We are North Idaho’s premier provider of integrated medical, dental and behavioral health services. Our amazing care teams deliver world-class healthcare utilizing a patient directed, community-focused approach. Providing high quality, affordable Healthcare from the Heart is our passion. Our mission is to deliver a healthcare experience that provides hope, inspires change, and extends life for our patients and our community.

Top reasons to join our team:

• Our employees are mission – minded
• We are passionate about providing excellent patient care
• Community-focused
• Committed to a fun and supportive team environment
• We offer high-quality competitive employee benefits

The Peer Support Specialist is an individual who is grounded in their own mental health recovery. They work one on one to support other individuals on their journey through the recovery process. Through utilizing their own personal recovery experiences, peer supports work towards developing authentic peer-to-peer relationships. Building on the foundation of relationship and shared experience, peer supports empower their peers to set and reach their own goals for recovery. They offer support in learning and practicing new skills, building natural supports and resources in the community, engaging in their own self-directed recovery process, modeling recovery and resiliency tools and skills, and supporting them in advocating for themselves across environments.

• The position requires a minimum of certification as a Peer Support Specialist through the State of Idaho and high school diploma or GED and lived experience.
• Successful completion of driver’s privileges for Heritage Health vehicles is required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required:

• This position requires an extensive amount of autonomy and the ability to perform well under pressure and with crisis situations.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Provide consistency and support to promote personal progress and accountability.

2. Model personal responsibility, self-advocacy, and hopefulness by selectively using self-disclosure in telling one’s personal recovery story and demonstrating how a belief in oneself is maintained.

3. Empower clients to problem solve and fi nd their own solutions.

4. Teach clients how to navigate a variety of community based services and organizations.

5. Assist clients in identifying strengths and readiness to actively pursue recovery goals.

6. Use a variety of different methods, tailored to the client, to move through the process of setting and reaching recovery goals.

7. Maintenance of electronic client fi les, including completion of progress notes and progress reports in a timely manner.

8. Fully participate in mandatory clinical supervision meetings on a weekly basis.

9. Compliance with confidentiality policy as it applies to protection of clients’ rights

10. Collaborate with all members of the treatment team in regards to the client’s strengths and recovery goals.

11. Follow all mandated reporting requirements for children and vulnerable adults.

12. Strict adherence to Idaho Certified Peer Support Specialist Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.

13. Maintain a nonjudgmental approach, use effective listening, eye contact, professionalism, and positive interactions at all times.

If assigned to Homeless Outreach, the following job duties will also apply: