Family Peer Specialist

Family Peer Specialist Job Description

Behavioral Health & Housing Division

Job title
Family Peer Specialist

Reports to
Clinical Director

Position Summary

The RHD Intensive Behavioral Health Services Team (IBHS), a program of Resources for Human Development, Inc. support children, youth and young adults with mental, emotional, and behavioral health needs. These services are offered in their homes, schools and communities. The Family Peer Specialist will provide peer support to children and their families.

Essential Duties and Functions

• Complete a Strengths, Needs, Culture discovery for every IBHS family
• Engage families in the IBHS process and ensure their voice is a part of treatment planning
• Identify and connect families to resources and services
• Assist families build a network of natural and community supports
• Attend treatment planning, inter-agency and multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) meetings
• Utilizing lived-experience, provide support, modeling and coaching during meetings
• Utilize Electronic Health Record, myAvatar, to document all youth and family contact via an independent note
• Assist with crisis stabilization when needed
• Collaborate with School District and community partners (i.e. STEP) in the implementation of IBHS to ensure continuity of care
• Attend weekly individual and group supervision as directed
• Participate in all mandatory and ongoing trainings specific training requirements for this Division.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED
• Valid PA driver's license

• Personal experience raising a child or family member with behavioral health challenges, the juvenile justice system, and/or children's protective services (i.e., DHS)

Required Skills and Qualities

• Possess life experiences that allow them to form healthy working relationships with the adolescent and family as well as team members
• Knowledge of community and natural supports which provide children, youth and young adults and families with opportunities to succeed
• Ability to develop, manage and maintain relationships with others
• Ability to remain understanding, patient, culturally aware and respectful to the child, family, and additional team members
• Ability to role model effective behaviors

Working conditions

Special working conditions could cover a range of working outside of conventional 9am-5pm hours to include occasional on-call circumstances of evening and weekend work, working outdoors, working with challenging program participants, and so forth.

Physical requirements

Examples of physical requirements include standing or sitting for extended periods, occasional lifting of light objects (up to 20 pounds), do repetitive tasks with few breaks, requirements to bend, stoop, reach and so forth. The use of arm and/or leg control requires force greater than sedentary, but worker still sits majority of time.

Physical Requirements

• Stand or Sit (stationary position)

• Walk

• Use hands or fingers to handle or feel (operate, activate, prepare, inspect, position)

• Climb (stairs/ladders)

• Talk/Hear (communicate, converse, convey, express/exchange information)

• See (detect, identify, recognize, inspect, assess)

• Pushing or Pulling

• Repetitive Motion

• Reaching (high or low)

• Kneel, Stoop, Crouch or Crawl (position self, move)

Reporting Relationships
Family Peer Specialist will report to the Clinical Director