Family Peer Support Specialist - Children, Youth, and Families Mental Health

Job Description

Davis Behavioral Health is seeking a full-time Family Peer Support Specialist (FPSS) to join the Children, Youth, and Families Mental Health team. The Family Peer Support Specialist (FPSS) works closely with families who have children and adolescents with complex mental health needs. They offer hope, guidance, advocacy, and camaraderie for parents and caregivers of children and youth receiving services from mental health, substance use, and related services systems. They bring expertise based on their own experience parenting a child or youth with social, emotional, behavioral, or substance use challenges, as well as specialized training, to support other parents and caregivers. Peer support is provided through face-to-face support groups, phone calls, or individual meetings. They link families to local resources and supports, provide family advocacy, and facilitate wraparound services.

Essential Job Functions

The Children, Youth, and Families FPSS is responsible for the following job duties :

• Meet agency productivity standard.
• Maintain documentation as required by agency standards.
• Other duties and responsibilities and needed and assigned.

In addition to the essential job functions outline above, the following responsibilities are assigned to your specific position

Compensation

The hourly rate for this position is outlined below :

Schedule

This is a full-time position and is normally assigned to weekdays. This schedule may require three evenings per week. DBH reserves the right to require overtime, weekend work, and / or assignment to evening or night shifts, depending upon operational need, some in and out of state travel may be required.

The proposed schedule for this position is :

Work schedules at DBH are established to meet the needs of our clients and the agency. Program Supervisors, with the approval of Program Directors, determine the specific schedules for their assigned departments and have the authority to ask employees to work a different shift and / or in a different location on a short-term or permanent basis to meet the departments' needs.

Required Qualifications

Experience

Education

Certification / Licensure

Certification as a FPSS must be completed as soon as possible, but no later than 6 months after hire.

Training

Skills / Abilities / Qualifications

Qualifications

A clean driving record is also required to utilize the DBH vehicle fleet.

Skills & Abilities

The following skills, abilities, and qualifications are essential for this position :

Work Environment

The usual work environment may include indoor and outdoor settings, various employment settings, other programs of DBH, and meetings with other agencies located in the community.

Benefits

Part-time positions at DBH are not eligible to participate in the agency's benefits program.

All employees at DBH are eligible to utilize the agency's robust Employee Assistance Program (EAP) through Intermountain LiVe Well and participate in perks that are available to all employees.

Davis Behavioral Health is an equal opportunity employer.

DBH Criminal Background Check & Drug Screening Disclaimer

Davis Behavioral Health is a drug-free workplace and requires all employees to successfully pass a pre-employment drug screening. DBH will not hire individuals currently using illegal drugs or abusing alcohol; therefore, making employment at DBH conditional upon successfully passing pre-employment drug screening by providing a valid sample. Candidates who are offered employment are required to report for a drug screen at an Intermountain WorkMed location within 24 hours of being requested to do so by the DBH Human Resources Department.

Davis Behavioral Health works with Federal grants and must comply with the Federal drug laws, including no use of medical marijuana.

Further, all employees at DBH must successfully pass a pre-employment criminal background check as part of DBH's licensing agreement with the State of Utah. Failure to pass either screening will result in the termination of any job offer submitted and / or employment for any individual who has started employment while the criminal background screening is in process. Pending and / or open charges will likely impact a candidate's ability to pass the pre-employment criminal background screening.