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Certified Peer Specialist (IPS/CPRS Specialist)
Are you passionate about empowering individuals with mental illness to achieve their employment goals? Do you thrive on providing peer support and advocacy within a dynamic and supportive team environment? If so, we want you on our team! We're seeking a Certified Peer Specialist with a commitment to recovery and a strong understanding of mental health services to join us as an IPS/CPRS Specialist. In this role, you'll play a pivotal role in helping individuals with serious mental illness find competitive and integrated jobs of their choosing, while providing invaluable peer support along the way. As an IPS/CPRS Specialist, you'll be part of a dedicated team that fosters hope, community, and social change. You'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the lives of others by instilling hope, sharing personal experiences, and advocating for increased community opportunities and ADA compliance. If you're ready to be part of a team that values collaboration, compassion, and empowerment, apply now to join us in promoting recovery and resilience in our community!
About The AIM Center Inc.
AIM Center offers employment, education, housing, socialization, and wellness opportunities for adults living with serious mental illness. We are non-medical and non-clinical; however, we work with other mental health professionals to provide comprehensive mental health services. Using the Clubhouse model of psychosocial rehabilitation, AIM Center empowers participants, our members, to develop relationships and create individualized plans for recovery while working side-by-side with other members and staff to accomplish the work of the Clubhouse. AIM Center has been helping adults in the Chattanooga community lead fulfilling and productive lives while successfully managing their mental health since 1989. Membership is open to people ages 18 and older diagnosed with serious mental illness. Recovery is a lifelong process and the philosophy of our Clubhouse is "Once a Member, Always a Member." We are a private, non-profit organization supported through foundations, public and private grants and donations. Our Clubhouse is also a TennCare provider. AIM Center is the only psychosocial rehabilitation facility accredited by Clubhouse International and licensed by the State of Tennessee.
Job Description
Job Title: IPS/CPRS Specialist
Reports To: IPS Director
Supervises: N/A
Job Classification: Full-Time, Non-Exempt
Purpose of Position: The IPS/CPRS Specialist is responsible for providing direct peer-to-peer support and advocacy to individuals receiving services as part of the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) evidence-based program. CPRS will function as a role model demonstrating techniques in recovery and ongoing coping skills. This position offers individual and group support to individuals working towards recovery goals, particularly related to employment.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Provide peer support and advocacy to individuals receiving services.
Assist individuals in understanding and managing changes to benefits based on employment income.
Advocate for the protection of members' rights and services, as well as increased community opportunities and ADA compliance.
Instill hope, demonstrate empathy, and offer community resources.
Provide employment support, facilitate or assist with a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) for work training, and actively participate as a team member to ensure consistent service delivery and shared decision-making.
Interact with consumers in a fashion that is respectful and sensitive to cultural differences
Promote individual choice, self-determination & natural supports
Create a positive and appropriate group environment, ensuring no exclusion of service recipients based on readiness, diagnoses, symptoms, substance use history, psychiatric hospitalizations, level of disability, or legal system involvement.
Discuss goals for employment and education with participants and explore career choices.
Promote a wellness-focused approach to recovery and encouragement for consumers working on vocational goals.
Help people identify different options for money management.
Teach people how to use available transportation.
Engage new participants to the program or participants who have missed appointments.
Help people consider disclosing a disability (other information) to employers and whether to ask for a job accommodation.
Provide engagement & outreach activities to identify & address any obstacles
Assist with educating consumers on problem-solving techniques, negative self-talk, and self-advocacy skills.
Maintain appropriate professional boundaries with consumers & co-workers
Lending their unique insight into mental illness and what makes recovery possible
Identify consumers' strengths, resiliencies & challenges to recovery and work together to develop skills, evaluate options & consider consequences
Strong commitment to principles of recovery and consumers' participation in their own service planning.
Attend all required meetings & training and actively participate in weekly team meetings and abide by HIPAA Requirements and the Mental Health Confidentiality Act.
Record and submit timesheets per established guidelines
Ensure best practices are followed by adhering to agency policies and procedures.
Completes AWARDS detailed entries to document community support activities, and complete required IPS documentation within established timeframes.
Participate in clubhouse activities, embodying the "Clubhouse Philosophy," which includes involvement in Community Meetings, Unit Meetings, Employment Club, Employment Dinners, and Evening/Holiday/Weekend Social programming.
Other Duties as assigned. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive, and the employee will also perform other reasonably related job responsibilities as assigned. This organization reserves the right to revise or change job duties as the need arises.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree required. Related experience in employment services and mental health a plus.
Must be self-identified as a person in recovery.
Must possess or be actively working toward Certified Peer Recovery Specialist (CPRS) status
Adheres to the Certified Peer Specialist Code of Ethics.
Interest/willingness to work with individuals recovering from mental illness.
Willingness and ability to provide transportation to agency consumers as needed.
Must pass required background checks.
Valid driver's license with F endorsement (TN) and 3-year clean driving record. No DUI/DWUI's.
Willingness and ability to provide transportation to agency consumers as needed.
Ability to establish and maintain professional boundaries.
Experience and knowledge of resume development, and online applications
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, highly organized.
Ability to work independently and interact effectively with consumers, employers, staff, and community members as an effective team member.
Salary: $21.54 - $21.54 per hour
Worksite address
chattanooga, TN, 37450, US
Who can apply
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