Youth Support Specialist

Title: Youth Support Specialist

Purpose: Utilize your training, lived experience and experiential knowledge to mentor, guide and coach members as he/she works to achieve self-identified recovery and resiliency goals.

Qualifications:

• Must be at least 18 years or older. It is preferred that the specialist be at least 21.
• High School education
• Has had lived experience with SED or SED co-occurring with substance use disorder as a youth (standalone SUD lived experience is not eligible).
• Has been in recovery for a minimum of 1 year.
• Has an active Peer Support Specialist certification.
• Has completed the required Magellan Idaho Youth Support Endorsement training.

Department: Community Work

Supervised by: Team Leader/Program Director/Clinical Supervisor

Positions supervised: None

Location: Client home, designated office space and/or community locations

Job functions, responsibilities and authority:

• Model recovery and share their stories of lived experience to connect and engage youth in the recovery process.
• Youth Support is directed by the youth participating in services and aligns with the specific hopes, goals, strengths and needs of the youth.
• Youth Support Specialists are trauma-informed and use a strength-based framework that emphasizes physical, psychological and emotional safety.
• Support and educate the youth on navigating behavioral health systems.
• Helps the youth to develop a network of support.
• Empowers the youth to develop skills to improve their overall functioning and quality of life.
• All services are provided in a manner that is strength-based, culturally competent and responsive to each member’s individual psychosocial, developmental, and treatment care needs.
• Collaborate with the youth and any other individual selected by the youth to create an individualized recovery plan that reflects the member’s needs and preferences.
• As a minimum, the YSS will collaborate with the member to formally review the recovery plan every 90 calendar days. However, revisions to the recovery plan will be make whenever there are significant changes in the member’s condition, needs, or preferences.
• Complete accurate progress notes documenting all YSS interventions.
• Submit all progress notes, reviews and treatment plans from the previous week Sunday by midnight, along with timesheets and weekly hours forms. Note corrections are due Tuesday at noon. Reviews and recovery plans corrections are due Thursday at noon.
• Allow new employees the opportunity to shadow you while providing direct service as a training tool.
• Any other tasks as assigned
• Attend weekly meetings as assigned
• Comply with any supervision requirements as needed and outlined in Policies and Procedures.
• Report accusations of abuse as outlined in Policies and Procedures #320.
• Maintain all required documentation for employee file including any certificate requirements and a current enhanced background check

Salary Range:

$17/hr-$21/hr