Peer Specialist - Mobile Response Team
Company: DESC
Location: Seattle
Posted on: January 26, 2023
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Job Description:
Job Title: MRT Peer Specialist
Pay Range: $31.52 - $34.81 per hour
Days Off: TBD
Shift & Schedule:
9am - 5pm M-F, eventually will break into the following shifts:
Day: 7am-3:30pm; Swing: 3pm-11:30pm; Night: 11pm-7:30am
Location: Variable, Seattle, WA
Insurance Benefits: Medical (no premiums/payroll deductions for
employee coverage), Dental, Life, Long-term Disability
Other Benefits: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Flexible
Spending Account (FSA), ORCA card subsidy, Paid Time Off (34 days
per year), Retirement Plan
About DESC:
DESC (Downtown Emergency Service Center) is a nonprofit
organization working to help people with the complex needs of
homelessness, substance use disorders, and serious mental illness
achieve their highest potential for health and well-being through
comprehensive services, treatment, and housing. Our vision is a
community where no person is abandoned, ignored, or experiencing
homelessness.
As the region's leading provider of services to multiply disabled
adults who have experienced chronic homelessness, DESC serves
almost 2,000 people each day. Our integrated service model is
designed to help people secure and maintain appropriate, safe, and
affordable housing. DESC is recognized nationally and regionally as
an innovator in developing solutions to homelessness.
JOB DEFINITION:
The Mobile Response Team (MRT) provides 24/7 mental and behavioral
health services at Health through Housing (HtH) facilities and
targeted Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) sites across King
County. The primary goal of the program is to provide in the moment
crisis behavioral health services and time-limited behavioral
health case management via mobile intensive response teams for the
purpose of assisting individuals in becoming aware of behavioral
health and other community service options. The MRT is a mobile
interdisciplinary team consisting of certified peer counselors,
behavioral health case managers, substance use disorder
professionals, mental health professionals and Narcan waivered
medical staff.
Peer Specialists will work with an integrated team responding to
crises, meet with residents to assist in their recovery and
success, lead recovery groups, and participate incase consultation
and treatment planning.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Strong applicants are able to demonstrate the ability to be
positive in their empathetic responses to all persons; understand
the value of meaningful and deep client engagement; have the
potential to acquire the necessary knowledge, attitudes and skills
of an effective crisis worker; and value a non-judgmental response
to sensitive issues. Candidates should be able to accept feedback
and work in a highly collaborative and potentially stressful
environment.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those
that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the
essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be
made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the
essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the
employee will be required to sit, drive, walk, stand, communicate
with other employees and vendors, is required to lift and carry
items weighing up to 10 pounds and to operate computer hardware
systems. Specific vision abilities required by the job include
close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision,
depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Considerable
stress may occur. Employee will be working both indoors and
outdoors in all types of weather.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
DESC is committed to diversity in the workplace, and promotes equal
employment opportunities for all staff members and applicants. The
Agency will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for
employment on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, gender, sexual
orientation, age, national origin, marital status, or the presence
of any sensory, mental or physical disability in any employment
practice, unless based on a bona fide occupational qualification.
Minorities and veterans are encouraged to apply.
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