Responsibilities:Supervisory Responsibilities:
Provides mentoring and guidance to all ACCS Peer Support Staff.
Directly Supervises Peer Support Staff on assigned ACCS team in partnership with the Integrated Team Director
Essential Functions of the Position:
Collaborate with Integrated Team Directors in the provision of supervision and support to
Peer Support Staff and in conjunction with Integrated Team Directors provide
supplemental coaching to Peer Support Staff who are struggling to demonstrate basic
competencies or who are interested in taking additional steps towards career
development.
Provide direct support to individuals who receive ACCS services.
Attend Integrated Team team meeting weekly in order to provide formal training or
consultation regarding the implementation of best practices to promote engagement,
empowerment, and recovery, and to model behaviors and attitudes consistent with a
recovery-oriented culture in which each Person's point of view, experiences, and
preferences are recognized, understood, and respected, and in which Persons’ self-
determination and decision-making in treatment planning are maximized and supported.
Facilitate Integrated Team efforts to implement wellness management and recovery
strategies, such as Hearing Voices Network groups, Alternatives to Suicide Groups,
Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP), Whole Health Action Management
(WHAM), Peer Addiction; Substance Recovery supports, psychiatric advance
directives, stress management techniques, etc.
Conduct a weekly meeting of Peer Support Staff on assigned Integrated Team to provide
group supervision, training, and consultation and to disseminate and process
administrative information and updates with Peer Support Staff.
Collaborate with Integrated Team Director to ensure that recruitment and employment
practices promote a culture of respect, and support the retention of people with lived
experience in all peer roles on the assigned ACCS Integrated Team.
Collaborate with Integrated Team Director to ensure that all trainings, supervision, and
supports provided to team staff are trauma-informed, culturally-competent, recovery-
oriented, and promote a culture of respect of people with lived experience and to provide
all ACCS staff with training regarding Peer Support Staff roles and recovery-oriented
principles and best practices during orientation.
Advise, prepare, and mentor Peer Support Staff in their efforts to provide outreach and
education to stakeholders in order to decrease stigma towards Persons in recovery, to
increase awareness of the possibility of recovery, and to promote the role of Peer Support
Staff.
Provide specialized coaching to Peer Support Staff on assigned Integrated Team
regarding the provision of support and advocacy for issues related to crisis recovery,
psychiatric and medical hospitalizations, medical issues and appointments, housing
issues, legal proceedings, employment, community integration, in addition to any other
life and care transitions as they occur.
Coordinate team efforts to implement “Environment Matters” initiatives that are geared
to creating trauma-informed, recovery orientated spaces for Person’s served and staff.
Other responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor.
