Crisis Peer Specialist - Swing Shift, MRT

Description

Days Off: Saturday, Sunday

Shift: Swing  (3:00pm-11:30pm)

Shift Differential: $0.50 per hour

Insurance Benefits: Dental, Life, Long-term Disability, Medical (no premiums/payroll deductions for employee coverage)

Other Benefits:  Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), ORCA card subsidy, Paid Time Off (34 days per year), Retirement  Plan 

Union Representation: This position is a part of a union and is represented by SEIU Healthcare 1199NW.

About DESC:

DESC (Downtown Emergency Service Center) is a nonprofit organization working to help people with the complex needs of homelessness, substance use disorders, and serious mental illness achieve their highest potential for health and well-being through comprehensive services, treatment, and housing. Our vision is a community where no person is abandoned, ignored, or experiencing homelessness.

As the region's leading provider of services to multiply disabled adults who have experienced chronic homelessness, DESC serves almost 3,000 people each day. Our integrated service model is designed to help people secure and maintain appropriate, safe and affordable housing. DESC is recognized nationally and regionally as an innovator in developing solutions to homelessness.

Job Definition:

The Mobile Response Team (MRT) provides 24/7 mental and behavioral health services at Health through Housing (HtH) facilities and targeted Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) sites across King County. The primary goal of the program is to provide in the moment crisis behavioral health services and time-limited behavioral health case management via mobile intensive response teams for the purpose of assisting individuals in becoming aware of behavioral health and other community service options. The MRT is a mobile interdisciplinary team consisting of certified peer counselors, behavioral health case managers, substance use disorder professionals, mental health professionals and Narcan waivered medical staff. 

Peer Specialists will work with an integrated team responding to crises, meet with residents to assist in their recovery and success, lead recovery groups, and participate incase consultation and treatment planning.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• In response to and cooperation with PSH and HTH staff, perform timely outreach services to individuals needing crisis intervention services, assessment, referral, and linkage to needed services.
• As a member of a multi-disciplinary team, provide multi-axial assessments, chemical dependency assessments, crisis intervention, stabilization and meaningful engagement for adults
• Establish and implement a plan to successfully engage clients in relevant services and other resources.
• As needed, provide follow-up services aimed at establishing linkage to services for program participants.
• Facilitate recovery groups at housing sites
• Complete all data collection and documentation required of the MRT Project and DESC in a timely manner.
• Develop and maintain cooperative relationships with traditional & non-traditional programs/services providing services for the population served.
• Provide peer recovery support.
• Assist residents with voicing their interests and goals through a variety of channels including: Goal Plans, Crisis Plans, WRAP, and other methods of expressing individual preferences for their recovery goals.
• Help participants identify, understand, and combat stigma and discrimination associated with mental health concerns and substance use disorders and develop strategies to reduce self-stigma.
• Integrate personal experience with mental health concerns and substance use disorders into work with program participants.
• Work collaboratively with Peer Specialists across all DESC programs to grow, learn, develop with and from one another through sharing personal experiences and professional development.
• Comply with applicable program research and evaluation procedures.
• Comply with the all-agency policies and procedures, and relevant titles of the Washington Administrative Code and Revised Code of Washington.
• Advocate for clients' access to both traditional and non-traditional community resources and services, ensuring that clients' needs are met, and rights maintained; consult and collaborate with community providers & resources to ensure continuity of care.
• Participate in psychiatric consultation, supervision, program meetings and in-service trainings; participate in clinical reviews and case conferences for clients on caseload.
• Participate in verbal de-escalation in emergent situations a