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Use Your Recovery to Help others!
Seeking a very special Peer Support Specialist
The purpose of the Peer Support Specialist is to provide support to individuals in recovery and assist with engagement and retention in HOPES services through Peer-to-Peer Support, Community Engagement and Team-based Care.
The Peer Support Specialist supports others in recovery from a substance use or behavioral health disorder. The Peer Support Specialist serves as a role model, a mentor, advocate and motivator to recovering individuals in order to engage, retain and help prevent relapse and promote long-term recovery. This is a non-clinical role.
Northern Nevada HOPES is a community health and wellness center serving the Northern Nevada area. We are a non-profit community health center located in a historic and quaint area of downtown Reno, Nevada. Our expert care teams provide integrated medical and wellness services to individuals and families in our community. We welcome everyone, and meet them wherever they are, providing a safe and accepting place to access comprehensive, patient-centered healthcare services. Comprehensive, integrated care is the cornerstone of the patient-centered medical home; Northern Nevada HOPES has a robust offering of services and collaborates with other service providers in the community to ensure our patients have a comprehensive, well-rounded program to meet their individual health and wellness needs. The medical home model holds promise as a way to improve health care in America by transforming how primary care is organized and delivered. At HOPES we understand there are many determinants of health and that a range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors influence health.
Named one of the Best Places to Work in Northern Nevada for 2015, 2018 and 2019 we offer the same attention to ensuring our employees have work/life balance and the opportunity to grow and develop their careers. We offer a second-to-none benefits package (where employee health, vision, dental and basic life insurance is free of charge for full-time employees and prorated premiums for part-time employees), very competitive compensation, generous paid time off, and a chance to partner with amazing care providers to changes lives. Check out our AMAZING benefits program at https://www.nnhopes.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HOPES-Benefits-Overview-23-24.pdf.
At HOPES, all employees serve as ambassadors to our patients and the community. Your co-workers at HOPES are one of the many contributing factors to HOPES being named one of Northern Nevada's Best Places to Work three times in the last five years. To learn more about the Key Accountabilities of HOPES Squad members, take a look at https://www.nnhopes.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/HOPES-Squad-KAAs.pdf.
Fit is as important as function at HOPES. We enjoy a VERY special collaborative culture that thrives on open communication and valuing everyone's contribution to the team. We are as unique as the populations we serve! However, we all agree on our dedication to optimizing wellness for the people we serve and understand we ALL are responsible for the mission of Northern Nevada HOPES.
To find out more about HOPES, visit our website at https://www.nnhopes.org/. We have a great mission and have been inducted into the Best Places to Work Hall of Fame. All our careers are listed on our Careers page at https://www.nnhopes.org/about/careers/.If you'd like to learn more about what HOPES is doing in the community, sign up for our newsletter at https://www.nnhopes.org/newsletter/.
We are a Drug-Free Workplace and utilize E-Verify to confirm work eligibility.
