Certified Peer Support Specialist

Come and share your story, as a paid staff member of Perfect Place Drop-In Center. A Peer specialist is a person who has lived experience with mental illness and/or substance abuse but has successfully maintained recovery and stability for a least a year. Now, use your testimony to advocate for others as they start and/or continue their journey of recovery. Encourage them to remain engaged with treatment. This is a full or part-time position with starting pay based on experience.

Please email your resume to [email protected] (no phone calls)

Job Description: Peer Support Specialist
All employees of PPDC are required to always conduct themselves in a professional manner and
comply with the standards set forth in the Employee handbook.
All employees are required to support the mission of PPDC in all activities and act as
ambassadors. Peer Support Specialist play a vital role, liaising between individuals served and the
public.
The Program Director/Certified Peer Support Specialist should be a motivated individual with a
positive attitude that is committed to the mission for PPDC.
Peer Support Specialist Responsibilities:
1. Member Engagement
2. Promote and facilitate recovery-based concepts for PPDC members through program leadership.
3. Mental health and wellness education, peer-led support groups, symptom management, and selfdetermination.
4. Facilitates support groups, which may include symptom management, tools for maintaining recovery for
PPDC members as their CPSS.
5. Creates and facilitates wellness-minded programs that involve members and staff in promoting healthy
living.
6. Connect members with resources to encourage personal empowerment and responsibility.
7. Develop informational mental health recovery programs to present to the community at large.
8. To interact and “model” mental health recovery to PPDC members.
9. Responsible for reporting daily attendance and creating/filing of new member applications.
10. Assists the Director in development of flyers, monthly calendars, and various correspondences (as
requested).
11. Rotates, and tracks inventory of the PPDC kitchen supplies, kitchen supplies and cleaning supplies.
12. Perform light assembly/organize maintenance-related items. (As directed and needed)
13. Assist any Volunteer helpers in completing their designated tasks.
14. Light housekeeping duties, throughout the center, as issued by any of the Directors.
15. Transportation as needed
Other Duties:
All other duties that are general in nature and are related to the scope and practice of this position.
Performance Expectations:
1. Perform job duties, and responsibilities, in a professional manner and comply with the code of conduct
and other standards set forth in the PPDC handbook.
2. Support the mission of PPDC with integrity and act as an ambassador. (Respect other’s boundaries and
personal space, proper manners with other staff and members, demonstrate self-care as an example to
members, respecting other’s conversations.)
3. Maintain excellence in all work efforts, presentation, attitude, and practice in a manner that
demonstrates loyalty to the organization, integrity in the process, and
honor to all ethical, legal/policy, knowledgebase, resources, and the purpose and intent of the
organization.
4. Perform all job duties in accordance with applicable safety, health and accessibility policies and
procedures.
5. Complete nightly cleaning i.e bathrooms, lobby, activity room such as sweeping, pool area lobby such as
sweeping, emptying any trash left behind and organizing areas as needed.
6. Demonstrate an applied commitment to the mission, vision, and values, as well as knowledge and skills
in consumer-oriented practices, as well as innovations in support,
service, treatment, and care practices.
Monitor and be always aware of members whereabouts.
Minimum Qualifications:
1. Be a multi-tasker that can perform the job while interacting with members that attend the program.
2. Have conflict management skills and the ability to engage members in appropriate behaviors.
3. Knowledge of PC applications, including Microsoft Office, familiarity with the internet and data entry
skills.
4. Strong organization/tracking skills in creating and maintaining attendance and membership documents.
5. Experience providing support for individuals who have various mental health conditions.
6. Must know how to respond in a professional manner if a crisis arises within the center.
7. Have access to reliable transportation.
8. Be a current, or past, client who’s received mental health services with a Michigan Public Mental Health
provider agency.
9. Be a CPSS in the state of Michigan or the ability to become a CPSS in the state of Michigan.
10. Must be strong in their own mental health/substance use recovery and able to model recovery to
others.
11. Willingness to “share” your recovery story with others.
12. Ability to lift 30 pounds.
13. High school diploma or GED.
Compliance/Safety Requirements:
1. Perform job duties and responsibilities in accordance with professional code of ethics and standards of
conduct set forth in the PPDC employee
handbook and workplace policies and procedures of the center.
2. Performs job duties and responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s programs, reports
violations
and cooperates with investigations.
3. Maintains excellence in all work efforts and supports the mission of PPDC with integrity.
4. Performs job duties and responsibilities in accordance with applicable workplace policies and
procedures for identification of risk, risk assessment and risk control.
5. Performs job duties and responsibilities in accordance with applicable safety and health policies and
procedures and reports health and safety risk,
accidents, incidents, injuries, and property damage as appropriate.