Peer Mentor - EST
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About the role
The Peer Mentor I is responsible for working alongside a multidisciplinary care team to help people recover from an eating disorder. Peer Mentors focus on providing patients with rapport building, skill building, motivational interviewing, and practical support. Outside of patient sessions, Peer Mentors run support groups for patients and members of their support system, and take on additional tasks as needed. Peer Mentors are comfortable with, and passionate about, sharing their lived experience with eating disorder recovery with individuals currently in the process of treatment and recovery.
Responsibilities
- Maintain an up-to-date calendar with availability to enable patients to book sessions.
- Meet with patients for virtual sessions, tailoring session content to the patient's unique needs, actively listening, and holding space for patient experiences.
- Co-facilitate support groups for patients and their supporters.
- Practice responsible self-disclosure, drawing from lived experience to an appropriate degree.
- Consistently complete thorough and timely documentation according to Equip standards for other providers to access, review, and reference.
- Attend and participate in various internal meetings.
- Participate in initial and ongoing training as assigned.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Lived experience with eating disorder recovery with the ability to identify as being in a solid space of recovery from an eating disorder.
- 2+ years of experience working directly with patients in a care setting including, but not limited to, mentorship, social work, or milieu therapy.
- Passion for helping patients and their families as they navigate eating disorder treatment.
- Ability to connect with a range of diverse patients with varying diagnoses and degrees of acuity.
- Passion for evidence-based care and treatment as well as an ability to learn, practice, and continuously develop skills such rapport-building and motivational interviewing.
- Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to build effective, professional, and collaborative relationships both internally and externally.
- Strong organizational and time management skills with a proven track record of meeting assigned goals.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Comfortable working with and learning new technologies.
- Comfortable working in a remote environment including the requirement to be on camera.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and ability to think critically to quickly and accurately work through challenges in a fast-paced, fluid environment.
- Ability to work 2 evenings per week until 8pm local time.
- Working Hours
- Equip allows Patient Scheduling, Monday - Friday, between 8am-8pm in the Patient's timezone.
- Ability to provide 33 hours a week of availability for direct patient care, including groups, new patients and follow-up sessions.
- Ability to commit to working until 8pm two evenings per week (you choose which evenings).
- Ability to commit to a minimum of 20 hours of direct patient care after 2pm in the respective patient care time zone throughout the week.
- Ability to attend mandatory meetings (i.e Supervision, Treatment Huddles, Labs/All Hands, etc.).
- Compensation & Benefits Package
Benefits
Additional Information
About Equip Equip is the leading virtual, evidence-based eating disorder treatment program on a mission to ensure that everyone with an eating disorder can access treatment that works. Created by clinical experts in the field and people with lived experience, Equip builds upon evidence-based treatments to empower individuals to reach lasting recovery. All Equip patients receive a dedicated care team, including a therapist, dietitian, physician, and peer and family mentor. The company operates in all 50 states and is partnered with most major health insurance plans. Learn more about our strong outcomes and treatment approach at www.equip.health. Founded in 2019, Equip has been a fully virtual company since its inception and is proud of the highly-engaged, passionate, and diverse Equipsters that have created Equip's culture. Recognized by Time as one of the most influential companies of 2023, along with awards from Linkedin and Lattice , we are grateful to Equipsters for building a sustainable treatment program that has served thousands of patients and families.
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