Family Peer Support Specialist

Who We Are:

Santé Group Companies prides itself in being a leader in community-based behavioral and mental health services. Our track record of innovation and growth reflects our ability to deliver diverse and highly individualized services. We have a passion for providing empathetic and potentially life-saving care to help individuals heal, recover, and thrive, as well as live their lives in a manner that allows them to fully integrate in the community. The Santé Group aspires to create an organization that places value on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and inclusiveness. To achieve this success, it is essential that all members of our organization feel secure, welcome, and respected. All members of our organization have a responsibility to uphold these values.

What We're Looking For:

Santé is seeking a Full-Time Family Peer Support Specialist to join our frontline Mobile Response Stabilization Services (MRSS) team in Elkton, MD. As the Peer Specialist, you will be paired with a Clinician as a 2-person team responding to requests for crisis stabilization for youth and their caregivers in the local community. As a team, you will work together to assess, evaluate, and perform crisis intervention techniques, develop crisis and treatment plans for the identified youth and serve as the liaison for collaboration with involved parties, including families and community partners up to an 8-week time period.

What You'll Do:

• Promote youth and caregiver's health, self-direction, skill development, and ensure goals are developed for long-term stabilization.
• Provide education and resources to youth and their caregivers including but not limited to, community resources, family peer support services, support groups and networks.
• Serve as an advocate for youth and their caregivers
• Assist in the wraparound planning processes and the development of crisis and other youth and family-driven plans for a warm hand-off to longer-term services and programs.
• Partner with youth, family/caregivers and other community agencies to broker positive relationships over an 8-12-week time period
• Attend community stakeholder meetings as pertains to the involved youth

What We Require:

• High School Diploma or equivalent and at least one (1) year professional experience (experience working with children and families in a community-based program preferred).
• Peer Recovery Specialist Certification (CPRS) or willingness to be certified within a one (1) year of employment (Sante will pay for your certification if you do not have it at the time of hire).
• Three (3) years personal lived experience caring for a child with behavior dysregulation, a mental health diagnosis, or dealing with a co-occurring disorder.
• Valid driver's license and proof of current automobile insurance.

What You'll Get:

• Competitive benefits package including a 403(b) with company match.
• Opportunities for career growth, ongoing training and development, flexible work schedules and shifts.
• Financial assistance for certification fees.
• Company-wide wellness program.
• The rare opportunity to make a difference in the very community that you call home. We are leading providers in Behavioral and Mental Health!
• Smart, passionate, and engaged coworkers.

Disclaimers:

Santé Group Companies aspires to create an organization that places value on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and inclusivity. To achieve this success, it is essential that all members of our organization feel secure, welcomed, and respected. All members of our organization have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Santé Group Companies is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job. The Santé Group participates in E-Verify. http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf