Bilingual Youth Peer Specialist - Wraparound Services

Bilingual Youth Peer Specialist – WISe Team

Hiring Range: $20.07 - $24.58 Per Hour

WISe Team Members Earn An Additional $2.00/Hour Differential!

Speech and writing fluency in both English and Spanish Required

Benefits: 

• Comprehensive and generous health, dental, and vision benefits
• Up to 19 days of PTO, 2 mental health days, and 10 paid holidays your first year (pro-rated for part-time)
• Company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance
• Student loan payment assistance and extensive training
• An incredible team approach that is dynamic and collaborative

General Summary of Duties: The Youth Peer Specialist (YPS) supports youth and families that have serious emotional disturbance in identifying goals that promote recovery and resiliency. Improve the operations of KMHS in support of its stated mission. Provides peer support services with WISe team staff and assist them in building a network of support. Empower families by assisting in skill-building and instilling hope.

The Youth Peer Specialist (YPS) demonstrates recovery and serve as an ambassador providing guidance and advocacy to child and family service systems.

Major Responsibilities/Tasks:

• Draw on common experiences as a peer to validate clients' experience and to provide guidance and encouragement for clients to take responsibility and participate in their recovery.  Promote hope and empowerment designed to help clients attain recovery goals and maintain the highest possible independence level, even during periods of instability. 
• Activities of Daily Living Services: Provides ongoing assessment, problem-solving, side-by-side services, skill teaching, support, and environmental adaptations to assist clients with daily living activities.  Assists and supports clients with personal hygiene and grooming tasks.  Provide nutrition education. Assists and supports clients to have and effectively use a personal primary care physician, dentist, and other medical specialists as required.
• Social and Interpersonal Relationships and Leisure Time: Provides side-by-side support, coaching, and encouragement to help clients socialize, going with a client to community activities, including activities offered by consumer-run peer support organizations.  Assists clients to plan and carry out leisure time activities. Organizes and leads individual and group social and recreational activities to help clients structure their time, increase social experiences, and provide opportunities to practice social skills.
• Other coaching, guidance, and transition support:  Provides transition services from hospital to community, including medication management.  Assist in providing ongoing assessment and direct services to clients, responding to such challenges as an increase in suicidality, the need for substance abuse education and treatment, and the clients' readiness for meaningful daily activity.
• Act as an interpreter to the rest of the team while providing expertise and consultation from a client perspective in areas such as symptoms, effects and side effects of medications, client opinions of treatment, and client recovery experiences.
• Help clients and staff to identify, understand, and combat stigma, discrimination and assist clients in locating self-help and consumer advocacy groups that promote recovery while acting as the liaison between the team and such groups.
• Collaborate with staff and clients on awareness of client rights, including grievance and complaint procedures; support clients with filing, mediating, and resolving complaints.
• Assist in providing ongoing assessment and direct services to clients, responding to su