Founded in 1986, Folk-Time, Inc. connects people with the shared experience of living with mental health and substance abuse challenges through peer support and community based activities. The agency focuses on wellness and recovery.
Job Title: Clackamas MHC Peer Support Specialist
JOB SITE: Clackamas Mental Health Center (CMHC) in Clackamas County
REPORTS TO: Shannon Farr
WORK HOURS: 1.0 FTE or 40 hours/week
POSITION SUMMARY: The focus of the Peer Support Specialist position is to facilitate the development of recovery skills. The Peer Support Specialist provides opportunities for individuals to direct their own recovery process and support the learning and utilization of skills needed to foster recovery. The Peer Support Specialist will be knowledgeable of available service options, will promote the utilization of natural support systems, will facilitate the development of a sense of wellness and self-worth, and will work with a treatment team to promote the goals of the person in services. This position will work with multiple teams out of Clackamas MHC supporting people who are experiencing mental health distress.
MAJOR DUTIES:
- Act as a role model to persons in recovery to inspire hope and share life experiences as appropriate to the recovery process.
- Identify recovering person’s abilities, strengths and assets and assist them to recognize and use them.
- Identify barriers to full participation and focus on strategies to overcome them.
- Assist individuals in learning to recognize early triggers and signs of relapse and use their individual coping strategies as an alternative to more structured services.
- Co-facilitate meetings with teams of people in recovery to create a peer support and accountability culture.
- Work successfully and collaboratively with professional staff while promoting the value added work of peer mentoring and client self-determination in the mental health services model. Actively participate in team meetings and promote a recovery perspective as a key component of all discussions.
- Support individuals transitioning through the criminal justice system or who are at risk of becoming involved with the criminal justice system
- Address gender specific trauma and/or life stressors that are impacting individuals in their recovery
- Encourage people to engage in community support programs, 12-step programs, and the life enrichment activities
- Complete all required documentation in a timely manner.
- Ability to work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Be able to develop trusting relationships with peers and staff.
- Be comfortable working with individuals actively experiencing big feelings.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Competent with computers for word processing, internet, email and social media or able to learn these skills.
- Complete a 40-hour Oregon approved peer support training
- Must meet the Oregon Administrative Rules definition of a peer: “any individual who has similar life experience, either as a current or former recipient of addictions or mental health services, or as a family member of an individual who is a current or former recipient of addictions or mental health services.”
- 1+ year experience as a peer support specialist or 1+ year experience working/volunteering in a helping profession
- Must be able to pass a criminal background check and drug screening
- Ability to report to work reliably and in a timely fashion.
- Ability to drive, have a car and ability use your personal vehicle for work related purposes. We do reimburse at $0.585/mile
- Members of BIPOC and LGBTQ communities are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Experience working with adults with mental health challenges and addictions recovery.
- Lived experience and understanding of the unique difficulties of those who are transient or experiencing homelessness
- Completion of Intentional Peer Support Training.
- S. Military veteran.
- Bachelors or advanced degree.
- “Please explain how you would draw on your own experiences, both personal and professional, in order to support others who are experiencing mental health distress.”
Job Title: Hilltop Clinic Peer Support Specialist
JOB SITE: Hilltop Behavioral Health Center
REPORTS TO: Stewart/Hilltop Supervisor
WORK HOURS: .8FTE or 32 hours/week
PROGRAM: Clinical Programs
POSITION SUMMARY: This position works collaboratively with Clackamas County Behavioral Health’s Adult Team at Hilltop using a trauma-informed, holistic recovery model to support individuals with significant mental health challenges. The Peer Support Specialist at Hilltop provides opportunities for individuals receiving services to direct their own recovery journey; supports the recognition and use of individual strengths necessary to self-empowerment and recovery; supports the development of a sense of wellness, self-compassion and self-worth; promotes the development of natural support systems outside the clinic setting. The Peer Support Specialist at Hilltop creates relationships of hope and co-learning with both individuals receiving services and service providers by drawing on their own lived experience with mental health issues and their professional training.
MAJOR DUTIES:
- Inspire hope for persons in recovery through sharing life experiences as appropriate to the recovery process.
- Support individuals in recognizing their own unique strengths, abilities and assets, then using them to foster recovery.
- Support individuals in recognizing triggers and using their own unique ways to manage distress as an alternative to seeking structured services.
- Facilitate weekly groups with peers to create a culture of peer support, recovery and accountability.
- Work collaboratively and successfully with staff within the mental health services model while promoting peer support. Actively participate in team meetings and in all discussions with staff to promote recovery from a peer perspective.
- Encourage peers to engage in support programs and life-enrichment activities in the community to build a natural support network outside the clinic setting.
