Easterseals PORT Health·Kinston, North Carolina
Provide coaching, mentoring, and employment services to individuals with mental illness and substance abuse challenges to promote recovery and self-direction. Act as an integrated team member delivering individualized services in community settings and assisting with Person Centered Planning.
At Easterseals PORT Health (ESPH), our mission is rooted in empowering individuals and strengthening communities. As an Employment Peer Mentor, you’ll play a critical role in carrying out that mission by helping people with mental illness, substance abuse and behavioral health challenges and providing services and expertise that professional training cannot replicate. The Employment Peer Mentor is a fully integrated team member who provides highly individualized services in the community and promotes the self determination and shared decision-making abilities of beneficiaries.
This isn’t just a job — you will be influencing change and shaping futures in our shared mission of helping people reach their full potential.
Your Role in Our Mission
Provides coaching, mentoring, and consultation to the individual served to promote recovery, self- advocacy, and self-direction.
Promotes wellness management strategies, which includes delivering manualized interventions (e.g., Wellness Recovery Action Planning or Illness Management and Recovery) and employment services.
Assists people receiving services in developing psychiatric advance directives.
Models recovery values, attitudes, beliefs, and personal action to encourage wellness and resilience.
Provides consultation to team members to assist in understanding of recovery and the role of the Employment Peer Mentor, promoting a culture in which beneficiaries’ points of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected, and integrated into treatment.
Serves as an active member of the employment team, equivalent to other team members, which includes assisting with the Person Centered Planning process.
Supports and empowers the individual to exercise his or her legal rights within the community.
Provides employment services interventions and case coordination as needed.
Prepares and submits documentation accurately and within prescribed time lines.
Participates in peer review.
Successfully participates in the DMH approved IPS training and provide services according to the service definition and IPS Fidelity Model.
Why Join Us?
As a part of our mission, we help our team members embrace their potential, build resilience, and thrive! You will benefit from ongoing professional growth and development as you work alongside leaders of clinical excellence in mental health and substance use services that care about your success.
We also offer a full benefits package for benefits-eligible positions.
What We’re Looking For
A minimum of a High School diploma or equivalent accredited by the appropriate state department of education is required.
Must be a NC Certified Peer Support Specialist, or willing to be certified within 6 months of hire.
Must be or have been a recipient of mental health services.
Must have current, unrestricted, state-appropriate driver’s license and vehicle insurance
Must have reliable transportation that will allow movement throughout the program delivery area.
Employment Peer Mentor works as part of a team and while there is daily office based work the bulk of the work is in the community including the street, homes, shelters, jails and hospitals and services are delivered when and where individuals need them.
Ready to Apply?
Join a team where work isn’t just something you do — it’s a purpose. Bring your expertise to a mission that matters. Apply now at www.eastersealsPORT.com [http://www.eastersealsucp.com/] or send your resume to recruiter@eastersealsPORT.com [recruiter@eastersealsucp.com].
**Voted Raleigh’s Best Nonprofit Organization and Raleigh’s Best Mental Health Services two years in a row!**
Easterseals PORT Health is a trustworthy and compassionate partner, providing exceptional services in disability, mental health, and substance use to help our neighbors live their best lives. Purpose, dedication, and empathy drive our in-person and telehealth service delivery. Our 2,600-member team provides more than 10.2 million hours of meaningful support to 40,200 kids, adults, and families in 11,000 home, facility, and community locations across North Carolina and Virginia.
Easterseals PORT Health is an Inclusive Culture, Different Voices, Embracing Potential, Authentic Self, and Learning and Growing (IDEAL) organization.
Applicants of all abilities are encouraged to apply!
Requires a high school diploma and status as a recipient of mental health services. Must be a NC Certified Peer Support Specialist (or obtain certification within 6 months) and possess a valid driver's license and reliable transportation.
Market context
Behavioral health employers in North Carolina often look for licensed or credentialed clinicians, and this role requires registration with the North Carolina Substance Abuse Professional Certification board. These positions can be competitive because employers may prefer a bachelor’s degree and want candidates who can work within treatment, documentation, and care coordination expectations. Review the AI-summarized requirements and benefits here to save time, and confirm your credential status before applying.
