Certified Peer Support Specialist - COMCARE

Department:  COMCARE 

Pay:  $18.36 per hour.  

Work Schedule: Varied Hours, 40 hours per week.  

Sedgwick County offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees that includes health coverages, paid leave, regular compensation reviews, retirement plans, and professional development opportunities.  For more detailed information, please visit our benefits page at SCBenefits.

Provide goal-directed, medically necessary peer support services to adults with severe and persistent mental illness to assist them to remain in the least restrictive environment.

Service Provision Case Management Services

• Peer Support using identified and accepted methods to remediate symptoms of mental illness and/or improve emotional and functional well-being
• Help consumers regain the ability to make independent choices and to take a proactive role in treatment
• Share “lived experience” and model successful behavior and strategies
• Provide transportation to support client attendance in medical appointments and other therapeutic goal related activities, including development of community resources, employment or education access, social or consumer-run activities, and related supports.

Documentation

• Complete progress notes in accordance with COMCARE and CCBHC guidelines which meet requirements for medical necessity, goal-directed treatment and client response to treatment within prescribed timelines
• Complete Notes for Record, Precautions statements and authorizations for release of records as required and/or recommended
• Enters no show and cancellations for accuracy and completeness of medical record

General Administrative Duties

• Participate in multidisciplinary or peer team meetings to improve treatment and develop intervention strategies as needed
• Enter AIMS data as needed
• Attend staff meetings and individual/group supervision
• Travel to and from sites in personal transportation
• Identify and attend continuing education/training to enhance or expand practice and implement best practices related to the employee s area of practice within COMCARE

Minimum Qualifications: High School diploma or equivalent.  Must self-identify as a person in recovery from a behavioral health condition. Per Sedgwick County policy, this is a driving level position that requires a valid US driver’s license without restrictions and current proof of automobile insurance. Must have access to personal passenger vehicle to complete the driving duties of the position. Must be able to achieve and maintain designation as a Certified Peer Support Specialist for the State of Kansas, including completion of all required training within 6 months of hire. Meet the specifications as outlined in the CMHC/CCBHC licensing standards and pass KBI, DCF child abuse check, and adult abuse registry. Must complete orientations provided by Sedgwick County and COMCARE.

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