Peer Recovery Support Specialist Residential

The Peer Recovery Support Specialists are individuals trained to incorporate their unique personal experience in their own recovery with a distinct knowledge base and human service skills. This combination of experience and training allows the Peer Recovery Support Specialist to facilitate recovery and build the resilience of persons in recovery. Peer Recovery Support Specialists help consumers to address their physical, intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual needs to facilitate and maintain wellness throughout the behavioral health recovery process.

• Provide peer support
• Follow up with patients leaving residential treatment at regulatory required intervals or in cases of addditional resource coordinaton needs.
• The individual(s) would assist care coordination or admissions staff by talking with potential patients who are appropriate but having difficulty admitting to treatment.
• The individual(s) would assist the treatment team by talking with the patient in an effort to keep patient engaged in treatment.
• Intentionally share his or her own recovery story as appropriate to assist peers, provide hope, and help in changing patterns and behaviors.
• Create an environment of respect for peers which honors individuals for taking charge of their own lives.
• Demonstrate understanding of how trauma affects mental health and substance use disorder recovery, develop trauma-informed relationships, and support peers in obtaining appropriate resources for help.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how substance use disorder affects mental health recovery.
• Encourage and assist peers to construct their own recovery/wellness plans, which may also include proactive crisis and/or recovery maintenance plans.
• Support peers in crisis to explore options that may be beneficial to returning to emotional and physical wellness.
• Encourage peers to focus on their strengths, exercise use of natural supports, develop their own recovery goals, and strengthen their valued roles within the community
• Provide addiction care to assigned patients consistent with the scope of employee's training and credentialing, including psycho educational groups.
• Interact with patients, conducting coordinated one‑on‑one sessions that facilitate individual goals to address psychosocial, intellectual, physical and spiritual needs.
• Implement components of the patient's individualized, interdisciplinary treatment plan. Report and record patient's behaviors, interactions, responses to clinical interventions, and progress toward meeting the treatment plan objectives.
• Understand and implement daily patient activities and collaborate with Mental Health & Addiction Recovery staff.
• Support mental health technicians (MHT) in their activities to facilitate a healthy recovery milieu in the residential treatment setting, including the monitoring and coaching of resident behavior.
• Facilitate recovery‑based outings or meetings to model healthy engagement with recovery spaces.
• Monitor behavior and intervene to ensure dignity, learning, and well‑being of all patients, and reinforce behavior through interactions based on program philosophy.
• Understand and implement daily patient activities specific to the assigned program.
• Use knowledge and skills to collect, review and document information regarding the patient's status.
• Complete clinical reports such as the Social Services Admission Assessment or ASAM, as requested by the primary counselors.
• Provide interventions that are appropriate to the age of the patient population served, including individual and discharge needs as requested and identified by the clinical team.
• Communicate specific needs of patients and their significant others.
• Provide individual sessions to facilitate recovery activities…