Peer Support Specialist/Trainee - Adult Outpatient (Pines Location)

About the job

Frontier Behavioral Health is hiring a full-time Peer Support Specialist or Trainee for its adult outpatient program at the Pines location in Spokane Valley. Drawing on their own lived experience, peer specialists help clients and families build hope, resilience and community connections as part of a multidisciplinary team. A sign-on bonus is offered.

Frontier Behavioral Health is a nonprofit that has served Spokane for more than 100 years, offering outpatient, inpatient, community outreach and crisis services for adults, youth and seniors.

What you'll do

• Help clinicians set treatment goals and interventions for clients in mental health services
• Offer peer counseling and support to clients, parents, caregivers and community supports, sharing relevant personal experience when it helps
• Mentor clients in self-advocacy, navigating health systems, building natural supports, community living skills and finding meaningful activities
• Lead recovery groups and provide individual and group services within scope
• Meet clients before discharge from inpatient psychiatric care, join discharge planning and accompany them as they return to the community
• Help clients in crisis find resources for stabilization in the least restrictive setting
• Reach out to referred clients who miss appointments to work through barriers
• Support clients pursuing school, work or volunteering and prepare clients for graduating from services
• Keep timely, confidential client records, and travel to see clients in the community and between sites

What you need

• At least one year in recovery from a mental health condition, a substance use disorder or both, by self-identification
• A peer support credential from the WA State Department of Health (Certified Peer Support Specialist, or the Trainee version of it), or an application for the trainee credential within 90 days of starting
• High school diploma or equivalent
• An unrestricted, valid driver's license, a passing motor vehicle screening and driving test, active car insurance and willingness to use your own vehicle for work
• Daily computer use, frequent getting in and out of vehicles, walking several city blocks over varied terrain and stairs, and lifting 10 to 20 pounds
• Comfort working in community settings such as homes, group living, hospitals, shelters and the street

Preferred

• Two years of experience in a community behavioral health setting

Schedule

• Full-time
• After-hours coverage on a rotation, if applicable
• Travel between locations and to clients in the community

Benefits

• A sign-on bonus
• Paid time off of up to 26 days in the first year, plus 9 paid federal holidays
• Extended sick leave and paid sick and safe time
• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• A 403b retirement plan with an employer contribution plus an employer match
• Flexible spending accounts and company-paid life insurance starting after 6 months
• Free supervision toward clinical licensure, loan forgiveness through federal and state programs for qualifying programs, and reimbursement of the required certification fee
• A free employee assistance program and staff discounts