Parent Peer Support Specialist/Trainee - WISe Program - Parent Peer

About the job

Frontier Behavioral Health is hiring a full-time parent peer support specialist or trainee in Spokane for its WISe (Wrap Around with Intensive Services) program. Working on a wraparound team, the parent peer supports WISe-enrolled youth and their families at home and in the community, helping build a child-centered system of care that aims to prevent out-of-home placement.

Frontier Behavioral Health is a non-profit that has served Spokane for more than 100 years, offering evidence-based behavioral health treatment to adults, youth and seniors. Its services include outpatient, inpatient, community outreach and crisis services, along with partnerships with schools and law enforcement.

What you'll do

• Help clinicians on the multi-disciplinary team set treatment goals and interventions for clients seeking mental health care
• Work with children at home and in the community, involving the whole family in treatment and focusing on strengths, the child's age and cultural heritage
• Draw on your own experience as a peer to give families ongoing support, encouraging them to regain hope and control and to take an active part in their child's care
• Make sure each family is heard and its needs are met, and that parents have a voice in their youth's care
• Advocate for families and help them gain the knowledge and skills to guide and take part in their child's treatment
• Find services and activities that support recovery, build hope and a sense of purpose and reduce stigma, and link clients with helpful community resources
• Provide individual and group services to enrolled clients, including leading recovery groups
• Engage youth and families before discharge from inpatient psychiatric care, join discharge planning as appropriate and support families through the return to the community
• Help families in crisis find resources for stabilization in the least restrictive appropriate setting, and prepare youth and families to graduate from WISe services
• Keep close contact with WISe team members and other staff, and keep client records timely and confidential, following agency policy

What you need

• A parent or legal guardian of a young person who receives, or has received, behavioral health services
• A Certified Peer Support Specialist or a Certified Peer Support Specialist Trainee credential issued by the WA State Department of Health
• If you hold neither credential, active or pending, apply for the trainee credential within 90 days of your start date
• High school diploma or equivalent
• An unrestricted, valid driver's license, active car insurance and willingness to use your own vehicle for work
• Hiring level and pay depend on your credential at offer: Certified Peer Support Specialist, Certified Peer Support Specialist Trainee, or Peer Support Specialist Trainee if yours is pending or not yet applied for
• Daily client work in community settings such as homes, group living settings, hospitals, shelters and the street, some of which may not be clean or habitable
• Able to drive, walk up to several city blocks over varied terrain, climb stairs and get in and out of vehicles often
• Daily computer use, and you may need to lift 10 to 20 pounds

Preferred

• Two years of experience in a community behavioral health setting

Schedule

• Full-time
• A flexible 24/7 schedule, rotating with other clinical staff on the WISe team
• An on-call supervisor rotation, including evenings and weekends, to support and consult with the on-call WISe clinical provider on crisis calls
• Daily travel between work sites and out to clients in the community

Benefits

• A sign-on bonus
• Paid time off accruing up to 26 days in the first year, plus 9 paid federal holidays
• Paid sick and safe time, plus extended sick leave
• A compressed workweek option for some positions, adding up to 26 more days off a year
• Medical, dental and vision coverage and flexible spending accounts
• A 403b retirement plan with a standard 3% employer contribution and an additional 3% employer match
• Company-paid life insurance starting the first of the month after 6 months of employment
• No-cost supervision for staff pursuing clinical licensure
• Federal and state loan forgiveness for qualifying programs
• Reimbursement of the license or certification application fee the position requires
• A free employee assistance program and staff discounts with FBH partners around Spokane