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: $14.
00 - $28.
00 per hour Benefits: * 401(k) matching * Dental insurance * Employee discount * Health insurance * Life insurance * Paid time off * Retirement plan * Vision insurance Schedule: * 10 hour shift * No weekends 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