Overview:
Metropolitan Human Services District (MHSD) serves persons with Mental Health Disorders, Addictive Disorders, and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities in Orleans, Plaquemines, and St. Bernard parishes. We are committed to providing high-quality behavioral health services in our community.
Position Summary:
We are seeking two Certified Peer Support Specialist contractors to serve on the MHSD Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT). MCRT is a community-based, crisis response intended to provide relief, resolution, and intervention to individuals where they are located through mobile crisis support and services during the first phase of a crisis in the community. The MCRT Clinician will report directly to the MCRT Director and the MCRT Contract Fidelity Monitor. This is a full-time contract opportunity.
Responsibilities:
- Conducts crisis intervention and safety planning to assist persons served in overcoming the difficulties that led to crisis.
- Manages ongoing assessment of crisis needs.
- Connects persons served to facility-based care as needed through warm hand-offs.
- Coordinates team-based care to provide health services and community resources to patients and their caregivers/families.
- Delivers peer support services: such as education, advocacy, and to foster engagement in treatment process.
- Supports person-centered interventions as identified in service plans for everyone served.
- Advocates for Persons in Recovery (PIRs), while sharing coping skills and recovery information to assist PIRs in regaining control over their own recovery process.
- Administers assessments to persons served (i.e., GPRA)
- Collects data and collaborates with a team and managers
- Exhibits ability to assess, evaluate and document the level or lack of access to support systems and community resources that will influence treatment planning.
- Maintains one’s own physical, mental, and emotional well-being so that the PSS can function appropriately in the job and can model healthy functioning to those we serve.
- Facilitates group therapy sessions such as:
§ Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)
§ Recovery Support Groups
§ Community Meetings
§ Symptoms and Coping Skills
- Assists individuals with independent living preparation.
- Utilizes personal experience to provide support and guidance to individuals facing mental health challenges
- Performs other tasks as assigned by leadership team, to support individuals’ recovery.
Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or equivalent and one year of experience working with others in mental health recovery
- Associate's degree preferred
- Certified Peer Support Specialist, preferred
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work effectively with individuals from diverse backgrounds and cultures and in a team environment
- Ability to perform basic descriptive analyses, e.g., counts, averages, percentages for utilization, performance, and outcome reports
- Commitment to maintaining the highest ethical standards and confidentiality
- Ability to perform basic descriptive analyses (i.e., counts, averages, percentages, etc.) for utilization, performance, and/or outcome reports
- Performs and disseminates monitoring and performance reports
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: $40,000.00 - $45,000.00 per year
Medical specialties:
Schedule:
Experience:
- Addiction counseling: 1 year (Preferred)
Ability to Relocate:
- New Orleans, LA: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Willingness to travel:
Work Location: On the road