Job Summary:
The Peer Recovery Specialist role will provide substance use treatment navigation and support for consumers seeking services at EISS. The position will aim to eliminate persistent barriers to substance use treatment through assistance with scheduling appointments, coordinating transportation and connecting consumers to appropriate resources and treatment services. The position will focus on addressing the various social determinants of health associated with substance use disorder and engagement in behavioral health services through facilitating care coordination with medical services, behavioral health services and social service agencies. This position will offer peer mentorship for one-on-one support, coordinate recovery-oriented activities and group facilitation with the goal to promote overall wellness and substance use recovery.
Essential Functions:
- Assists clients with substance use disorder seeking services through early intervention support services in developing a culturally competent recovery plan that identifies goals with measurable objectives and assesses strengths.
- Identifies barriers that can inhibit goal attainment, and monitors the progress made attaining those goals.
- Provides and/or facilitates transportation to appointments, and by accompanying clients on appointments to reduce consumer apprehension.
- Provides coordination with treatment providers by accompanying consumers when appropriate, and resolve other concerns that might interfere with access.
- Supports clients with the overall navigation of substance use and behavioral health treatment, social service and recovery support systems.
- Supports individuals as they move through the stages of change to encourage them in their recovery through one on one peer mentorship.
- Conducts group facilitation that covers a wide range of topics such as coping skills, habits, trauma, triggers, isolation risks, etc.
- Works collaboratively with case management and medical services to ensure individuals engage in appropriate services and transition to the next level of care.
- Serves as a positive role model by sharing experiential knowledge, hope, and skills.
- Conducts client follow up to assist him/her in the treatment engagement and retention process.
- Assists individuals with gaining coping skills needed to initiate and maintain recovery and maintain compliance with MAT if it is part of their treatment.
- Assists in establishing and sustaining a social and physical environment supportive of recovery.
- Advocates for appropriate and effective community treatment and recovery services.
- Empowers individuals to make self-determined and self-directed choices about their recovery pathway.
