Part-time Certified Peer Specialist - COMCARE

Job description

Department: COMCARE Job ID: 12810: Pay: $18.54 per hour: Work Schedule: Monday-Saturday, 19 hours per week, between 7:00am-7:00pm, varied schedule, Sedgwick County offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees that includes health coverages, paid leave, regular compensation reviews, retirement plans, and professional development opportunities. For more detailed information, please visit our benefits page at SCBenefits . Provide goal-directed, medically necessary peer support services to adults with severe and persistent mental illness to assist them to remain in the least restrictive environment. Service Provision Case Management Services: - Peer Support using identified and accepted methods to remediate symptoms of mental illness and/or improve emotional and functional well-being. - Help consumers regain the ability to make independent choices and to take a proactive role in treatment. - Share “lived experience” and model successful behavior and strategies. - Provide transportation in personal passenger vehicle to support patient attendance in medical appointments and other therapeutic goal-related activities to include development of community resources, employm...