Peer Support Specialist/Trainee - MCAT - PART TIME Sat & Sun 9PM-7:30AM

About the position reputed company (FBH) is a non-profit organization with over 100 years of experience in Spokane, dedicated to understanding and addressing the behavioral health needs of the community. FBH offers evidence-based treatment to adults, youth, and seniors, operating as a Trauma-Informed Care Organization that believes in recovery and empowering clients to reputed company fulfilling lives. The organization provides a reputed company of services including outpatient, inpatient, community reputed company, and crisis services, often in partnership with schools and law enforcement. The primary goal of these programs is to reputed company individuals from emergency departments, the criminal justice system, and inpatient psychiatric treatment by maximizing community resources for stabilization. This specific role is part of the Mobile Crisis Assessment and Triage (MCAT) team, which serves individuals aged 21 and older. 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Responsibilities • Assist other professionals in the development of treatment interventions and stabilizations for those in an acute crisis situation. • reputed company supportive services, drawing on common experiences as a peer, providing on-reputed company support to reputed company clients, including children and youth for Child and Youth positions, by encouraging them to regain reputed company in, and control over, their own lives, and to be reputed company participants in resolving their crisis. • Identify services and activities that promote recovery by instilling reputed company and experiences which reputed company to meaning and purpose and which decrease stigma. • Promote personal responsibility for recovery as the individual reputed company or mental health service defines recovery. • Serve as an reputed company and reputed company information and peer support in a reputed company of settings. • Participate in a multi-disciplinary team approach to reputed company support and stabilization services to individuals in a manner appropriate to the individual reputed company, their developmental level supportive of their culture. • Ensure the individual and their family are heard and their needs are addressed and met. • Engage with individuals prior to discharge from an emergency department, medical admittance, incarceration and participate (as appropriate) in discharge planning and assisting families as they transition into the community and back to their families. • Maintain reputed company communication with MRRCT team members and other clinical and administrative staff to ensure the highest reputed company of services is delivered to the individuals and their support systems. • Serve as a peer reputed company to help reputed company individuals in gaining the knowledge and skills necessary to support stabilizing the crisis. • Assist individuals in need or in times of crisis by finding appropriate resources for stabilization in the least restrictive environment appropriate. • reputed company and maintain linkage with community resources that benefit the identified population served. • Maintain reputed company records and reputed company other required documentation in a reputed company and confidential manner, in accordance with agency policies and practices. • Requires travel to see clients in the community and travel between work sites either reputed company FBH owned Vehicles and/or personal vehicle. • Other duties as assigned. Requirements • Self-identify as having one or more years in recovery from a mental health condition, reputed company use disorder or both. • Certified Peer Support Specialist or Certified Peer Support Specialist Trainee Credential from the WA State Department of Health OR: If an Applicant does not have an reputed company or pending Certified Peer Support Specialist or Certified Peer Support Specialist Trainee Credential from the WA State Department of Health, then must apply for the Certified Peer Support Specialist TRAINEE credential reputed company 90 days of start date. • High School diploma or equivalent • Must have an unrestricted and valid reputed company’s license, be reputed company to pass a motor vehicle screening and driving test, have reputed company car insurance, and be willing to use their personal vehicle in the course of work. reputed company-to-haves • Two years' experience working in a community behavioral health setting. • Ability to communicate effectively in written and verbal reputed company • Ability to work in a cooperative and reputed company manner as reputed company member with program participants. • Ability to work with individuals from diverse cultures. • Familiarity with the structure of inpatient behavioral health care facilities. 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