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A.  PURPOSE OF POSITION:  \nPeer Support Services are structured and scheduled activities for adults age eighteen (18) and older with a diagnosis of Mental Health and Substance Use disorders. Peer Supports are provided by Peer Support staff. Peer Support Service is an individualized, recovery-focused service that allows individuals the opportunity to learn to manage their own recovery and advocacy process. Interventions of Peer Support staff serve to enhance the development of natural supports, as well as coping and self-management skills. Interventions of Peer Support staff may also provide supportive services to assist an individual in community re-entry following hospitalization.  \nPeer Support Services emphasize personal safety, self-worth, confidence, and growth, connection to the community, boundary setting, planning, self-advocacy, personal fulfillment, and development of social supports, and effective communication skills. Services emphasize the acquisition; development; expansion of rehabilitative skills needed to move forward in recovery. Examples of specific interventions include:  \n• Self Help: Cultivating the individual’s ability to make informed, independent choices. Helping the individual develop a network of contacts for information and support based on experience of the Peer Support staff.  \n• System Advocacy: Assisting the individual to talk about what it means to have a mental illness to an audience or group. Assisting the individual with writing a letter or making a telephone call about an issue related to mental illness or recovery.  \n• Individual Advocacy: Discussing concerns about medication with the Physician or Nurse at the individual’s request. Helping the individual make appointments for psychiatric and general medical treatment when requested. Guiding the individual toward a proactive role in health care.  \n• Pre-Crisis and Post Crisis Support: Assisting the individual with the development of a personal crisis plan, and/or a Psychiatric Advance Directive (PAD) . This includes help in developing the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) . Giving feedback to the individual on early signs of relapse and how to request help to prevent a crisis. Assisting the individual in learning how to use the crisis plan.  \nB.  WORK SCHEDULE: Work schedule will vary per assigned client needs.  \nC.  PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS: Peer Support staff group may not exceed 1:9 . The QP supervising Peer Support staff may not exceed 1:6 full time equivalents QP to Peer Support staff ratio.  \nUnits are billed in fifteen (15) minute increments.  \nPeer Support staff can bill for time developing Psychiatric Advanced Directives as well as Wellness Recovery Action Plans and pre and/or post-crisis plans.  \nII. A. DESCRIPTION OF RESPONSIBLITIES AND DUTIES:  \nThe Bilingual Peer Support Specialist primary responsibilities are to direct, coordinate, and manage the activities of a comprehensive mental health program and to ensure the program operates in full compliance with relevant laws, ensure accuracy of data; compliance with regulation; and identify operational efficiencies catered specifically to the Hispanic community.  \nThe Bilingual Peer Support Specialist will provide service activities to the Hispanic community that include the following interventions:  \n• Education and training of clients and others who have a legitimate role in addressing the needs identified in the Person-Centered Plan  \n• Preventive, and therapeutic interventions designed for direct individual activities  \n• Assist with skill enhancement or acquisition, and support ongoing treatment and functional gains  \n• Develop interpersonal and community relational skills, including adaptation to home, school, work and other natural environments  \n• Therapeutic mentoring and Supportive Counsel","cbCaijpjVb2r9n4R","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijpjVb2r9n4R","pdf",132489,"English","# Position Purpose\n## Peer Support Services Overview\n## Work Schedule\n## Program Requirements and Billing\n# Responsibilities and Duties\n## Comprehensive Mental Health Program Oversight\n## Hispanic Community Interventions\n## Documentation, Translation, and Case Management\n# Work Environment and Conditions\n## Flexible Hours and Settings\n# Training, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities\n## North Carolina Certified Peer Support Requirements","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the Peer Support Specialist position?\",\"answer\":\"Peer support services are structured activities for adults 18+ with mental health and substance use disorders, delivered by peer support staff to enhance recovery self-management and advocacy.\"},{\"question\":\"What interventions must the Bilingual Peer Support Specialist provide?\",\"answer\":\"Interventions include self-help, system and individual advocacy, education and training, symptom monitoring and self-management, therapeutic mentoring/supportive counseling, and pre-/post-crisis supports such as crisis plans and WRAP.\"},{\"question\":\"Are there scheduling and billing requirements for this role?\",\"answer\":\"Work schedule varies by assigned client needs, units are billed in fifteen-minute increments, and peer support staff group staffing ratios are limited (1:9; QP to peer support staff ratio up to 1:6 full-time equivalents).\"}]","Bilingual Peer Support Specialist Job Description - Mental Health and Substance Use | PDF",1789371870]