**$500 SIGN ON BONUS**
Who we are: Thrive Behavioral Network! If you want to join an AMAZING Behavioral Healthcare Team, whether just starting out or have been a professional in the field for decades check us out and keep reading!
The People:
We have built amazing teams of healthcare workers who are compassionate, out-of-the-box thinkers, who come to work everyday to knowing that their job will throw them in a few different directions and they like that! We employ people who genuinely like other people, and who embrace differences. You will soon find yourself immersed in a strong team atmosphere where support is in abundance.
Responsibilities:
A mental health certified peer specialist under the treatment supervision of a mental health professional or certified rehabilitation specialist must provide individualized peer support to each client, promote a client's recovery goals, self-sufficiency, self-advocacy, and development of natural supports, and support a client's maintenance of skills that the client has learned from other services. The ability to share personal recovery experiences and to develop authentic peer-to-peer relationships is essential to effective CPS performance. Consequently, CPS must hold the following beliefs and demonstrate the following qualities:
- A personal belief in recovery.
- A genuine hope and optimism that their peers will succeed.
- A sincere interest in the welfare of their peers, including the ability to see each person as a unique individual.
- A willingness to share their own recovery experience.
- An ability to flexibly engage people based on their level of receptivity and individual needs, acknowledging that even the same person may need different types of peer-based services at different points in their recovery process.
Qualifications:
- Must be or have been a consumer of behavioral health services.
- Must be certified as a Peer Specialist by Department of Human Services.
- A Mental Health Certified Peer Specialist must be at least 18 years old and qualify as stated in 245I.04 Subdv.10(1-3).
