Basic Job Summary: Responsible for assisting clients with their recovery needs daily through the sharing of emotional support.
Qualifications :
- High school diploma or equivalent required.
- Have participated in a Recovery program.
Specific Skills
- Scheduling Peer Support groups as needed
- Communcating with Behavioral Health Team and Providers
- Communicating with clients through meetings, phone calls, and groups
- Complete annual reviews and 90 day reviews with Peer Support Specialists
- Communicated effectively with all staff when needed via daily briefing/debriefing, as well as spreadsheets
- Ensure proper documentation and filing of documents in client's clinical chart and case file if applicable
- Maintain awareness and knowledge of necessary information related to medical appointments, court dated, intakes, GED/educational classes and employments
- Thoroughly understand and explain One Cross Clinic and Procedure/HIPAA
- Report to and fill in when needed as requested by the Behavioral Health Team and Providers
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Complete a release of Information when each client that allows the Peer Support Specialist to access the entire clinical chart
- Successfully complete, maintain, and submit a minimum of six (6) hours of related training or education in each subsequent year
- Provide Peer Support services in an individual and group setting
- Use relevant personal stories to assist clients through experience
- Serve as a role model to the client
- Encourage client voice and choice development and implementation of plans
Support client by:
- attending team meeting on behalf of the client or at the request of the client
- accompanying the client to meetings upon the client's request
- empowering the client to have the confidence to be a self-advocate
- help providers or other individuals understand the importance of integrating client voice and choice in services and support within a system of care
- promote socialization, recovery, self-advocacy preservation, and enhancement of community living skills for clients
- conduct scheduled phone calls/meetings with clients in accordance with MAT phase program requirements
- complete documentation of each attempt or actual contact in the EMR system. Peer Support Specialist may conduct program intakes and completion of intake documents with clients.
- Actively participate in the Quick Response Team or QRT. This is a team of interdisciplinary community partners that initiated in person contact within 24-72 hours following an opioid overdose or opioid related complication and provide ongoing follow-up and in person contact whenever possible through home visits, in-reach jails and prisons, emergency departments and other locations that the need for QRT services is identified. This will require some after work hours and flexibility (a must).
- Engage with individuals who have experienced an opioid overdose or related complication.
- Provide assertive linkages to harm reduction, evidence-based treatment interventions and recovery services, which support multiple pathways to recovery including the use of FDA -MOUD.
- Provide assertive engagement and relationship building to educate family members and the larger community about addiction, available evidence-based resources for prevention, harm reduction, treatment and recovery and the way in which QRT can assist individual and families.
- Complete all documentation requirements for QRT tracking as well as the GPRA.
Physical Demands:
- Light physical effort (lift/carry up to 20 lbs.).
- Regularly exposed to risk of blood borne pathogens.
- Exposed to unpleasant elements.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $14.00 - $28.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- No weekends
People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply
Application Question(s):
- Have you participated in a recovery program or do you have experience with a 12-step program?
Work Location: In person