Peer Support Specialist, Behavioral Health

Job description

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Peer Support Specialists function as role models to peers, exhibiting competency in personal recovery and use of coping skills to serve as a consumer advocate and provide consumer information and peer support to help clients move out of shelter and into housing. Responsibilities include: - Perform a wide range of tasks to help clients regain independence within the community, regain mastery over their own recovery process, and move out of shelter into permanent housing. - Engage and build relationships and rapport with shelter guests, engaging them in Behavioral Health services. - Coordinate, plan, and conduct Behavioral Health education classes, groups and events. - Assist clients in applying for and obtaining vital documents—including social security cards, IDs, and birth certificates. - Assist clients in completing various housing and housing-related applications, including BHA applications. - Bring MATCH-enrolled clients on apartment viewings and lease signings as needed. - Transport clients to related appointments, including medical, psychiatric, BHA, RMV, social security office, job fairs, furniture bank , etc. - Assist clients obtaining any docum...