Peer Support Specialist

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: $15.00 - $28.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

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

Salary : $15 - $28