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type: 'JobPosting'
title: 'Peer Specialist II (Part-time) - Beaver Crisis Services'
url: 'https://pepper.socialhost.dev/job/23362538/peer-specialist-ii-part-time-beaver-crisis-services/'
job_id: '23362538'
organization: 'SFX Demo'
location: 'Beaver Falls, PA'
employment_type: 'Part-Time'
date_posted: '2025-12-10T21:50:13.147Z'
date_modified: '2026-05-18T09:14:26.47Z'
---

# Peer Specialist II (Part-time) - Beaver Crisis Services

- Location: Beaver Falls, PA
- Employment type: Part-Time
- Category: Behavioral Health
- Shift: Variable
- Business unit: ST Health Western Psychiatric Hospital
- Pay: $18.79–$28.03 / hr
- Organization: SFX Demo
- Posted: 2025-12-10T21:50:13.147Z

## Description

Beaver County Crisis Services provides 24/7 mobile crisis response, phone support, and walk-in services to individuals experiencing emotional distress or psychiatric emergencies. Our team delivers compassionate, recovery-oriented care in collaboration with law enforcement, healthcare facilities, and community partners. We are expanding our mobile capacity and integrating peer support to enhance accessibility, responsiveness, and person-centered outcomes.

Peer Specialist II are individuals with lived experience who provide non-clinical support as part of the treatment team. They model recovery principles, educate staff, and help clients overcome barriers and triggers in inpatient or outpatient settings

**Responsibilities:**

- Provide feedback to clients, families, and clinical staff as appropriate

- Support clients in setting recovery goals, identifying barriers, and developing strategies

- Help clients connect with natural supports and community resources

- Advocate for clients in meetings, voicing their perspectives and goals

- Accompany clients to community activities and provide follow-up support (1:1, group, phone, virtual, or mobile)

- Facilitate recovery and wellness groups; offer individual support

- Monitor goal progress and provide ongoing feedback

- Assist with crisis planning, including WRAPs and mental health directives

- Complete documentation and paperwork as required

- Deliver advanced services in various settings (program, community, home)

- Educate clients to support informed decision-making

- Share personal recovery experience and apply recovery tools (WRAP, Personal Medicine, etc.)

- Teach life skills (e.g., problem-solving, money/time management, transportation)

- Maintain professional certification and CEUs

- Build relationships with community providers and treatment agencies

- Provide non-clinical services and coordinate with clinical staff as needed

- High School Diploma or equivalent.

- Certified Peer Specialist or Certified Recovery Specialist certification is required.

- Demonstrated leadership qualities and mentorship skills.

- Minimum of one year of Peer Specialist experience

- OR applicable employment experience within last 3 years, maintained at least 12 months of successful full or part-time paid or voluntary work experience

- OR within last 3 years, obtained at least 24 credit hours of post-secondary education and have related, supervised work or volunteer experience, as approved the by the Pennsylvania Certification Board (PCB).

- Have lived experience in one or more of the following areas: mental health, substance use disorder, the recovery process and willing to share experiences to the benefit of clients/patients served.

- Basic understanding of mental health, wellness, and resiliency.

- Progressed in own recovery and have basic understanding of the recovery principles: Hope, Personal Responsibility, Empowerment Skills, Self-Advocacy, Educational Opportunities, and the importance of using personal and community supports.

- Able to articulate to clients/patients, families, and to interested stakeholders that peer support is a non-clinical service to promote recovery and wellness.

- Proficient with Office 365 applications, e.g., Microsoft Word, Outlook, Teams, etc.

**Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:**

- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)

- Certified Peer Specialist

- Comprehensive Crisis Management (CCMC)

- Driver's License

- Act 31 Child Abuse Reporting with renewal

- Act 33 with renewal

- Act 34 with renewal

- Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal

**ST Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran**

## Apply

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