Peer Recovery Specialist

Division: Eskenazi Health

Sub-Division: SEMHC

Req : 24864

Schedule
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Part Time

Shift
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Evening

Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center, Indiana's first community mental health center, provides comprehensive care for emotional and behavioral problems, including severe mental illness and substance abuse. The Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center offers both inpatient and outpatient services, including several outreach centers as well as clinic- and community-based services.

Non-Exempt

The Peer Recovery Specialist assists clients to access recovery-oriented substance use and mental health treatment, resources and community recovery supports. This position bridges the fragmented treatment system into a more holistic care model through providing support across multiple systems and frameworks of care across the community. The Peer Recovery Specialist maintains ongoing client support regardless of the stage of recovery and serves as a motivator, ally, role model, problem solver and advocate for patients who are seeking assistance.

The Peer Recovery Specialist possesses a thorough understanding of community culture and is able to address the barriers of successful recovery, including decreasing stigma related to mental health and substance use while linking individuals to community resources and treatment options.

• Embraces, understands, and operates under the Recovery Model, including AIDET (Acknowledge, Introduce, Duration, Explanation, Thank You) and the spirit of motivational interviewing.
• Proactively contributes to Eskenazi Health’s mission:
  Advocate, Care, Teach, and Serve with special emphasis on the vulnerable population of Marion County. Models Eskenazi Health values of Professionalism, Respect, Innovation, Development, and Excellence.
• Engages with individuals served by Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center for the purpose of assisting with access to initial and ongoing treatment and support.
• Draws on own lived experience to provide peer recovery services in a variety of locations including individuals’ homes, community, emergency department, outpatient treatment, and criminal justice settings.
• Works with clinical team to conduct initial needs assessment, reviews the individual’s behavioral history, and assists in identifying the client’s goals and expectations.
• Assists individuals with identifying and addressing any barriers to ongoing engagement with the treatment system.
• Accompanies patients providing peer recovery support to appointments, meetings, and social service agencies as needed.
• Integrates cultural awareness and sensitivity of diverse needs into client care in daily work.
• Accurately documents services provided in the electronic health record.
• Develops positive rapport with individuals and their support system while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.
• Provides community resource referrals, advocacy, support, outreach, and follow-up.
• Triage Service Area: Performs patient care activities including but not limited to performing vital sign measurements, collecting specimens, monitoring nutritional status, assisting patients with bathing, feeding, toileting, and other related duties.

• Minimum of high school diploma or equivalent required.
• Active and unencumbered peer recovery certification required in one of the following:
• Certified Peer Support Professional (“CPSP”)
• Certified Peer Recovery Coach-Associate (“CPRC‑A”)
• Certified Peer Recovery Coach (“CPRC”)
• National Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialist (“NCPRSS”)

• Minimum of one (1) full year of work experience as a certified peer specialist providing peer recovery services required.
• Certification as a CPSP, CPRC‑A, or CPRC required.
• If holding a CPRC‑A, incumbent must submit a credentialing plan to obtain the CPRC at the soonest date possible, not to exceed two years from issuance of the CPRC‑A.
• Minimum one (1) year in recovery required except as noted below.

Three (3) years in recovery required.

• Valid Indiana driver’s license and record that meets…