Peer Specialist
Unwavering Commitment! We care looking for you on our team.
As a Peer Support Specialist, you'll provide recovery-focused services to youth and families in MHMRTC programs, adhering to TAC requirements. Drawing from your personal recovery experience, you'll offer support in recovery planning, mentoring, crisis assistance, and rights advocacy through individual and group settings. Your role involves modeling effective coping techniques, self-help strategies, and efficient use of community resources. You'll develop and lead educational, and support groups tailored to individual needs, working with youth and families in outpatient clinics and community settings. By sharing your expertise and lived experience, you'll foster positive relationships and support recovery and wellness in our community, making a significant impact on the lives of children, youth, and families.
Minimum qualifications: High School Diploma/GED
Preferences: Prior completion of Peer Specialist orientation, self-assessment, core training and knowledge assessment with passing score; Spanish-speaking.
Experience: One (1) year in Self-reported active recovery and receipt of community mental health services for a disorder that is treated in the target population for Texas with onset during adolescent years
License/Certifications: Certification as a Certified Peer Specialist completed upon hire
Why join us: MHMR has proudly served Tarrant and adjacent county residents for over 50 years. As the second largest mental health community center in Texas, we are dedicated to serving adults and children living with mental illness, substance use disorder and intellectual and developmental disabilities and delays and empowering them to improve their lives through an accessible, integrated, comprehensive person-centered system of care. MHMR is a mission-driven organization that fosters a culture of caring for employees and the people we serve. Our mission statement is We Change Lives.
WeCARE:
WeConnectPeople in Our Community
We ProvideAccessto Services
We Link People toResources
WeEmpowerPeople
Our values are based on the following beliefs:
Respect for people who are active in planning their services
Recovery is a life-long process of better health
Success as positive outcomes for each person
Participation of people and their families in the process
Inclusion in the community through services that promote growth and independence
Safe, ethical, and cost-effective services
Best practices in current research in medical, psychosocial and organizational fields
Collaboration with other organizations for better services
Benefits: MHMR offers an excellent benefits package that includes a retirement plan with company matching, generous PTO accrual, ten paid holidays, employee assistance programs, wellness programs, and more. MHMR is a participant in the Student Loan Forgiveness Program. We work diligently to provide excellent benefits to employees and their eligible dependents.
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