Peer Specialist

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Peer Specialist

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team - Behavioral Health Services

Hourly Pay Range: $19.29 - $27.96

Bilingual candidates are encouraged to apply

Closing Date: 3/14/2025 or upon receipt of the first 50 applications

Job Summary: This role is responsible for providing peer specialist services to individuals served by the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team. Peer Specialists effectively provide guidance, coaching, and support to consumers and the professionals serving them based on their own lived experience with mental illness and substance abuse.

Job Duties:

• Provide expertise about the recovery process, symptom management, and the persistence required by consumers to have a satisfying life. Collaborate to promote a team culture that recognizes, understands, and respects each consumer's point of view.
• Responsible to help maximize consumer choice, self-determination and decision-making in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of treatment, rehabilitation, and support services.
• Provide peer counseling and consultation to individual consumers, families, and other natural supports, using their own lived experience and recovery path as a means to be in a helpful role to others.
• Act as a liaison with community resources, carry out rehabilitative and support functions, and assist in treatment, education, support, and consultation to consumers and their natural supports under the clinical supervision of credentialed staff.
• Complete clinically sound and timely documentation of all services rendered on behalf of consumers served by the ACT team in the Electronic Medical Record. Maintain a productivity level of 75% or greater.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements:

• Current Wisconsin resident.
• Valid Wisconsin driver's license, able to be maintained throughout employment.
• High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
• Intermediate knowledge of all related computer and software applications, such as word processing and spreadsheets.
• Licensed as a Certified Peer Specialist in the State of Wisconsin.
• At least one (1) year of experience providing peer specialist services to individuals with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI).
• Must be a current or former recipient of mental health services for mental illness, should have self-knowledge and self-awareness of their own mental health diagnosis/illness and how to effectively live independently and function well in the community.

• Willing to travel within the community up to 75% of work time.

NOTE: This ORIGINAL APPLICATION is open to qualified residents of the State of Wisconsin at the time of application. Candidates need to submit a full account of their training and experience (i.e., by submitting an up-to-date resume or by fully completing the application) during the application process and may also be asked to take additional written or performance tests as part of the selection process.

APPLICANTS MUST POSSESS MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AT TIME OF FILING APPLICATION

Milwaukee County is committed to fostering an equitable working environment, free from discrimination and harassment, on the basis of any characteristic protected by law. We prohibit any form of discrimination, harassment based on race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, pregnancy related condition, national origin, age, disability, FMLA status, sexual orientation, military status, marital status, or any other category or status that is now or in the future protected by federal, state, and local law. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing, background checks and pre-employment physicals subject to job requirements. If special accommodations are needed, please contact 414-278-3936.

• Milwaukee, WI, USA