Peer Support Specialist- Residential- ASAM

Position Summary:

Turning Point Family Services is looking for a Peer Recovery Specialist who can play a role in advancing our response to substance use and recovery. This is a great opportunity for a passionate peer to contribute to the implementation of Peer Services in the Danville and Martinsville area. This position operates from an office setting as well as throughout the community, working collaboratively with many other human services agencies. Responsible for provision of support services to adults with opioid and other substance use disorders. Performs screening, peer counseling, group facilitation, coaching, recovery education, linking, monitoring, foster client advocacy and responsibility. Requires management and completion of work responsibilities in a time-restricted environment. Must hold or be eligible for Virginia Registered Specialist (RPRS) certification and maintain professional boundaries. Works with a challenging population, often Monday through Sundays, morning, afternoon and evening hours. This is a parttime/fulltime position. Pay range is between $18-25 per hour.

Essential Responsibilities:

· Knowledge of peer support principles, values and ethics.

· Ability to share lived experience to support, encourage and enhance a Consumer’s treatment and recovery.

· Possess recovery-oriented skills and knowledge to provide peer support services.

· Ability to collaborate with the program QP to assess their own strengths and areas of growth and develop a supervision plan.

· Ability to collaborate with a Consumer to explore and identify barriers to accessing community resources or treatment providers.

· Ability to model and mentor recovery values, attitudes, beliefs, and personal actions to encourage wellness and resilience for beneficiaries served and to promote a recovery environment in the community, residence, and workplace.

· Ability to explore with a Consumer served, the importance and creation of a wellness identity through open sharing and challenging viewpoints.

· Ability to promote a Consumer’s opportunity for personal growth by identifying teachable moments for building relationship skills to empower the Consumer and enhance personal responsibility.

· Ability to model and share decisions-making tools to enhance a Consumer’s healthy decision-making process.

· Ability to provide examples of healthy social interactions and facilitate familiarity with, and connection to, the local community.

· Ability to recognize and appropriately respond to conditions that constitute an emergency to include both physical and behavioral health crisis utilizing the emergency response procedure of employer.

· Ability to provide support to the Consumer in navigating systems (medical, social services, or legal).

• Ability to promote self-advocacy by facilitating each Consumer’s learning about his or her human and legal rights and supporting the Consumer while exercising those rights to support the empowerment of the Consumer.
• Assists about available community resources and advocates for services on behalf of clients as needed.
• Assists in the development and facilitation of recovery-oriented groups, using educational tools and utilizing personal experiences with substance use disorders and mental illness.
• Acts as a liaison between clients and other service providers (Emergency Services workers, case managers, counselors, etc.) to ensure that the client preferences expressed in their support plans.

Requirements:

Knowledge:

• Clients rights and regulations
• Substance use disorder recovery planning
• Mental health recovery planning
• Available community resources

Skills:

• Linking, coordinating, monitoring, assessing and evaluation
• Crisis prevention, intervention, and management
• Maintenance of client records in accordance with all regulatory standards including timely documentation and individualized and fully integrated service plans
• Liaison with community resources
• Advocacy
• Boundary and limit setting
• Group facilitation and conducting individual sessions for support and recovery

Abilities/Competencies:

• Demonstrate positive interpersonal communication and effective listening skills
• Collect data and prepare reports and associated correspondence
• Function as a member of an interdisciplinary team
• Work independently with minimal supervision
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, clients and families
• Demonstrate adherence to strict confidentiality and ethical standards
• Exercise sound judgement
• Manage multiple work priorities

Education/ Experience:

• High school diploma or GED
• Must have completed the 72 hour Peer Support training
• Bachelor's degree in human service or related field a plus, but not required
• Must have lived experience with substance abuse or mental health disorders
• Must have acceptable driving record
• Requires working cell phone

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Contract

Pay: $18.00 - $25.00 per hour

Work Location: In person

Salary : $18 - $25