Job Type: Full-Time / Part-Time
About Us:
Standards-Based Solutions is a behavioral health organization committed to supporting individuals with mental health, substance use, and developmental needs. We believe in empowering people to reach their highest potential through compassion, teamwork, and recovery-oriented services.
Position Summary:
Job Summary
The Certified Peer Specialist plays a vital role in supporting individuals with mental health and substance use challenges. This position involves leveraging personal experience to foster hope, resilience, and recovery among clients. The Certified Peer Specialist will work collaboratively with healthcare teams to provide guidance, mentorship, and advocacy, helping clients navigate their recovery journey effectively.
Responsibilities
Job Description: Provides highly individualized services in the community and promotes individual self-determination and decision-making to individuals with Mental Health or Substance Abuse issues. Certified Peer Support Specialists also provide essential expertise and consultation to the entire team to promote a culture in which each individual’s point of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected and integrated into treatment, rehabilitation, and community self-help activities.
Job Title: Certified Peer Support Specialist
Responsible To: Peer Support Supervisor
Main Function: CPSS provides structured, scheduled services that promote recovery, self-determination, self-advocacy, engagement in self-care and wellness and enhancement of community living skills of the members served.
Qualifications:
Required:
What We're Looking For:
High school diploma or equivalent {Required}
Certification from North Carolina Certified Peer Support Specialist Program { Required}
Excellent communication skills
Valid Driver's license and Car insurance
Employment Peer Mentor (EPM): EPMs offer hope and motivation by drawing from their lived experience and their own employment experiences to encourage other individuals to seek and maintain employment, wellness, and community integration. Employment Peer Mentors do not hold their own caseloads and do not function as an extension of ESPs or as case managers. They support any and all individuals enrolled in the service through the provision of wellness interventions, promoting self-determination, and helping individuals advocate for themselves.
Standards-Based Solutions, LLC is seeking Certified Peer Support Specialist in the following areas:
To be considered for employment, all candidates must continue to our Career Center through ADP by using the link below to complete the application process and upload a current resume. The resume must provide your level of education and detail work experience, including: Employer Name (dates of service, average number of hours worked per week, essential duties of the job as related to the position you are applying for), Education (degree type, date degree was awarded, institution), Licensure/Certification (if applicable). We cannot accept resumes through Handshake.
To be considered for employment, all candidates must continue to our Career Center through ADP by using the link below to complete the application process and upload a current resume. The resume must provide your level of education and detail work experience, including: Employer Name (dates of service, average number of hours worked per week, essential duties of the job as related to the position you are applying for), Education (degree type, date degree was awarded, institution), Licensure/Certification (if applicable). We cannot accept resumes through Handshake.