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Overview
The Peer Recovery Specialist provides a relationship to vulnerable persons that can help keep an unmotivated or poorly organized client connected to services and maintain housing placements. The approach in peer recovery has key differences to the approach taken by a treatment provider. The Peer Recovery Specialist has responsibility for integrating the lived experience into clients’ treatment goals and services by practicing a strengths-based and harm reduction approach to recovery and wellness.
Key Role Responsibilities
Through service provision and regularly scheduled visits, build relationships that models wellness and recovery with assigned clients that results in improved engagement with services.
With supervisory guidance, use motivational and coaching strategies to help ambivalent clients better engage in care. Provide supports necessary for engagement. Supports can include reminder calls, warm hand-offs and escorting.
Coordinate with team members regarding housing, health care, behavioral health, and entitlement related treatment goals and carry out specific tasks with the client to help promote goal attainment.
Help clients identify and secure housing placements.
Provide in-home or community teaching/coaching on activities of daily living. This can include coaching on basic housekeeping, escorts for laundry, grocery or other shopping and representative payee budgeting and check distribution.
Assist the individual in identifying support systems.
Triage clients coming in for walk-in services and assist with making necessary connections.
Complete documentation within the client’s electronic health record in a manner that is easy to understand and in accordance with established formats and required timeframes.
Formal Education and Training
High school diploma, GED or equivalent. AA degree in Human Services preferred
Must be certified as a Peer Recovery Specialist or obtain the CPRS credential within 6 months of employment
Personal vehicle and valid Maryland driver’s license required
Experience
At least two years of experience in connecting individuals to essential services including healthcare, mental health, and addiction services
Experience working in a health care setting preferred
Personal experience with homelessness, substance abuse, mental illness, HIV or incarceration required
Submit application to: https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment…