Job Description:

Job Title: Certified Peer Specialist

Location: Independence, Missouri (Kansas City area)
Department: Recovery Services

Employment Type: Full Time

Shift: Monday - Friday (8:00am - 5:00pm CST)

Job Summary:

Are you a passionate and dedicated mental health professional looking to make a positive impact in the lives of others? Do you want to work in a supportive and dynamic environment where you can grow your skills and advance your career? Join our team at Burrell Behavioral Health as a Certified Peer Specialist in the Kansas City, Missouri area!

As a dedicated Peer Specialist, you will act as a guiding partner to clients, accompanying them on their path toward treatment and recovery. Empowering clients to embrace recovery skills, self-care, and healthy coping mechanisms lies at the core of your role. Meeting clients where they are in their journey, you'll approach them in a sincere, non-judgmental manner, cultivating trust and fostering their pursuit of individualized treatment plan goals. Ultimately, your lived experience serves as a powerful example, motivating clients to envision and realize their own triumphs in recovery.

Living in the Kansas City area provides a wonderful blend of Midwestern charm and urban sophistication. Known for its world-class barbecue, jazz heritage, and professional sports teams, Kansas City offers a plethora of activities to entertain and engage residents. With a vibrant arts scene, an extensive park system, excellent school districts, a plethora of family-friendly attractions, and an affordable cost of living, the Kansas City area allows you and your loved ones to enjoy a high quality, balanced, and enjoyable lifestyle.

Position Perks & Benefits:

• Employee benefits package - health, dental, vision, retirement, life, & more
• Paid time off - 29 days per year including vacation & holiday pay
• Mileage reimbursement - company paid for work functions requiring travel
• Top-notch training - initial, ongoing, comprehensive, and supportive
• Career mobility - advancement opportunities/promoting from within
• Welcoming, warm, supportive - a work culture & environment that promotes your well-being, values you as human being, and encourages your health and happiness
  

Key Responsibilities:

• Empowerment: Helping individuals with mental illness recognize their strengths, set goals, and make informed decisions about their lives.
• Advocacy: Supporting individuals in advocating for themselves and accessing needed resources and services, while also advocating on behalf of consumers to improve systems and policies.
• Emotional Support: Providing emotional support through active listening, validation, encouragement, and sharing personal experiences in ways that inspire hope and resilience.
• Crisis Intervention: Assisting individuals during crises, helping de-escalate situations, connecting them to appropriate services, and supporting coping skills development.
• Skill Building: Teaching practical skills like problem solving, communication, stress management, symptom management, and relapse prevention.
• Resource Connection: Connecting individuals to relevant community resources, such as housing, employment, education, vocational training, transportation, financial assistance, and peer support groups.
• System Navigation: Guiding individuals through complex service systems, explaining options and benefits, facilitating appointments, and accompanying individuals to meetings with service providers.
• Recovery Model Promotion: Encouraging a recovery-oriented philosophy focused on wellness, self-determination, and person-centered planning.
• Cultural Competence: Demonstrating cultural humility and sensitivity, respecting diversity, and understanding how culture influences help-seeking behavior and recovery.
• Ethical Standards: Adhering to ethical guidelines and codes of conduct, safeguarding privacy, obtaining consent, avoiding dual relationships, and practicing self-care.

Education and/or Experience Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED.
• Must be a Certified Missouri Peer Specialist

Additional Qualifications:

• A valid driver's license and a reliable vehicle.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Teamwork & independence, adjusting to a rapidly changing environment
• Empathetic approach with a commitment to helping others
• Reading & writing proficiency, numeracy skills, and presenting to audiences
• Problem solving, CRP, First Aid, CPI, phone etiquette, accepting supervision
• Computer literacy & human relation skills, crisis intervention, entering clinical data

Brightli is on a Mission:

A mission to improve client care, reduce the financial burden of community mental health centers by sharing resources, a mission to have a larger voice in advocacy to increase access to mental health and substance use care in our communities, and a mission to evolve the behavioral health industry to better meet the needs of our clients.

As a behavioral and community mental health provider, we value diversity, equity, and inclusion in our workforce and encourage applications from individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences. If you are passionate about empowering your local communities and promoting health equity, we invite you to join our mission-driven organization that is committed to building a diverse, equitable, inclusive and authentic workplace.

We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, disability or veteran status, or to other non-work related factors.

Burrell is a Smoke and Tobacco Free Workplace.