Peer Support Specialist/Mobile Clinic Driver

Make a Difference in Someone’s Life! At Monarch, we work together to provide life-changing care in communities across North Carolina.
As a team, we provide hope, promote wellness, and empower individuals and families impacted by mental illness, substance use disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and traumatic brain injury.
You Belong at Monarch You deserve a positive and encouraging work environment - a place where you can do your best work and grow as a professional.
That is just what you’ll find at Monarch.
Here, we care for people, including our team members.
We offer a comprehensive, competitive benefits package that supports full-time and part-time team members and their families.
More than just a job, this opportunity with Monarch will give you room to spread your wings and grow because we believe in promoting from within and developing future leaders.
This Opportunity: Provide peer support services to individuals in the community through Monarch’s Mobile Crisis Unit.
Staff will be a part of the interdisciplinary team to engage, provide support and resource information to people supported.
The Mobile unit will travel daily and provide support in 4 NC counties.
Peer Support staff will be responsible in driving 30 foot Mobile Clinic unit to each location daily – with day start/end in Rocky Mount.
What You'll Do: • Provide supportive services through the Mobile Clinic to assist individuals in the community to get linked to and access needed services.
• Responsible for daily driving of 30 foot Mobile clinic unit (similar to a recreational vehicle (RV)) • Responsible for daily checks and maintenance of vehicle (inclusive of water and waste) as per checklist and procedures.
Other tasks include but not limited to stocking of care supplies on the Mobile Clinic at start of shift and transfer of unused supplies into main building at the end of shift.
• Ensure Mobile Clinic is secure at end of shift • Emphasize personal safety, self worth, confidence, growth, connection to the community, boundary setting, planning, self advocacy, personal fulfillment, development of social supports, the helper principle, and effective communication skills.
• Assist individuals in making informed choices with regard to their care and services and other life decisions affecting their illness.
• Assist in the development of comprehensive crisis plans and work with people receiving services to effectively use their crisis plans.
• Assist with self help, advocacy, pre-crisis support, and facilitating an individual with speaking with their employer regarding reasonable accommodations for psychiatric disability.
• Assist the individual supported in conjunction with other team members in developing goals in areas of need and assist in developing person-centered plans.
• Actively function as a member of the interdisciplinary health care team to provide the highest quality of care to the individual.
• Communicate needs and progress of the person supported to supervisor and other professionals as requested.
• Engage in various skill-building activities such as learning how to maintain stable housing, bill paying, cleaning, organizing belongings, building social skills, locating improved housing situations, teaching the individual to identify and prepare healthy foods according to cultural and personal preferences of the individual served and his/her medical needs.
• Documental encounters and contacts made on behalf of people we support; complete and submit billing documentation as appropriate; maintain comprehensive files.
• Maintain positive working relationships within the communities served, including individuals, families, staff, monitoring and licensing agencies, organizations, and funders.
• Develop relationships and referral resources in the communities supported by the Mobile Clinic.
• Provide support as needed to meet the emotional, physical, and medical needs of each person supported.
• Facilitate person-centered, effective, positive relationships with people receiving services using positive approaches that promote self determination in all areas of life.
• Attend regular staff meetings and other required meetings.
Convey observations and key issues to supervisor on an on-going basis.
Maintain all required training by attending and actively participating in meetings and all required trainings.
Maintain certification in all agency, state and federal training requirements.
• Assist new staff and/or current staff with orientation, mentoring, and training.
• Demonstrate knowledge of and comply with all agency policies and procedures.
• Follow service definition guidelines for services being provided.
• Complete all other relevant responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor.
Additional Information (If Applicable): Schedule: This is a PRN position.
Shift coverage on an as-needed basis.
Education We're Looking For: High School Diploma (Required) Certifications We're Looking For: North Carolina Driver License (Valid) - NC Division of Motor Vehicles, Qualified Peer Support Specialist (NCCPSS) - State of North Carolina Experience We're Looking For: Target Weekly Hours: 0 Monarch is an Equal Opportunity Employer Monarch offers opportunities as diverse as the people we support and the communities we serve.
Monarch is an equal opportunity employer and we are firmly committed to supporting and celebrating all forms of diversity.
Monarch does not accept paper applications.
Any person with a disability who needs any reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act to apply for a position or otherwise to participate in Monarch job search or selection process, should contact HR@MonarchNC.
org or call (704) 986-1550.
This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties and responsibilities to be performed.
You will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other duties and responsibilities upon the request of a supervisor.
This job description is subject to revision at the discretion of Monarch.