Urgently Require Peer Recovery Specialist/Peer Coach in USA
Job title: Peer Recovery Specialist/Peer Coach
Company: Johns Hopkins University
Job description: The Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition's Dee's Place is seeking a Peer Recovery Specialist/Peer Coach (Outreach Worker) who will be able to build a trust-based relationship with participants while assisting participants in their journey toward recovery and wellness. Inspiring optimism and hope that recovery is possible and probable all while promoting empowerment, self-determination, understanding, coping skills, and resilience. The candidate will act as a role model to participants in such areas as: identifying personal strengths, conflict resolution, building self-esteem, recovery skills. Using and speaking about personal experiences related to behavioral health issue and, the criminal justice system.
For more than 20 years, Dee's Place has provided a safe place where people in recovery can engage with peers, drop-in for 12-step meetings, participate in day program activities, and connect to psychiatric rehabilitative services. Staff assists in connecting guests to a healthy community and staying on the right track. Dee's Place is a program of Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities
- 1:1 peer recovery coaching, peer counseling, and peer-mentoring.
- Assist member in identifying and achieving with short/mid- and long-term recovery planning goals.
- Facilitating peer led groups on topics such as harm reduction; many Pathways to Recovery theory, wellness, and recovery; recovery capital and recovery planning.
- Knowledge to assist participants with accessing and securing all entitlements benefits he/she is eligible to receive (food stamps, Temporary Cash Assistance, Motor Vehicle Administration identification, health insurance, etc.).
- When requested make effective referrals for participants seeking to access substance use disorder or mental health services.
- Perform electronic online data entry of all participant engagement documentation including but not limited to assessment documentation; daily/weekly or monthly engagement documentation.
- Ability to effectively communicate effectively with clients, their family and friends, collaborating and partner agencies and the general public.
- Prepare reports and records including but not limited to, documentation of each participant encounter, service plans with enrolled participates, progress reports to treatment teams, etc.
- Related duties as needed.
- High School Diploma or graduation equivalent.
- CPRS (Certified Peer Recovery Specialist) Certification.
- If not certified, must become a CPRS (following the certification process designated by the State of Maryland) within 6 months of hire, and thereafter must maintain certification in active? or ?good standing? while employed.
- 2 years related experience.
- Additional education may substitute for required experience, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.