Certified Peer Specialist Youth -Part Time

LOWNDES MENTAL HEALTH CLINIC, 3120 N OAK ST EXT, VALDOSTA, Georgia, United States of America Req #1149

Friday, February 14, 2025

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Job Description

Legacy Behavioral Health Services is hiring individuals with a passion for making a difference in their community! We are seeking a Certified Peer Specialist Youth. The Certified Peer Specialist Youth under general supervision provides peer support services focused on the Emerging Adult and Adolescent populations. The candidate is a young adult with experience living with a mental health or substance use condition, who has received behavioral health services as a youth, is willing and able to self-identify as a person living with a behavioral health condition, and is prepared to use that experience in helping other youth/young adults living with similar conditions. CPS-Y will provide services that consist of rehabilitative skills building, development of environmental supports, and resources coordination. These services are essential to assist individuals in improving functioning and gaining access to necessary services, thereby creating environments that promote recovery and support emotional and functional improvement.

The Youth CPS will also participate in the engagement and coordination of care for children, adolescents, and young adults with other systems and internal providers.

Benefits:

Employee Assistance Program: We offer EAP services to all full-time and part-time employees. EAP services include legal assistance, financial consultations, access to work-life specialists, and up to 4 counseling sessions.

This position requires:

• Be 18-26 years of age (valid Georgia ID);
• Have a mental health (MH) condition, substance use disorder (SUD), or a co-occurring diagnosis, and a strong desire to identify themselves as a person living with a mental illness or substance use diagnosis;
• Be able/willing to actively seek and manage their own appropriate care;
• Be able to share their own personal story in a safe and appropriate way;
• Must be well-grounded in recovery wellness;
• One year between diagnosis and application to training. If the individual has a substance use condition, there must be one year of continuous abstinence from substance use;
• High school diploma or GED required.

Who are we:

Legacy Behavioral Health Services provides support within 10 counties in South GA: Ben-Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Echols, Irwin, Lanier, Lowndes, Tift, and Turner County. Legacy Behavioral Health Services believes that through individualized care, quality of care, and support, your life could be transformed.

Working Conditions:
Must be physically and emotionally fit to work in a stress-filled environment to meet deadlines and deal with routine and crisis situations. May have extended periods of sitting, walking, and standing. Requires varying hours of duty to provide monitoring, educational and/or crisis handling, as well as travel to off-campus locations in LBHS or personal vehicle.

ALL RELEVANT INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION.

Position opened to:

ALL QUALIFIED APPLICANTS.

Internal Applicants must be in their current position for 6 months with no disciplinary action unless the position available is within your current department and you have been employed in your current position for 1 month without any disciplinary action.

Drug-Free and Smoke Free Workplace / Equal Opportunity Employer.