Peer Recovery Specialist
2 months ago
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Identify obstacles to accessing services and supports, addressing these in collaboration with participants and their Individual Recovery Management Team.
- Ensure that all individuals have appropriate discharge plans in place that are well understood by the client.
- If support is needed to implement the discharge plan, ensure that the appropriate supports are in place.
- When appropriate, assertively support connections to mutual self-help groups.
- Provide peer support to help recovering persons have their voices fully heard and their needs, goals and objectives established as the focal point.
- Support peers to identify their area of need for professional supports and services and communicating those needs to clinical staff.
- Transporting clients to the appropriate referral source or safe environment.
- Coach recovering clients on independent use of community resources.
- Maintain contact by phone and/or email to provide peer support to aid recovering client after they leave the program to ensure their on-going success and to provide re-engagement support in partnership with others in the organization, if needed.
- Provide recovery education to service clients for every phase of the recovery journey from pre-recovery engagement, recovery initiation, recovery stabilization, and sustained recovery maintenance.
- Develop relationships with community groups/agencies in partnership with other in the agency.
- Completes documentation, reports, and captures data in accordance with the Residential Housing processes.
- Refers patients to appropriate services in the community as necessary and documents referrals and outcomes.
- Other duties as may be required or assigned.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- A personal belief in recovery.
- Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
- Good communication skills and ability to interact effectively with personnel, visitors, patients, physicians, and general public.
- High Energy Level, Flexibility, Interpersonal Skills, and ability to function as a team with other employees.
- An ability to flexibly engage people based on their own needs.
- Demonstrated ability to respect and maintain appropriate and professional boundaries with management, peers, customers, and clients at all times.
- Must be able to follow written and oral instruction.
- Demonstrated ability to read, understand and speak English.
- Must hold a valid driver’s license.
Minimum Requirements
- High school diploma or GED equivalent required.
- Maryland Peer Certification Required.
- CPR/AED and De-escalation skills.
- Must pass a pre-employment drug screen.
- Connecticut Community for Recovery (CCAR) Training required.
Special Software Skills: Demonstrated ability to use entire MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel). Ability to learn in-house software.
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