ACT Peer Support Specialist - Per Diem

Description

Are you passionate about using your own journey of recovery to empower others?

Join our dynamic, multidisciplinary Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team as a Peer Support Specialist! We are looking for someone with lived experience in mental health recovery who wants to make a real difference, providing hope, advocacy, and community-based support to adults living with severe and persistent mental illness, co-occurring diagnosis and/or substance use disorder. Join our team in this per diem capacity, perfect for someone looking for flexibility with a steady schedule of 20-30 hours per week.

As a Peer Support Specialist, you aren’t just a team member—you are the heart of our recovery-focused approach. You will provide a unique perspective that clinical training cannot replicate, helping clients build trusting relationships and achieve their personal goals.

• Why Join Us?
• At Riverbend, you are not just an employee; you are part of a team committed to strengthening our community.
• We offer a supportive, inclusive, and positive work culture where your efforts are recognized and valued.
• We offer a supportive work environment where your contributions truly matter.
• We also have many opportunities for professional growth and development through training and certification programs.

What You’ll Do

• Be a
• Beacon of
• Hope: Utilize your own lived experience with mental health challenges to inspire, engage, and support clients in their recovery journey.
• Meet
• Clients
• Where
• They
• Are: Provide community-based, face-to-face support in clients’ homes, neighborhoods, and natural environments.
• Be an
• Advocate: Ensure client voices, preferences, and goals are respected, understood, and central to the team’s treatment planning.
• Coach &
• Educate: Provide peer counseling, psychoeducation, and mentoring on wellness, self-care, and illness self-management.
• Support
• Community
• Living: Assist individuals in avoiding unnecessary hospitalizations or incarcerations by providing in-the-moment support.
• Collaborate with a