Peer Recovery Specialist

Peer Recovery Specialist

FULL-TIME | NON-EXEMPT

WEEKDAYS | 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

POSTED: 11/22/2024

OPEN UNTIL FILLED

Indian Health Board of Minneapolis is a Federally Qualified Health Care Center and community clinic providing access to quality health care and wellness services. We believe the best care happens when we listen and work together. While promoting and preserving our urban American Indian and Alaska Native traditions and identity, we embrace all people seeking patient-centered, culturally sensitive health care and wellness services.

At Indian Health Board we believe Good Relationships are supported by three interrelated values: Respect for culture - preserving and promoting our American Indian and Alaska Native heritage and identity while embracing all other cultures with acceptance and compassion; Excellence - seeking excellence in all our services, business practices, and community partnerships; Leadership - promoting ethical leadership based on collaboration and mutual respect.

We offer:

• Platinum benefits package available for employees working 30 hours per week or more: Health, Dental, FSA
• Company paid long term and life insurance
• Generous paid time-off
• Retirement savings plan with employer match

Our mission statement:

"To ensure access to quality health care services for American Indians and other peoples and to promote health education and wellness."

-Respect for Culture Excellence Leadership-

If our beliefs resonate with you, we want you, and encourage you to apply at IHB.

JOB SUMMARY

Peer recovery specialists (PRS) walk side by side with individuals seeking recovery from substance use disorders and exists to be an active member of the Recovery Services team at the Indian Health Board and provides peer support services to clients involved with IHB's Recovery Services (RS) and Counseling & Support (C&S) Programming.

A peer recovery specialist brings the lived experience of recovery, combined with training and supervision, to assist others in initiating and maintaining recovery, helping to enhance the quality of personal and family life in long-term recovery (White, 2009). A peer recovery specialist focuses on long-term recovery and is rooted in a culture of hope, health, and wellness. The unique relationship between the peer recovery specialist and the individual in or seeking recovery is grounded in trust, and focused on providing the individual with tools, resources, and support to achieve long-term recovery.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

The Peer Recovery Specialist will use a goal setting process that includes to:

• Teach and role model the value of every individual's recovery experience.
• Assist clients in articulating personal goals for recovery through the use of one-to-one and group sessions. During these sessions the Peer Recovery Specialist will support clients in identifying and creating goals and developing their own individual wellness and recovery plans with the skills, strengths, supports and resources to aid them in achieving those goals.
• Assist clients in working with their case manager, social worker or treatment team in determining the steps he/she needs to take in order to achieve these goals and self-directed recovery.
• Assist clients in setting up and sustaining self-help groups, as well as means of locating and joining existing groups and investigating names of staff, community resources and groups that may be useful for their recovery.
• Use ongoing individual and group sessions to teach clients how to identify and combat negative self-talk, identify coping techniques & self-help strategies, utilize and teach problem solving techniques, developing empowerment skills and combating stigma through self-advocacy.
• Documentation of the following on the client's treatment/recovery plan:

1. identified person-centered strengths, needs, abilities, and recovery goals
2. interventions to assist the client with reaching their goals for recovery
3. progress made toward goals

• Receive ongoing supervision in areas specific to the domains of the Peer Recovery Specialist's role by Recovery Services Clinical Supervisor.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

The Peer Recovery Specialist performs a wide range of tasks to assist peers of all ages, in regaining independence within the community and mastery over their own personal recovery process. IHB's Recovery Services Program will provide peer recovery support services provided on a one-to-one and group basis by an individual in recovery.

Recovery specialists provide many different types of support, including

• emotional (empathy and concern)
• informational (connections to information and referrals to community resources that support health and wellness)
• instrumental (concrete supports such as housing or employment)
• affiliational support (connections to recovery community supports, activities, and events).
• assist peers of all ages, in regaining independence within the community and mastery over their own personal recovery process

These supports help people in recovery build recovery capital-the internal and external resources necessary to begin and maintain recovery (Best & Laudet, 2010; Cloud & Granfield, 2008).

Additional skills and abilities include:

• non-clinical recovery support to assist the transition from treatment into the recovery community.
• Ability to understand and meet the needs of the patient through respectful, courteous and caring interactions with patients, families and other health professionals.
• Knows, understands and adheres to organizational policy related to the patient's rights for confidential care.
• Actively participates and works positively, flexibly and cooperatively in a team effort to accomplish the goals of the Indian Health Board of Minneapolis.
• Ability to work with health personnel and clients of varying ethnic backgrounds.
• Must be flexible and self-directed.
• Must have good communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Knowledge of the Recovery process and the ability to facilitate recovery using established standardized mental health processes.
• Knowledge and skill to teach and engage in basic problem-solving strategies to support individual clients in self-directed recovery.
• Knowledge of the signs and symptoms of mental illness and the ability to assist the client to address symptoms using strategies such as positive self-talk or accessing mental health services available.
• Knowledge and skill sufficient to use community resources necessary for independent living and ability to teach those skills to other individuals.
• A valid driver's license is required.
• Manages time effectively and prioritizes task completion to meet deadlines
• Strong knowledge of pertinent governmental regulations

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Have a minimum of one year in recovery from substance use disorder;
• Have a GED or high school diploma
• Certification as a Peer Recovery Support Specialist by an approved state credentialing board
• Continuing education to maintain certification and competence in the domains of ethics and boundaries, advocacy, mentoring and education, and recovery and wellness support as approved by Recovery Services Director.