Peer Recovery Specialist, Recovery Court

Peer Recovery Specialist, Recovery Court (ID210)

Provides peer-to-peer support services to individuals with mental illness and/or substance use disorder who are enrolled in Northwestern Community Services Board. Performs a variety of paraprofessional duties in support of wellness and recovery by utilizing their lived experiences of recovery and mental illness and/or substance use disorder plus skills learned in formal training to provide non-clinical group and individual sessions with the individuals served to promote their recovery and resiliency.

Peer Support Specialists offer emotional support, share knowledge, teach skills, provide practical assistance and connect individuals with resources, opportunities, communities of support and other people. Services are non-clinical, person centered, strengths based, wellness focused, and trauma informed. Peer support services help to ensure the individual’s wellness-recovery plan reveals the needs and preferences of the individuals being served to complete their measurable and personalized goals.

This job description is based upon an evaluation of agency requirements at the time this description was written. This job description will change as the position is developed further, or in response to organizational or technological changes.

MAJOR

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Engages with clients in the Northwest Regional Adult Recovery Court and assist with transitional and continuity of care planning.
• Provides face-to-face interactions that support an individual achieving their self-identified level of recovery, wellness, independence, or personal strengths.
• Serves as a role model of recovery and wellness and self-advocacy.
• Assist an individual or family receiving services with writing and communicating their personal recovery-wellness plans and to identify ways to reach those goals using a person-centered, individual recovery-wellness plan.
• Provide trained peer-to-peer support in groups encouraging and supporting participation and self-directed participation, such as WRAP, Dual Recovery, etc.
• Facilitate non-clinical peer-to-peer recovery education and wellness coaching through group activities in topics such as health leisure activities, community involvement strategies, etc.
• Mentor community integration activities by providing community networking and linkage with social, recreational, spiritual, volunteer, educational or vocational resources. Assist the person in identifying community-based supports that sustain a healthy lifestyle.
• Support, encourage, and enhance the development of natural support systems.
• Provide emotional support during the acquisition, exploration and sustaining of employment and/or educational services.
• Attends treatment team and program development meetings. Participates in regular group supervision and individual supervision as a means of enhancing professional growth, reviewing the provision of clinical services, and addressing administrative issues.
• Attends weekly recovery court dockets and provides support to clients during court.
• Coordinates with the consumer’s clinical team and other supports to arrange services or resources to help achieve their goals.
• Promote the use of self-directed recovery and wellness tools in individualized treatment planning.
• Share his or her unique perspective on recovery from mental illness or substance use disorder with non-peer staff.
• Provides supportive level counseling throughout the prescreening process if needed by staff.
• Participates in Northwestern Community Services trainings on peer support topics and services, including boundaries, confidentiality, safety, human rights, and ethics.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• High School diploma or GED required; bachelor’s degree…