance
• Must have reliable transportation that will allow movement throughout the program delivery area.
• Employment Peer Mentor works as part of a team and while there is daily office based work the bulk of the work is in the community including the street, homes, shelters, jails and hospitals and services are delivered when and where individuals need them. 

Why Join Easterseals PORT Health?

Easterseals PORT Health is a trusted and compassionate organization providing disability, mental health, and substance use services across North Carolina and Virginia. Purpose, dedication, and empathy guide the way we support our neighbors and one another. 

For benefits-eligible positions, our total rewards package may include: 

• Generous paid time off and holidays
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage + FSA
• Life and disability insurance
• 403(b) retirement plan
• Employee Assistance Program and legal services
• Professional development and training opportunities, including AHEC where applicable
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligibility where applicable

About Easterseals PORT Health

Easterseals PORT Health helps people with disabilities, mental health and/or substance use challenges, their families, and our employees embrace their potential, access opportunities, build resilience and thrive. Purpose, dedication, and empathy drive our in-person and telehealth service delivery. 

Our 2,800-member team provides more than 10.2 million hours of meaningful support to 40,200 children, adults, and families in 11,000 home, facility, and community locations across North Carolina and Virginia. 

Easterseals PORT Health is an Inclusive Culture, Different Voices, Embracing Potential, Authentic Self, and Learning and Growing. 

Applicants of all abilities are encouraged to apply! Need assistance with the application process or an accommodation? Contact recruiter@eastersealsPORT.com. 

Learn More About the Program

https://eastersealsport.com/individual-and-community-services/