Job Description:

Quest Counseling & Consulting, a private nonprofit located in Reno, Nevada, provides behavioral health services to adolescents and adults including substance abuse and/or mental health disorders treatment.

We are a proud winner of the Best Places to Work Award. We value our diverse and inclusive workforce and are dedicated to our communities' recovery and healing.

We are looking for a full-time Peer Support/Community Health Worker who is an individual whose role supports others in recovery from a substance use disorder. This position will serve as a role model, mentor, advocate, and motivator to recovering individuals in order to help prevent relapse and promote long-term recovery. The Peer Support/Community Health Worker must demonstrate an ability to share personal recovery experiences and to develop authentic peer-to-peer relationships, while maintaining professional boundaries.

Essential Function:

The duties shall include but are not limited to:

1. Develop rapport and engage in a personal and positive supportive relationship, demonstrating and inspiring.

2. Promotes recovery by removing barriers and obstacles, i.e. support and sustain transition from professionally assisted recovery initiation to personally directed, community supported recovery maintenance.

3. Provide social and emotional support inside and outside the organization

4. Brainstorm to identify strengths and needs post-discharge, and ensure that the discharge plan is comprehensive and complete

5. Assist peers in assessing unique strengths and abilities by identifying recovering persons’ abilities, strengths and assets and guide them to recognize and use these strengths to achieve their goals

6. Provide recovery education for the different phases of the recovery journey to include internal and external process i.e., running a peer support group (meditation, wellness, SMART).

7. Provide a model for both people in recovery and staff by demonstrating that recovery is possible.

8. Provide links to professional treatment and community resources.

9. Help individuals and families to initiate, stabilize, and sustain recovery.

10. Long-term engagement, support, and encouragement by maintaining contact by phone and /or e-mail with recovering person after they leave the program to ensure their ongoing success and to provide re-engagement support.

11. Distribute and track distribution of Narcan and Fentanyl Test strips to clients, community, and while participating in outreach events.

12. Provide peer lead recovery groups on-site and via telehealth.

13. Develop pro-social activities for clients to participate in on a quarterly basis.

14. Learn and utilize our electronic health record to enter progress notes.

15. Willingness to provide transportation to clients when necessary or meet them in the community.

16. Serve as a liaison/link/intermediary between health/social services and the community to facilitate access to services and improve the quality and cultural competence of service delivery.

17. Build individual and community capacity by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency through range of activities such as outreach, community education, informal counseling, social support and advocacy.

The Peer Support/Community Health Worker must demonstrate the following qualities:

• Must have at least four (4) years of sobriety.
• A genuine hope and optimism that their peers will succeed in the recovery process.
• A sincere interest in the welfare of their peers, including the ability to see each person as a unique individual.
• A willingness to share their own recovery experience.
• An ability to flexibly engage people based on their level of receptivity and individual needs, acknowledging that even the same person may need different types of peer-based services at different points in their recovery process.

After 90 days of successful employment, Quest offers the following company paid employee benefits: health, dental, vision, LTD and Life Insurance, and after 1 year of employment is eligible to participate in 401K plan with company match.

Candidate must be able to pass a pre-employment drug test, including marijuana.

Hours: 8:00am to 5:00pm - Monday through Friday

Job Type: Full-time

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: From $19.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Application Question(s):

• Are you a peer in recovery and have at least 4 years of sobriety?
• Have you completed the required CASAT classes to be certified?

Work Location: In person