Peer Recovery Support Specialist

22 hours ago

Wake Forest, NC, United States Advocate Aurora Health Full time
Department:

11212 Wake Forest University Health Sciences - Infectious Diseases

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

M-F 8A-5P

Pay Range
$20.40 - $30.60

The Peer Recovery Support Specialist is an individual who is in recovery from substance use disorder. Their life experiences and recovery allow them to provide recovery support in such way that others can benefit from their experiences. Functions as a role model to peers, exhibiting competency in personal recovery and use of coping skills; serves as a consumer advocate, providing consumer information and peer support for patients.

Major Responsibilities:
  • Serves as Peer Recovery Support Specialist (PRSS). Provides individual screening, patient engagement, warm hand offs, and brief therapeutic services utilizing a solution focused, therapy framework.
    • Establish relationships with patients while screening for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD)/Substance Use Disorder (SUD). While doing this, PRSS can share his/her lived experience of OUD/SUD and recovery
    • Work closely with the OUD team with patients to assess the desired level of care after discharge
    • Collaborate with the team to coordinate referrals to inpatient or outpatient treatment facilities
    • Visit daily with inpatients to conduct motivational interviews and provide psychosocial support.
    • Collaborate with the OUD/SUD team to ensure both the patient and the accepting facility are fully engaged in the warm handoff process.
    • Assist patients in setting up and sustaining self-help groups, as well as means of locating and joining existing groups throughout the community.
    • Utilize and teach problem solving techniques with individuals and groups
    • PRSS will share with patients their skills, strengths, supports, and resources they utilized in their own recovery and demonstrate how they have directed their own recovery plan.
    • Complete intake assessment and Screening, Brief Intervention & Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) screenings.
  • Assess Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) options for patients and induction of buprenorphine prior to discharge. Confirm transportation to intake appointments and confirm patient arrival and engagement
    • PRSS will have meeting and warm hand-off with the team member from the receiving treatment center at the hospital
    • Collaborate with the OUD/SUD team to coordinate an appointment for buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone
    • Responsible for scheduling the appropriate follow-up appointment and making a warm handoff with clear instructions.
    • Ensure around-the-clock resources are available for all patients and families
    • If transportation is not offered from accepting facility, PRSS will arrange transportation services.
  • Ensuring a connection to affordable treatment options and recovery services. Engage with patients discharge.
    • Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to assess the patient's support systems and engage in family meetings regarding treatment decisions as needed
    • Verify the patient's insurance status to confirm the proposed treatment plan is covered
    • Seek out providers who can offer services on an affordable sliding fee scale
    • Coordinate with the hospital's financial counselors who can help patients enroll in Medicaid during their stay.
    • PRSS to remain in contact with discharged patients through follow-up phone calls and contacts 24 hours post discharge and 1 week later.
    • Maintain professional relationships with patients after discharge through after-care recovery groups organized by the program
    • Maintain and stay connected within a referral network for other health and human services that would provide for this specific population of patients
    • Offer enrollment with grant-directed follow up studies.
  • Professional Development
    • Attends in-service training as scheduled by supervisor or manager.
    • Attend continued education on EBP regarding the latest therapeutic and medication treatments.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:
  • Minimum two years of sustained sobriety who identifies as being in recovery from a substance use disorder and is willing to share details of his or her personal recovery experience.
  • Basic PC skills Excellent communication skills
  • CPR & Crisis Prevention Intervention.
Education/Experience Required:

High school diploma or equivalent.

Our Commitment to You:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more - so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation
  • Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
  • Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
  • Incentive pay for select positions
  • Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
Benefits and more
  • Paid Time Off programs
  • Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
  • Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
  • Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
  • Educational Assistance Program


About Advocate Health

Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation's largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.

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