Peer Support Specialist

Location: Forest City, NC

Position type: Full time

Requirement

• Must be Certified Peer Support Specialist listed on the NCCPSSP.
• Must have one (1) year of adult behavioral health experience working with individuals with mental health or substance use disorders and have the knowledge, skills, and abilities required by the population and age to be served.
  
  

A Caring Alternative, LLC (ACA) is a well-established comprehensive care agency providing behavioral health and substance use disorder services to adults, adolescents, and children in Western North Carolina.

To learn more about us, visit our website at www.caringalternative.com.

The role of a Peer Support Specialist is to serve as a resource for adults with mental health and/or co-occurring conditions. This service consists of community-based mental health and substance use services, and structured rehabilitative interventions intended to increase and restore an individual’s ability to live successfully in the community. The team approach involves structured, face-to-face therapeutic interventions that assist in reestablishing the individual’s community roles related to the following life domains: emotional, behavioral, social, safety, housing, medical and health, educational, vocational, and legal.

Why apply at A Caring Alternative?

• We celebrate diversity, so bring YOU! We want you to be proud and comfortable to bring your true self and we strive to enhance the value of our work through respectful curiosity of one another’s culture.
• Competitive Payrates! We offer a competitive rate of pay. Work related mileage is paid tax free.
• Free Clinical Supervision! If you are provisionally licensed, our company pays for this benefit directly to our clinical supervisor in the amount of $200 per month/$2,600 per year. Clinical supervision is provided by clinicians within our agency who will allow you to acquire new skills and grow in your ability to provide quality services during your employment with our company.
• Be a Team Member! As a member of our team, we are dedicated to promoting your talents, skillset, and energies to improve the environment and quality for those we serve. We are in the business of caring and committed to building an organization where our team can grow together by helping others.
• Strong Core Values! Join our values-based, family-owned company with a culture that we care.
• Flexibility! We work in a team environment and promote flexibility. One of our core values is that our employees have a healthy work-life balance.
• Training! Solid training is provided & paid for by the company. Free CPR, First Aid and NPI training. CEUs are available and external training is also paid for by company.
  
  

Job Duties Include

• Assist individuals in obtaining safe, decent, and affordable housing that follows his or her preferences in level of independence and location, consistent with an evidence-based Supportive Housing model.
• Apply for housing subsidies and housing programs.
• Assist the individual in developing amicable relationships with local landlords.
• Assist with the housing application and search process including locating available rental units, identifying landlord partners, completing applications, identifying resources to cover application fees, completing applications for eligible housing programs, and transporting the individual during the housing search process.
• Assist in arranging for and supporting the details of the move such as utility connection, purchase housing items to set up apartment (bedroom, kitchen, living room, bathroom), and arrange transportation to move items to apartment.
• Assist the individual to improve ability to budget his or her money and pay bills.
  
  

Education And Experience Required

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Certified Peer Support Specialist in NC.
• Must have two (2) year of adult behavioral health experience working with individuals with mental health or substance use disorders and have the knowledge, skills, and abilities required by the population and age to be served.
  
  

Benefits! We offer a comprehensive benefits package for full time employees.

• 401(k) & Roth retirement plans.
• 401(k) & Roth company matching.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Direct Deposit.
• Paid Time Off accrual begins upon hire, 100 hours first year, plus 16 hrs sick time.
• Major medical, dental & vision insurance after 60 days.
• Company paid Life Insurance.
• Short term & long-term insurance.
• Free Employee Assistance Program for financial, emotional & legal help.
  
  

A Caring Alternative, LLC is a CARF accredited service provider with facilities in Asheville, Hickory, Marion, and Morganton, NC. A Caring Alternative, LLC is CABHA certified and a Trauma Informed Agency. We provide an array of services to Alexander, Buncombe, Burke, Catawba, Caldwell, Iredell, McDowell, and Mitchell counties which consist of Assertive Community Treatment Team, Community Support Team, Day Treatment, Integrated Care, Intensive In-Home, Medication Management, Outpatient Therapy, and Therapeutic Foster Care.

We are an equal opportunity employer.

About A Caring Alternative

AboutEstablished in 2006.A Caring Alternative, LLC (ACA) is a well-established comprehensive care agency providing behavioral health and substance use disorder services to adults, adolescents, and children in Western North Carolina. Proudly serving the community since 2006.