Peer Recovery Specialist

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Identify obstacles to accessing services and supports, addressing these in collaboration with participants and their Individual Recovery Management Team.
• Ensure that all individuals have appropriate discharge plans in place that are well understood by the client.
• If support is needed to implement the discharge plan, ensure that the appropriate supports are in place.
• When appropriate, assertively support connections to mutual self-help groups.
• Provide peer support to help recovering persons have their voices fully heard and their needs, goals and objectives established as the focal point.
• Support peers to identify their area of need for professional supports and services and communicating those needs to clinical staff.
• Transporting clients to the appropriate referral source or safe environment.
• Coach recovering clients on independent use of community resources.
• Maintain contact by phone and/or email to provide peer support to aid recovering client after they leave the program to ensure their on-going success and to provide re-engagement support in partnership with others in the organization, if needed.
• Provide recovery education to service clients for every phase of the recovery journey from pre-recovery engagement, recovery initiation, recovery stabilization, and sustained recovery maintenance.
• Develop relationships with community groups/agencies in partnership with other in the agency.
• Completes documentation, reports, and captures data in accordance with the Residential Housing processes.
• Refers patients to appropriate services in the community as necessary and documents referrals and outcomes.
• Other duties as may be required or assigned.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• A personal belief in recovery.
• Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• Good communication skills and ability to interact effectively with personnel, visitors, patients, physicians, and general public.
• High Energy Level, Flexibility, Interpersonal Skills, and ability to function as a team with other employees.
• An ability to flexibly engage people based on their own needs.
• Demonstrated ability to respect and maintain appropriate and professional boundaries with management, peers, customers, and clients at all times.
• Must be able to follow written and oral instruction.
• Demonstrated ability to read, understand and speak English.
• Must hold a valid driver's license.

Minimum Requirements

• High school diploma or GED equivalent required.
• Maryland Peer Certification Required.
• CPR/AED and De-escalation skills.
• Must pass a pre-employment drug screen.
• Connecticut Community for Recovery (CCAR) Training required.

Special Software Skills: Demonstrated ability to use entire MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel). Ability to learn in-house software.