Peer Support Specialist

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •0-2 years of experience in the field
• •Lived personal experience with recovery
• •One year of office volunteer or work experience required
• •Completion of Peer/Recovery Support Specialist Certification, required
• •GED/High School Diploma
• •A comparable combination of education/experience and/or training will be considered equivalent to the education listed above
• •Ability to act professionally and maintains appropriate boundaries with clients and staff
• •Ability to report as scheduled to work, meetings, training, and job-related activities prepared
• •Ability to consistently demonstrate compassion and meet people with compassion
• •Ownership, which drives the company's success
• •Maintains an open and accepting mindset by being an active learner, participating in discussions with others, trying new approaches and ideas, and being self-aware and self-reflective for continual personal, professional and leadership growth
• •Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• •Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
• •Ability to hear and speak
• •Employees must maintain a stable and secure private home internet with a minimum of 50Mbps download and 5Mbps upload, and an average jitter less than 20% of latency

Desired Qualifications

• •Knowledge of principles of recovery
• •Arizona system principles
• •Exceptional interpersonal skills
• •Accountable to individuals served
• •Empathetic
• •Good verbal communication skills
• •Ability to identify a crisis call and follow policies and procedures for connecting crisis callers to the crisis line
• •Operates within the scope of work for a behavioral health call center
• •demonstrates effort toward company-wide and call center initiatives