Certified Peer Recovery Specialist

Certified Peer Specialist for our Denver Clinic 2822 E. Colfax 80206Peer Certification RequiredThe successful candidate will provide assistance, support, peer counseling, case management, and advocacy for program patients, identifying life choices and helping them overcome obstacles to achieving their goals. Focusing on the patients’ strengths, the Peer Specialist will promote personal growth, development, and recovery. Provides individual and group peer counseling and support, drawing on common experiences as a peer, to validate patients’ experiences and to provide guidance and encouragement to patients to take responsibility and actively participate in their own recovery.Welcome and provide engagement and orientation to incoming patients including review of overall program philosophy and operations.Actively participates, collaborates, and contributes to the program to promote a team culture in which each patient's point of view, experiences, and preferences are recognized, understood and respected, and in which patients self-determination and decision-making in service planning are maximized and supported.Helps patients identify, understand, and combat stigma and discrimination associated with, addiction, mental illness and homelessness and develop strategies to reduce self-stigma. Helps other team members to identify and understand culture-wide stigma and discrimination against people with substance use disorders, mental illness, and homelessness and works to develop strategies to address stigma within the team. Serves as a liaison between team communities such as self-help groups and drop-in centers.Maintains and ensures confidentiality of all patients information.Provides information and assists patients in skill-building activities, including Wellness Recovery and Action Planning (WRAP), goal setting, and problem-solving.Solicits, listens and responds to client feedback about services.Attends and participates in formal and informal staff meetings, and addresses patients and program issues. Completes all necessary documentation.Participates in performance assessment activities through data collection and by facilitating access to program patients. Monitors patient needs through regular contact, and assists the team in crisis intervention.Organizes and facilitates social activities including creating and distributing event flyers to clients and staff. Social activities include office-based client gatherings/potlucks, office-based process groups, and skill-building field trips in the community.A minimum of 50% of work time is spent in direct client care (including face to face appointments, case management via phone, advocacy and linkages with external support in the community)Maintains a work environment that is marked by respect for others; that values inclusiveness, and that fosters cooperation and teamwork.Performs other duties as assigned by management. Fulltime M-F 11:30 am to 8:00 pm or 3:30 pm to Midnight (1/2 hour meal break)$18 - $20/hr. plus shift differential for non-traditional hoursBenefitsAccrued PTO and Sick time 11 Paid Holidays per calendar year401K