Overview:
Schedule: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm
Salary: $52,620 / year
The ACCS Lead Peer Specialist provides leadership to team members with lived experience in order to promote the functioning and full integration of adults receiving psychiatric rehabilitation services into their communities. As an ACCS Lead Peer Specialist you ensure that each Persons Served will receive relevant and well suited services that they need by acting a liaison between team Peer Specialists and other clinical team members. In this role you will also provide leadership through new staff orientation, training and supervision to ensure that quality of services is maintained.

In this role you will draw upon your own personal experiences with recovery in order to successfully build skills needed for independency. Responsibilities will include:

• Join with Team LPHA Clinicians to initiate and conduct intake process for all referred Persons Served. Focus on welcoming, orienting and engaging PS to support his/her understanding of services and support available. Build a trusting relationship to promote the PS interest and active involvement in ACCS. When needed, work with PS on readiness for goal setting using established protocols. Help person complete 8 Dimensions of Wellness Assessment and Power Statement at intake.Share personal experiences; provide support, education and advocacy to PS; especially at times of service and life transitions; for example being discharged from a hospital, detoxification unit or respite setting, moving to their own apartment, or when facing life stage challenges
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• particularly for young adults and elders.

• Introduce and provide “warm hand off” for PS to other Team Peer Specialists for future work together.
• Maintain close contact with PS who struggle with initial or sustained engagement in ACCS.Provide support, education and advocacy to PS, especially at times of service and life transitions; for example being discharged from a hospital, detoxification unit or respite setting, moving to their own apartment, or when facing life stage challenges
• 
  
• particularly for young adults and elders.

Keywords: Peer Specialist, PeerSpecialist, CPS, advocacy, PeerSupport, VinfenPS
Qualifications:
The ACCS Lead Peer Specialist promotes the engagement, hope and the full integration and functioning of Persons Served (PS) needed to live successfully in the community. Welcomes, orients and engages PS into service, collaborates with LPHA to determine needed services. Helps PS explore their options and gain the confidence, skills, and resources needed to succeed in goals. Provides peer orientation, training and supervision to Team’s Peer Specialists.
The ACCS Lead Peer Specialist provides leadership to team members with lived experience in order to promote the functioning and full integration of adults receiving psychiatric rehabilitation services into their communities. As an ACCS Lead Peer Specialist you ensure that each Persons Served will receive relevant and well suited services that they need by acting a liaison between team Peer Specialists and other clinical team members. In this role you will also provide leadership through new staff orientation, training and supervision to ensure that quality of services is maintained.

In this role you will draw upon your own personal experiences with recovery in order to successfully build skills needed for independency. Responsibilities will include:

• Join with Team LPHA Clinicians to initiate and conduct intake process for all referred Persons Served. Focus on welcoming, orienting and engaging PS to support his/her understanding of services and support available. Build a trusting relationship to promote the PS interest and active involvement in ACCS. When needed, work with PS on readiness for goal setting using established protocols. Help person complete 8 Dimensions of Wellness Assessment and Power Statement at intake.Share personal experiences; provide support, education and advocacy to PS; especially at times of service and life transitions; for example being discharged from a hospital, detoxification unit or respite setting, moving to their own apartment, or when facing life stage challenges
• 
  
• particularly for young adults and elders.

• Introduce and provide “warm hand off” for PS to other Team Peer Specialists for future work together.
• Maintain close contact with PS who struggle with initial or sustained engagement in ACCS.Provide support, education and advocacy to PS, especially at times of service and life transitions; for example being discharged from a hospital, detoxification unit or respite setting, moving to their own apartment, or when facing life stage challenges
• 
  
• particularly for young adults and elders.

In this role you will draw upon your own personal experiences with recovery in order to successfully build skills needed for independency. Responsibilities will include:

• Join with Team LPHA Clinicians to initiate and conduct intake process for all referred Persons Served. Focus on welcoming, orienting and engaging PS to support his/her understanding of services and support available. Build a trusting relationship to promote the PS interest and active involvement in ACCS. When needed, work with PS on readiness for goal setting using established protocols. Help person complete 8 Dimensions of Wellness Assessment and Power Statement at intake.Share personal experiences; provide support, education and advocacy to PS; especially at times of service and life transitions; for example being discharged from a hospital, detoxification unit or respite setting, moving to their own apartment, or when facing life stage challenges
• 
  
• particularly for young adults and elders.

• Introduce and provide “warm hand off” for PS to other Team Peer Specialists for future work together.
• Maintain close contact with PS who struggle with initial or sustained engagement in ACCS.Provide support, education and advocacy to PS, especially at times of service and life transitions; for example being discharged from a hospital, detoxification unit or respite setting, moving to their own apartment, or when facing life stage challenges
• 
  
• particularly for young adults and elders

In this role you will draw upon your own personal experiences with recovery in order to successfully build skills needed for independency. Responsibilities will include:

• Join with Team LPHA Clinicians to initiate and conduct intake process for all referred Persons Served. Focus on welcoming, orienting and engaging PS to support his/her understanding of services and support available. Build a trusting relationship to promote the PS interest and active involvement in ACCS. When needed, work with PS on readiness for goal setting using established protocols. Help person complete 8 Dimensions of Wellness Assessment and Power Statement at intake.Share personal experiences; provide support, education and advocacy to PS; especially at times of service and life transitions; for example being discharged from a hospital, detoxification unit or respite setting, moving to their own apartment, or when facing life stage challenges
• 
  
• particularly for young adults and elders.

• Introduce and provide “warm hand off” for PS to other Team Peer Specialists for future work together.
• Maintain close contact with PS who struggle with initial or sustained engagement in ACCS.Provide support, education and advocacy to PS, especially at times of service and life transitions; for example being discharged from a hospital, detoxification unit or respite setting, moving to their own apartment, or when facing life stage challenges
• 
  
• particularly for young adults and elders