FACT Peer Specialist

• Assists individuals served in the development of their own plans of growth and development. i.e. utilizing the Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP).
• Provides peer coaching, wellness recovery, and support services in alignment with the FACT model, based on Assertive Community Treatment best practices.
• Participates in daily organizational meetings.
• Advocates for persons served to ensure acquisition of necessary social services to include activities of daily living, including medical, dental, legal, housing, and entitlements and documents the effectiveness of the service and the person’s satisfaction.
• Works collaboratively with individuals served to identify and support linkages to community resources and trainings: educational, vocational, social, cultural, mutual self- help groups, etc., that supports the person’s chosen goals and interests.
• Provides side-by-side assistance to persons served in all aspects of daily living (i.e., assist with housekeeping, budgeting, grocery shopping, etc.).
• Provides recovery support services to increase an individual’s social and interpersonal activities (i.e. supportive coaching, social skills development, side-by-side coaching, planning social/leisure time activities, trauma informed care).
• Assist individuals served to develop problem-solving skills so that they can respond to challenges that may arise in their recovery process.
• Promote the development of self-efficacy through role-modeling strength-based recovery.

Qualifications

• In order to be considered candidates must have a high school diploma or equivalent and must have previous personal experience as a recipient of mental health services is required.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Experience working with persons with severe and persistent mental illness preferred.
• Obtain, or work towards obtaining, certification as a peer specialist within one year of employment.
• Strong communication skills are essential and this individual must be able to interact appropriately with internal and external customers, including families, caregivers, community service providers, supervisory staff and other department professionals.
• Each FACT team member contributes to the completeness and confidentiality of clinical records by ensuring documentation, paperwork and system entries meet internal and external guidelines for content, accuracy and timeliness.
• Each member of the FACT team must meet MHRC/RBHS vehicle driver requirements, to include a valid Florida Driver's License, automobile insurance coverage equaling $200,000 and no more than eight points on their license for any combination of violations.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Programs, email, and the use of the Internet is required.

Position Details: Full time or Part time Shifts Available: Monday through Friday (rotating weekends, on-call, and holidays)

Renaissance Behavioral Health Systems and Mental Health Resource Center are Equal Opportunity Employers. Background screening and clearance through the Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse is required for all positions: https://info.flclearinghouse.com [https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https://info.flclearinghouse.com/&data=05|02|Jake.Shanahan@ahca.myflorida.com|4b82b03a51ad4f4b95a108de4232c2f0|583c5f193b644cedb59ee8649bdc4aa6|0|0|639020982980038846|Unknown|TWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ==|0|||&sdata=xZdgpZEJ7lRUp18fRP71qweuFp0i1gIxOp6MWfK8zlM=&reserved=0]

• Thank you for your interest in joining the team at Mental Health Resource Center and Renaissance Behavioral Health Systems.
• We offer a variety of opportunities in the behavioral health and social services fields.
• We have locations in Jacksonville and throughout Florida.
• Employees work together and support one another in a friendly, team-oriented atmosphere that encourages professional growth.
• We offer an ideal workplace for individuals dedicated to providing care and services that reflect our core values of compassion, integrity, and excellence.

• Mental Health Resource Center, Inc. (MHRC) is a nonprofit organization that provides a wide range of behavioral health and social services to the community.
• Included in MHRC’s service array are 24-hour emergency services and inpatient psychiatric services for children, adolescents, and adults.
• Outpatient services include medication management, care coordination, case management, intensive case management team services, counseling, psychosocial rehabilitation, an adult therapeutic family program, state hospital liaison services, mental health court, multidisciplinary forensic teams (MFT), jail-based diversion services, a Co-Responder Program with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, the Link-to-Life suicide prevention program, and services that assist individuals in obtaining benefits such as Social Security Income, Social Security Disability Income, Medicaid, food stamps, and housing.
• In addition, UF Health Jacksonville contracts with MHRC to manage the hospital’s adult inpatient psychiatric unit.
• MHRC also operates eight Florida Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) programs for adults with severe and persistent mental illness, located in Clearwater, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Kissimmee, Rockledge, Tampa, and Winter Haven, as well as a FACT Lite program providing Linking, Advocating, Treating, Transitioning, Empowering & Recovery Support (LATTERS) services in Jacksonville.
• The two FACT teams located in Jacksonville serve residents of Duval, Clay, and Nassau counties.

Renaissance Behavioral Health Systems and Mental Health Resource Center encourage all applicants to take advantage of opportunities for hire, and if internal applicants, transfers, promotions, and advancement, regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, handicap, disability, marital status, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. RBHS and MHRC are Equal Opportunity Employers and Drug Free Workplaces.

Background screening and clearance through the Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse is required for all positions: https://info.flclearinghouse.com [https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https://info.flclearinghouse.com/&data=05|02|Jake.Shanahan@ahca.myflorida.com|4b82b03a51ad4f4b95a108de4232c2f0|583c5f193b644cedb59ee8649bdc4aa6|0|0|639020982980038846|Unknown|TWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ==|0|||&sdata=xZdgpZEJ7lRUp18fRP71qweuFp0i1gIxOp6MWfK8zlM=&reserved=0]