Opportunityalliance
PATH Peer Navigator
South Portland, ME · Part-time
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LeadershipCommunicationMicrosoft Office
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About the role
- Alliance is "Helping People Reach for a Brighter Future".
- Alliance (TOA) is a dynamic, results-focused Community Action Agency providing approximately 50 integrated community-based and clinical programs serving more than 20,000 people annually throughout the state of Maine.
- Through an extensive array of services, TOA provides opportunities for individuals to stabilize fragile situations and then works with them to achieve self-sufficiency.
Responsibilities
- Alliance works with people to build better lives and stronger communities.
- We provide advocacy, leadership, and support to identify the goals and address the needs of individuals, families, and communities.
- Mission: The Opportunity Alliance works with people to build better lives and stronger communities.
Requirements
- Provisional CIPSS Certification required within 12 months of hire date.
- Ability to navigate traditional and non-traditional systems.
- Demonstrates ability to utilize strengths-based approach to problem solving.
- Good communication skills and an ability to establish rapport with consumers, family members, caregivers and other resource providers.
- Computer proficiency required with ability to demonstrate basic computer skills.
- Skill in using Microsoft Office and email is required.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Demonstrates high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Must be able to successfully pass a criminal background, child protective service check & sex offender check.
- Peer Navigators will also attend all Intentional Peer Support co- reflections and trainings as required by the State of Maine certification process set forth by SAMHS.
- Intentional Peer Support Specialist Certification: Ability to maintain certification (through attending quarterly required co-reflections, attaining required continuing education credits and successful fidelity review.) Ability to provide support according to the values and steps of the process required. Provisional CIPSS Certification required within 12 months of hire date.
- High school diploma or equivalent required. Additional lifelong learning relevant to job preferred.
- Is receiving or has received services and supports related to the diagnosis of a mental illness or co-occurring substance use disorder, and is willing to self-identify and connect on this basis with peers and in the community. Must be in active recovery, and willing to self-identify and connect on this basis with peers and in the community, demonstrating, a keen awareness of the stages of change and their individual wellness practices, and how each relates to their individual recovery process.
- Flexible and resourceful, ability to advocate for self and others, ability to identify resources in the community to support recovery.
- Models strengths-based interactions and treats all individuals with respect. Demonstrates ability to utilize strengths-based approach to problem solving.
- Good communication skills and an ability to establish rapport with consumers, family members, caregivers and other resource providers. Willingness to further develop communication skills (i.e. written, verbal, and computer.) Demonstrated ability to keep focus on continual learning and moving towards positive goals rather than away from what is not wanted.
- Computer proficiency required with ability to demonstrate basic computer skills. Skill in using Microsoft Office and email is required. There will be some simple data entry.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of volunteers, fellow workers, communities, resources and cultures. Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Demonstrates high degree of accuracy and attention to detail. Plans and utilizes time in an efficient manner.
- Must not be on the state or federal suspension and disbarment list.
Nice to have
- High school diploma or equivalent required.
Compensation
- Alliance (TOA) is a dynamic, results-focused Community Action Agency providing approximately 50 integrated community-based and clinical programs serving more than 20,000 people annually throughout the state of Maine.
Benefits
- Our benefits include but are not limited to:
- Generous paid time off accrual
- Excellent medical benefits at very reasonable cost
- Dental and Vision insurance options
- Agency paid basic life insurance and STD & LTD disability insurances
- 403(b) retirement with a generous agency match (all employees are eligible)
- Tuition Reimbursement - offered once per year through an
- To learn more about our benefits please visit, https://www.opportunityalliance.org/explore-our-benefits
Company info
- Peer Navigators will work with the PATH members, Peer Navigators and Case Managers as part of a service team.
- As part of the service team, Peer Navigators attend weekly program staff meetings, supervision meetings and participate in other leadership meetings as necessary.
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