Peer Support Specialist- Adult Behavioral Health (Kalispell, MT)

Join Aware as a Peer Support Specialist- Adult Behavioral Health (Kalispell, MT) in Kalispell, Montana. If you are passionate about providing high-quality care to individuals in your community, we invite you to join our team at AWARE. AWARE is looking for the right person to join the team as a residential peer support specialist.

Key Responsibilities

• Identifies individual needs through in-person contact with individuals, families, guardians, and significant others.

• Records notes, billing, assessments, referrals, and other data entry assignments via AWARE’s Electronic Healthcare.

• Record System and ICP requirement, Therapy Program, Plan of Care - - being sensitive to age, gender, disability, sexual orientation/identity, racial, bi-sexual, transgendered, and ethnic differences of individual served.

• Recognizes and utilizes AWARE’s Core Values, Unconditional Care Philosophy, and wrap around philosophy focused on family engagement.

Requirements

• Talents, skills, and abilities: It is preferable that the individual’s lived experience of mental health challenges includes experience with psychosis during his or her youth.

• However, personal experience with psychosis is not required.

• Ideally the Peer Specialist is a young adult; however, a Peer Specialist of any age may be considered for the position, if he or she relates well to young people.

• As much as possible, the Peer Specialist should understand the community in which the team is based with an awareness of available community resources.

Benefits & Compensation

• Pay rate: $19.75 to $21.92 per hour.

Work Schedule

• Full-Time position.

Work with Aware in Kalispell, Montana.