Forensic Peer & Recovery Support Specialist

Hope Lives-Vive la Esperanza is looking for an outgoing, creative individual to provide forensic peer recovery support services to model recovery principles, help create recovery plans, and enhance functioning to assist members in community integration, becoming more self- sufficient, and learning/improving vocational skills.

This position will work out of the Navajo County Detention Center with transitioning individuals, reporting to a supervisor in Flagstaff and traveling to Flagstaff as required.

Hope Lives is a forensic-based peer-run organization, offering support to both members and employees. Working in an upbeat, collaborative environment, ideas are always welcome and change is good. All employees have access to our Employee Assistance Program. Employer-paid benefits for full time employees include medical, dental, vision, life, 13 holidays annually, 16 days PTO in the first year (with separate sick time accrual), and more!

*Job Specific: Must have been a Behavioral Health Services recipient with sufficient recovery and system experience to coach, mentor, guide, and support others.

Must have lived experience of incarceration, and lived experience of substance use, and/or lived experience or immediate family member with experience with suicide.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Facilitating and modeling recovery principles while fulfilling HLVLE’s mission statement and pursuing the HLVLE vision
• Assisting recipients in identifying and articulating personal recovery goals
• Assisting recipients in determining the objectives the recipients needs to take in order to reach their recovery goals
• Assisting recipients in determining "problems"
• Determining interventions based on recipients’ recovery/life goals
• Observing progress recipients make toward meeting objectives
• Understanding and utilizing specific interventions necessary to assist recipients in meeting their recovery goals
• Leading as well as teaching recipients how to facilitate recovery dialogues
• Assisting recipients in setting up and sustaining self-help (mutual support) groups
• Assisting recipients in creating a recovery plan
• Utilizing and teaching problem solving techniques with individuals and groups
• Teaching recipients how to identify and combat negative self-talk
• Teaching recipients how to identify and overcome fears
• Teaching and facilitating workshops/classes
• Supporting the vocational choices recipients make and assisting them in overcoming job-related anxiety and/or barriers to maintaining employment (peer coaching)
• Assisting recipients in building social skills in the community that will enhance job acquisition and tenure
• Attending treatment team meetings to promote recipients’ use of self-directed recovery tools
• Teaching and role modeling the value of every recipient's recovery experience
• Assisting the recipients in obtaining decent and affordable housing of his or her choice in the most integrated, independent, and least intrusive or restrictive environment
• Modeling effective coping techniques and self-help strategies
• Continuing to develop and share recovery-oriented material
• Attending continuing education, seminars, meetings, and in-service training when offered for professional development
• Providing and advocating for effective recovery-based services
• Assisting recipients in obtaining services that suit that recipient's recovery needs
• Informing recipients about community and natural supports and how to utilize these in the recovery process
• Assisting recipients in developing empowerment skills through self-advocacy and the use of human experience language to combat stigma

COMMUNICATION:

• Maintains and follows effective communication with supervisor, recipients, coworkers and other community members
• Maintains a professional demeanor at all times
• Checks deadlines on incoming requests and puts preliminary work in play

KEY DUTIES:

• Maintains and follows satisfactory punctuality and attendance as set on the work schedule
• Maintains contract encounter objectives
• Documents billable activities that encourage, assist and support recipients in expressing their perspectives, including assessment, service planning and service delivery, which demonstrate Hope Lives-Vive la Esperanza’s focus on diverse/integrated community transformation
• Transports recipients using HLVLE vehicles as directed

Physical Requirements:

• Sitting for long periods
• Standing for long periods
• Lifting up to 30 lbs
• Typing
• Driving
• Kneeling
• Bending/Stooping
• Traveling
• Alternative work hours (may be between 6:00am and 6:00pm, some weekends)
• Working on a computer 2-4 hours a day

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS (Skills necessary to meet minimum performance standards of the position)

• MUST BE ABLE TO BE CERTIFIED AS A FORENSIC, PEER, OR RECOVERY SUPPORT SPECIALIST
• MUST BE AT LEAST 21 YEARS OF AGE PER STATE REGULATIONS
• MUST HAVE VALID ARIZONA DRIVER LICENSE WITH NO RESTRICTIONS
• MUST HAVE CLEAN 39-MONTH MOTOR VEHICLE RECORD

Education:* HS/GED REQUIRED*

• Must provide copy of HS Diploma/College Degree OR *Sealed, Certified* GED/HS/College Transcripts before Hire

Job Experience:* _No Experience Required*_

Must have effective interpersonal skills; good written and verbal communication skills; must have level of emotional maturity that reflects appreciation of individuals from all ethnic, racial and/or religious backgrounds; values must reflect compassion and concern for others as well as the belief that all individuals, regardless of their circumstances or the severity of their disabilities, deserve respect and dignity; sound judgment; ability to follow directions; time management skills; must be able to share common experiences with behavioral health recipients; reliable transportation a must.

Computer Skills: General Internet; Basic Data Entry; Microsoft: Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Google: Mail, Calendar, Drive

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bilingual (English/Spanish)
• Experience with Credible billing software

Work Location:

• One location - Navajo County Detention Center

Work Remotely

• No

Hope Lives-Vive la Esperanza is an Equal Opportunity employer. The agency does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), religion, national origin, sexual orientation, transgender status, age, family or marital status, genetic information, military or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status, activity, or characteristic.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $20.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 403(b) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply

Work Location: In person

Salary : $20