Mobile Crisis Peer Support Specialist II

Job Description

Job Description

Starting Compensation: $19.37 to $22.27 hourly rate based on experience.

Employee Signing Incentive for Regular Full-Time Employees:

Livingston County Community Mental Health Authority is excited to offer an Employee Signing Incentive to eligible new hires. Regular full-time employees will receive $2,000, less applicable taxes. More information on terms and conditions will be made available at the time an offer of employment is made.

About Us:

Livingston County Community Mental Health is a public mental health services provider located in Howell, Michigan, between Detroit and Lansing. We are an agency joined by the shared vision to create a healthy and rewarding life in the community for everyone. Our team approach works together to serve individuals with a wide array of needs in order to create individualized pathways to wellness, resilience, recovery, and self-determination.

Working for Us: (Regular Full-time Only)

Join our team and enjoy a generous benefits package effective on Day 1, including a 5% employer retirement contribution and a voluntary 457(b) salary deferment plan. We provide employer-paid 2X salary life insurance, long-term disability, plus generous contributions to BCBS medical and Delta Dental. Find rewarding work supporting Livingston County residents alongside dedicated colleagues.

Our comprehensive benefit plan also includes vision coverage, short-term disability, accident coverage, legal and identity theft programs, and voluntary life insurance. Take advantage of our Spring Health Mental Health Wellness program, offering free counseling, life coaches, and self-care tools. Generous paid time off with vacation, sick, personal, 13 holidays (4 floating), and more choices through our Cafeteria Benefit plan.

We prioritize your overall well-being through robust financial benefits, mental health support, and work-life balance offerings. Become part of our mission while enjoying a valuable total rewards package. All while enjoying rewarding work supporting Livingston County residents alongside dedicated colleagues.

The Mobile Crisis Peer Support Specialist will look forward to :

Meaningful, rewarding work with opportunities to develop your clinical skills through regular supervision. Join a supportive, diverse team allowing you to collaborate with experienced colleagues. Our positive environment values diversity and provides avenues to take on special projects aligning with your interests. Enjoy potential for career advancement plus an efficient, electronic health record system.

Role:

Under the supervision of a Mental Health Program Director and a Program Coordinator, advocates for the community support needs of people with mental illness. Peer Support Specialist II is a person who has progressed in their own recovery from a mental health condition and/or substance use disorder and is willing to self-identify as a peer and work to assist other individuals with a mental health condition and/or substance use disorder. Because of their life experience, such persons have expertise that professional training cannot replicate.

Requirements to join us:

Candidates must be committed to our shared values and commitment to community care, including clinical excellence, community inclusion, community benefit, innovation, integrated care and improvement. Our collaborative approach to treatment requires strong teaming skills. This is a dynamic, team-oriented position with great opportunities to grow.

Job Specific Requirements:

Mobile Crisis Team Functions: as scheduled afternoons, evenings, with some weekend hours. Working as a team member with any individual or family of any age or mental health/substance abuse condition.

Rapid Response to Mental Health Crises:

• Participates in mobile crisis team responses to calls from individuals, families, law enforcement, healthcare providers, or crisis hotlines (e.g., 988 in the U.S.).
• Provides peer-based emotional support and reassurance to individuals experiencing mental health crises.

De-escalation and Stabilization:

• Utilizes personal recovery experience and peer support techniques to assist in de-escalating crises.
• Supports efforts to resolve crises in the community setting whenever possible, reducing the need for hospitalization or law enforcement intervention.

Supportive Mental Health Engagement:

• Encourages individuals to engage in self-directed recovery and coping strategies.
• Assists in developing wellness plans and short-term crisis coping strategies.

Connection to Resources:

• Provides guidance on accessing community mental health services, housing programs, private outpatient mental health care, substance use treatment, and other support services.
• Assists in linking individuals with crisis stabilization centers and ongoing care providers.

Collaboration with Mobile Crisis Team Members:

• Works alongside crisis clinicians and first responders as part of the crisis team.
• Supports efforts to ensure a person-centered and trauma-informed response to mental health crises.

Follow-Up Support:

• Engages in short-term follow-up to provide continued peer support and ensure connection with recommended services.
• Assists in coordinating care with case managers, therapists, or peer support specialists.

Monitors recipient rights violations and complies with recipient rights reporting requirements established by the Mental Health Code and procedures of the Community Mental Health Services Board.

Consults with master's or bachelor's level crisis professionals as needed.

Qualifications and Experience:

Employment Qualifications:

Education: High school diploma or equivalent.

Experience: Individuals providing Peer Support Services must be able to demonstrate their experience in relation to the types of guidance, support, and mentoring activities they will be providing. Individuals providing these services should be those generally recognized and accepted as peers.

Other Requirements:

• Successful training completion and certification of an MDHHS-approved peer certification training: Michigan Certified Peer Support Specialist or Michigan Peer Recovery Coach.
• Possession of a valid Michigan driver's license.
• Ability to successfully utilize an electronic medical record to complete documentation requirements.

Individuals who are functioning as Peer Support Specialists serving beneficiaries with a mental health condition and/or substance use disorder must:

• Have a serious mental illness.
• Have received public mental health services currently or in the past.
• Work at least 10 hours per week as a Peer Support Specialist.

The qualifications listed above are not intended to represent the minimum skills and experience levels associated with performing the duties and responsibilities contained in this job description. The qualifications should not be viewed as expressing absolute employment or promotional standards but as general guidelines that should be considered along with other job-related selection or promotional criteria.

Mobile Crisis Team operates outside normal business hours on evenings and weekends.

Participation in all mobile crisis trainings is required.

Physical Requirements:

This job description requires the ability to perform the essential functions contained in this description. These include, but are not limited to, the following requirements. Reasonable accommodations will be made for otherwise qualified applicants unable to fulfill one or more of these requirements:

• Bending and stooping to access office files to place and retrieve documents.
• Walks over uneven terrain and climbs stairs to access consumers in their homes and community settings.
• Ability to operate an automobile.
• Ability to participate in the training program required for Certified Peer Support Specialists.

Working Conditions:

• Works in all settings and travels throughout the county to provide services to children, adults, and families as part of a mobile crisis team.