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Northern Tier Counseling, Inc. Mental Health Support Worker in Towanda, Pennsylvania
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Description: The Certified Peer Support Specialist is responsible for providing mentoring, guidance and support services to others who share 1-similar lived experiences. What will I do?
- Assists consumers with setting and attaining personal recovery goals, provides support resources, information and assist family/support systems.
- Work with agency staff to identify community supports and help consumers understand how to utilize these resources in the recovery process.
- Models coping techniques, self-help strategies and reinforces potential for recovery to consumers.
- Advocates on the consumer's behalf to the psychiatrist/psychologist/nurse/therapist by disclosing information related to consumer's health/treatment.
- Complete all required documentation for every consumer encounter utilizing NTC's Electronic Health Record (E.H.R) during tenure of employment.
- Develop and implement individual and group interventions.
- Attend required trainings, in-services, staff meetings and peer support coaching sessions and meetings. Participates in required supervisory meetings; access to Clinical Director on a regular basis.
Requirements: What will I need?
- In their own words, of how they achieved and maintained recovery and wellness.
- Attest that they have a mental health diagnosis and have reached a place in their recovery pathway where they can positively support others in a similar situation.
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