Family Peer Specialist

Resources For Human Development

$15.50

United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Feb 15, 2025

Family Peer Specialist Job Description

Behavioral Health & Housing Division

Job title	Family Peer Specialist
Reports to	Clinical Director

Position Summary

The RHD Intensive Behavioral Health Services Team (IBHS), a program of Resources for Human Development, Inc. support children, youth and young adults with mental, emotional, and behavioral health needs. These services are offered in their homes, schools and communities. The Family Peer Specialist will provide peer support to children and their families.

Essential Duties and Functions

Complete a Strengths, Needs, Culture discovery for every IBHS family
Engage families in the IBHS process and ensure their voice is a part of treatment planning
Identify and connect families to resources and services
Assist families build a network of natural and community supports
Attend treatment planning, inter-agency and multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) meetings
Utilizing lived-experience, provide support, modeling and coaching during meetings
Utilize Electronic Health Record, myAvatar, to document all youth and family contact via an independent note
Assist with crisis stabilization when needed
Collaborate with School District and community partners (i.e. STEP) in the implementation of IBHS to ensure continuity of care
Attend weekly individual and group supervision as directed
Participate in all mandatory and ongoing trainings specific training requirements for this Division.

Qualifications

High School Diploma or GED
Valid PA driver's license

Personal experience raising a child or family member with behavioral health challenges, the juvenile justice system, and/or children's protective services (i.e., DHS)

Required Skills and Qualities

Possess life experiences that allow them to form healthy working relationships with the adolescent and family as well as team members
Knowledge of community and natural supports which provide children, youth and young adults and families with opportunities to succeed
Ability to develop, manage and maintain relationships with others
Ability to remain understanding, patient, culturally aware and respectful to the child, family, and additional team members
Ability to role model effective behaviors

Working conditions

Special working conditions could cover a range of working outside of conventional 9am-5pm hours to include occasional on-call circumstances of evening and weekend work, working outdoors, working with challenging program participants, and so forth.

Physical requirements

Examples of physical requirements include standing or sitting for extended periods, occasional lifting of light objects (up to 20 pounds), do repetitive tasks with few breaks, requirements to bend, stoop, reach and so forth. The use of arm and/or leg control requires force greater than sedentary, but worker still sits majority of time.

Physical Requirements

Stand or Sit (stationary position)

Walk

Use hands or fingers to handle or feel (operate, activate, prepare, inspect, position)

Climb (stairs/ladders)

Talk/Hear (communicate, converse, convey, express/exchange information)

See (detect, identify, recognize, inspect, assess)

Pushing or Pulling

Repetitive Motion

Reaching (high or low)

Kneel, Stoop, Crouch or Crawl (position self, move)

Reporting Relationships

Family Peer Specialist will report to the Clinical Director