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CORAS Wellness and Behavioral Health & IRON... is Hiring a PEER SPECIALIST Near Greenwood, DE
LOOKING FOR A REWARDING CAREER SUPPORTING OTHERS?
CORAS WELLNESS AN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NEEDS A PEER SPECIALIST!
FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME POSITIONS AVAILABLE FLEXIBLE SCHEDULES AVAILABLE
SHIFTS AVAILABLE: 8A-4P, 4P-12A, 12A-8A
Perks and Benefits
- Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
- 401k, Life & Disability Insurance
- Competitive Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Paid Training
- ADVANCEMENT OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE
- WE OFFER COMPETITIVE WAGES!
Do you have a passion for helping people?
We are currently seeking qualified and compassionate candidates who enjoy a rewarding career working with adults with mental health and or substance abuse living in a residential group home to fill the role of DIRECT CARE PROFESSIONAL AND PEER SPECIALIST (Full-time or Part-time)
Education and Experience
- Specific peer specialist training will be provided
- Background in mental health or substance abuse recovery
Professional Credentials/Certifications
- CPR/First Aid Certification
- Driver’s License and clean Motor Vehicle Record
- Peer Certification (Preferred, not required. Career Development available)
Responsibilities
- Involved in the implementation, where applicable, of Common Ground.
- Involved in providing hospital visitation, to individuals who have been admitted.
- Answers a 24/7 warm line that and provide support to individuals served in times of need.
- Attend interdisciplinary team meetings
- Attends the treatment team of all individuals for whom s/he is providing service and any individual that has been interested in receiving peer support
- Follows three guiding principles
- Learning versus helping
- Relationship versus the individual
- Hope and possibility versus fear
- Works with individuals served to build connections that promote recovery side by side with service recipients to help them make connections and to work through anxiety and stress.
- Responsible for understanding the individual’s view of the world around them and how they perceive themselves in it.
- Offers relationships to service recipients that are based on mutual understanding and responsibility.
- Attends regular peer specialist training and meetings.
- Completes tasks assigned by the team leader on the daily schedule.
- Driving to and from the consumer's home, a clean driving record is necessary.
Who We Are: CORAS Wellness and Behavioral Health, an affiliate of Apis Services is a nonprofit
CORAS = Championing Optimal Recovery Advancing Self-Sufficiency.
CORAS Wellness & Behavioral Health provides a nurturing, caring, and safe environment for individuals in Delaware seeking MAT, Substance Abuse Treatment, and Family Planning services.
Apis Services and its family of affiliates provide supporting services to an array of non-profit, public charity organizations including, but not limited to, human services, behavior health, and intellectual development disability agencies. The organizations that we support are expanding rapidly and continue to further their missions by providing person-directed, community-based services to individuals and their family members living with behavioral health, intellectual, and/or development disabilities.
Apis Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Job Summary
Full Time
$78k-100k (estimate)
05/07/2024
05/16/2024
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