Peer Specialist - Competency/STS bei SummitStone Health Partners

• Salary Range: $21.50 - $25.80 per hour, based on relevant years of experience
• Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
• Status: Full time, 40 hours per week
• Hours: Monday – Friday 8PM- 5PM

Role Overview:

As a Peer Specialist we will use your life experience from your personal journey of recovery of addiction and/or mental health challenges to engage, advocate, and link SummitStone Health Partners clients to formal or informal treatment activities, services, and/or supports. A Peer Specialist cultivates mutual, supportive relationships with clients as they navigate through systems. This looks like highlighting strengths, sitting in discomfort, and walking side-by-side with clients as they move toward goals of their choosing.

Note: Competency Support Services is an innovative approach to working with individuals involved in the competency process. Specialized Treatment Services (STS) works with clients with serious and persistent mental illness who typically have co-occurring diagnoses and are often involved in the criminal justice system.

Essential Duties: 

• Providing direct client care through individual and group sessions face to face, phone or telehealth contact.
• Services will be community based and centered around client's recovery goals.
• Ability to maintain accurate and timely documentation in medical health records and have knowledge of MS Windows and MS Office applications.
• Knowledge of diversity and inclusion with the relevant ability to engage, communicate, interact, and work effectively and cooperatively with people of different backgrounds, identities, and culturally diverse communities. 

Required:

• High school diploma, completion of G.E.D. 
• Lived experience with mental health and/or substance use with 2+ years of sustained recovery required.
• Candidates must not be on probation or parole and must have remained free of any new criminal charges for a minimum of two full years.

Licenses and Certifications:

• Valid Colorado driver’s license or ability to obtain within 30 days of hire and a clean driving record required.
• CPR and First Aid certification required at certain locations.
• Must complete training in SAHMSA Peer Core Competencies and COPA code of ethics prior to meeting with clients. (Training is included during the onboarding process).
• Must obtain Colorado Peer Certification (CPFS) through COPA (Colorado Practitioners Association) within 1 year of employment. All trainings, experience hours, and payment for this certification are provided in-house.

Highly Desired:

At SummitStone Health Partners, we strive to foster trust, empower recovery, and inspire hope to strengthen and enrich our Northern Colorado community. 

We need your help to make this vision a reality.  

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can be their authentic self. We actively seek team members with a variety of backgrounds, identities, and experiences, and we honor the whole self—embracing differences in race, ethnicity, ability, age, gender, sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, socioeconomic status, language, and the many intersections of identity. We invite everyone to be part of our journey and proudly serve as an equal opportunity employer.

Please visit summitstone.org for more information about who we are. 

Total Rewards

At SummitStone Health Partners, we are proud to offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support the well-being of our team members. Eligibility and pro-rated benefit levels are based on FTE (full-time equivalent) status.

Below are some of the benefits we offer:

• Paid time off (PTO) vacation and sick leave accruals
  
• A range of voluntary benefits available to all employees
• 403(b) retirement plan with employer matching contributions

Reach Out 

SummitStone will provide persons with disabilities with reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or selection process, please let your recruiter know. 

Questions?  Please email us at [email protected]. 

This position will be open for a minimum of three days and/or until a top candidate is identified.

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