Peer Support Specialist - 49170

Job title: Peer Support Specialist (49170)

Starting Pay rate: $21.47

Possible Start date: asap

Hours/Shift: Schedule varies, will include days, evenings and weekends

Length of assignment: Contract: ongoing

Provide recovery-based peer support services and outreach to peers who are experiencing difficulties transitioning from hospitals to the community or who are experiencing difficulties that might lead to hospitalization.

Experience as a consumer of mental health or substance abuse services.

The hiring manager for this role is interested only in registered peer recovery specialists!

· Any combination of education (above the high school level) and/or experience equivalent to 3 years of knowledge of human services, mental health, or substance abuse, including self-knowledge and participation in self-help activities, peer support or peer advocacy programs, consumer-run organizations, or similar programs, including paid or volunteer experience with adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses.

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