- Must be comfortable working with individuals actively experiencing symptoms of mental distress and challenges with addiction(s).
- Must meet the Oregon Administrative Rules definition of a peer: “any individual who has similar life experience, either as a current or former recipient of addictions or mental health services, or as a family member of an individual who is a current or former recipient of addictions or mental health services.”
- Be able to develop trusting relationships with both peers and clinic staff.
- Must have an understanding of the unique needs and struggles of individuals simultaneously experiencing mental and physical health distress.
- Ability to work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Competent with computers for daily record charting, appointment scheduling, emailing, and internet use or able to learn these things.
- Ability to complete all required documentation on time.
- Must be able to endorse a trauma informed care and harm reduction models of support.
- Complete a 40-hour Oregon approved peer support training
- Experience receiving support for mental health and addition challenges
- 1+ year experience as a peer support specialist or 1+ year experience working/volunteering in a helping profession
- Must be able to pass a criminal background check and drug screening
- Must not have received behavioral health services through Clackamas County Behavioral Health Care Centers within last 12 months.
- Must report to work on time.
- Must drive, have a car and be capable of traveling on public transit when required
- Ability to utilize personal vehicle for transporting clients/peers. FolkTime will reimburse for mileage at 0.585 cents/mile.
- Members of BIPOC and LGBTQ communities are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Experience working with adults with mental health challenges and addictions recovery.
- Completion of Intentional Peer Support Training.
- U.S. Military veteran.
- Bachelors or advanced degree.
- Fluent in Spanish.
- “Please explain how you would draw on your own experiences, both personal and professional, in order to support others who are experiencing mental health distress.”
Job Title: Stewart Peer Support Specialist
JOB SITE: Clackamas County Behavioral Health (Stewart Center)
REPORTS TO: Stewart/Hilltop Supervisor
WORK HOURS: .8FTE or 32 hours/week
POSITION SUMMARY: This position works collaboratively with Clackamas County Behavioral Health’s Community Support Team at Stewart Center using a trauma-informed, holistic recovery model to support individuals with significant mental health challenges. The Peer Support Specialist at Stewart Center provides opportunities for individuals receiving services to direct their own recovery journey; supports the recognition and use of individual strengths necessary to self-empowerment and recovery; supports the development of a sense of wellness, self-compassion and self-worth; promotes the development of natural support systems outside the clinic setting. The Peer Support Specialist at Stewart Center creates relationships of hope and co-learning with both individuals receiving services and service providers by drawing on their own lived experience with mental health issues and their professional training.
MAJOR DUTIES:
- Inspire hope for persons in recovery through sharing life experiences as appropriate to the recovery process.
- Support individuals in recognizing their own unique strengths, abilities and assets, then using them to foster recovery.
- Support individuals in recognizing triggers and using their own unique ways to manage distress as an alternative to seeking structured services.
- Facilitate weekly groups with peers to create a culture of peer support, recovery and accountability.
- Work collaboratively and successfully with staff within the mental health services model while promoting peer support. Actively participate in team meetings and in all discussions with staff to promote recovery from a peer perspective.
- Encourage peers to engage in support programs and life-enrichment activities in the community as a means to building a natural support network outside the clinic setting.
- Must be comfortable working with individuals actively experiencing symptoms of mental distress.
- Must meet the Oregon Administrative Rules definition of a peer: “any individual who has similar life experience, either as a current or former recipient of addictions or mental health services, or as a family member of an individual who is a current or former recipient of addictions or mental health services.”
- Be able to develop trusting relationships with both peers and clinic staff.
- Must have an understanding of the unique needs and struggles of individuals simultaneously experiencing mental and physical health distress.
- Ability to work independently and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Competent with computers for daily record charting, appointment scheduling, emailing, and internet use or able to learn these things.
- Ability to complete all required documentation on time.
- Must be able to endorse a trauma informed care and harm reduction models of support.
- Complete a 40-hour Oregon approved peer support training
- 1+ year experience as a peer support specialist or 1+ year experience working/volunteering in a helping profession
- Must be able to pass a criminal background check and drug screening
- Must not have received behavioral health services through Clackamas County Behavioral Health Care Centers within last few months.
- Must report to work on time.
- Must drive, have a car and be capable of traveling on public transit when required
- Ability to utilize personal vehicle for transporting clients/peers. FolkTime will reimburse for mileage at $0.585 cents/mile
- Members of BIPOC and LGBTQ communities are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Experience working with adults with mental health challenges and addictions recovery.
- Completion of Intentional Peer Support Training.
- U.S. Military veteran.
- Bachelors or advanced degree.
- “Please explain how you would draw on your own experiences, both personal and professional, in order to support others who are experiencing mental health distress.”