Peer Support Specialist II

• Guest Care & Advocacy: Provides coaching and mentoring to peer support staff through role modeling and guidance, modeling techniques and practices of peer support and self-help. Acts as a mentor for new team members, facilitating training opportunities for professional development. Provides support for participant wellness, groups, and other activities that strengthen recovery. Ensures all program elements and expectations are being met. Provides peer support to engage participants in a recovery partnership and assists in identifying participant’s hopes and dreams and the solutions they are seeking. Teaches recovery and life skills using recovery tools. Models hope, personal responsibility and self-advocacy to demonstrate how recovery goals can be respectfully met and how a belief in self is maintained. Cultivates connectedness in the person’s life (self, others, the environment, and to meaning and purpose).
• Provides coaching and mentoring to peer support staff through role modeling and guidance, modeling techniques and practices of peer support and self-help.
• Acts as a mentor for new team members, facilitating training opportunities for professional development.
• Provides support for participant wellness, groups, and other activities that strengthen recovery.
• Ensures all program elements and expectations are being met.
• Provides peer support to engage participants in a recovery partnership and assists in identifying participant’s hopes and dreams and the solutions they are seeking.
• Teaches recovery and life skills using recovery tools.
• Models hope, personal responsibility and self-advocacy to demonstrate how recovery goals can be respectfully met and how a belief in self is maintained.
• Cultivates connectedness in the person’s life (self, others, the environment, and to meaning and purpose).
• Compliance & Risk Management: Completes clinical notes as required. Responsible for facilitating, documentation, transfers and transition of guest care. Keeps abreast of all federal and state regulations and laws and all Recovery Innovations policies and procedures as they presently exist and as they change or are modified. Understands and adheres to Recovery Innovations compliance standards as they appear in the Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest Policies.
• Completes clinical notes as required.
• Responsible for facilitating, documentation, transfers and transition of guest care.
• Keeps abreast of all federal and state regulations and laws and all Recovery Innovations policies and procedures as they presently exist and as they change or are modified.
• Understands and adheres to Recovery Innovations compliance standards as they appear in the Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest Policies.
• Cross Functional Collaboration: Assists with initial introductions to clinical team, serving as point of contact for participants. Coordinates with the individual’s clinical team and other supports to arrange services or resources to help the individual achieve their goals. Coordinate transportation to external resources and facilitate community integration. Develops and maintains positive and constructive working relationships with team members
• Assists with initial introductions to clinical team, serving as point of contact for participants.
• Coordinates with the individual’s clinical team and other supports to arrange services or resources to help the individual achieve their goals.
• Coordinate transportation to external resources and facilitate community integration.
• Develops and maintains positive and constructive working relationships with team members
• Additional Duties: Creating peer level curriculum and facilitate group activities. Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Creating peer level curriculum and facilitate group activities.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Outpatient Programs: Aids participants with resume building, job searching and recovery planning. Provides recovery support services in partnership with team members in the community. Assists individuals in maintaining healthy living within the community.
• Aids participants with resume building, job searching and recovery planning.
• Provides recovery support services in partnership with team members in the community.
• Assists individuals in maintaining healthy living within the community.
• Education/Licenses: Successful completion of Peer Employment Training thus obtaining Certification as a Peer Support Specialist required. High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Successful completion of Peer Employment Training thus obtaining Certification as a Peer Support Specialist required.
• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Experience: Lived experience requiring mental health and/or substance use services. Two (2) year of full-time behavioral health experience. Additional training in peer-related topics required.

in community navigation, resume writing, curriculum development, and family peer support.

• Lived experience requiring mental health and/or substance use services.
• Two (2) year of full-time behavioral health experience.
• Additional training in peer-related topics required.
• Experience in community navigation, resume writing, curriculum development, and family peer support.
• Skills: Basic computer skills. Ability to teach/train recovery information and recovery tools. Effective communication skills. Must be able to pass de-escalation training, as defined by state requirements.
• Basic computer skills.
• Ability to teach/train recovery information and recovery tools.
• Effective communication skills.
• Must be able to pass de-escalation training, as defined by state requirements.
• Driving Requirements: If driving is required for this position, must meet all requirements outlined in Recovery Innovations driving policy. If not qualified to drive per driving policy, a Non-Driver Attestation form must be signed.
• If driving is required for this position, must meet all requirements outlined in Recovery Innovations driving policy.
• If not qualified to drive per driving policy, a Non-Driver Attestation form must be signed.
• Outpatient Programs: Experience in community navigation, resume writing, and family peer support.
• Experience in community navigation, resume writing, and family peer support.
• Miscellaneous Requirement(s): Applicants must be at least 18 years old unless residing in a state where funder or government regulations set a different minimum age requirement. Travel required based on business need. Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality (HIPAA guidelines and regulations) and professionalism. We are a Second-Chance Employer Must be able to pass a seven-year background check. Must be able to pass substance abuse testing and/or tuberculous testing (if applicable). Must be able to pass education verification check. Must be able to obtain designated fingerprinting clearance in applicable states. Must be able to pass three-year motor vehicle report and meet minimum eligibility requirements criteria of insurance carrier (if driving is required for this position).
• Applicants must be at least 18 years old unless residing in a state where funder or government regulations set a different minimum age requirement.
• Travel required based on business need.
• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality (HIPAA guidelines and regulations) and professionalism.
• We are a Second-Chance Employer Must be able to pass a seven-year background check. Must be able to pass substance abuse testing and/or tuberculous testing (if applicable). Must be able to pass education verification check. Must be able to obtain designated fingerprinting clearance in applicable states. Must be able to pass three-year motor vehicle report and meet minimum eligibility requirements criteria of insurance carrier (if driving is required for this position).
• Must be able to pass a seven-year background check.
• Must be able to pass substance abuse testing and/or tuberculous testing (if applicable).
• Must be able to pass education verification check.
• Must be able to obtain designated fingerprinting clearance in applicable states.
• Must be able to pass three-year motor vehicle report and meet minimum eligibility requirements criteria of insurance carrier (if driving is required for this position).

Must be able to clear the authorized driving component for Recovery Innovations and provide proof of own personal auto insurance with a minimum level of coverage: $100,000 in bodily injury -OR- $100,000 in property damage -OR- both ($100,000 in bodily injury AND $100,000 in property damage)