Peer Recovery Specialist

Avera Behavioral Health Center Link

Worker Type:

Regular

Work Shift:

Primarily days with possible weekends/evenings/holidays (United States of America)

Pay Range:

The pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience.

$18.75 $28.75

Position Highlights

You Belong at Avera

Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

A Brief Overview

The Peer Recovery Specialist has been successful in the recovery process and will help guide others who are experiencing similar situations. Through shared understanding respect and empowerment peer recovery specialist will help individuals stay engaged in their recovery journey. The Specialist participates in the following activities: advocating for people in recovery sharing resources and building skills building community relationships leading recovery groups mentoring and setting goals. The Peer Recovery Specialist will function as a role model and perform a wide range of tasks.

What you will do

• Provide recovery education to service recipients for every phase of the recovery. From prerecovery engagement recovery initiation recovery stabilization and sustained recovery maintenance.
• Assist recovering persons to identify their personal interests goals strengths and weaknesses regarding recovery.
• Facilitate the transition from a professionally directed service plan to a selfdirected recovery plan.
• Promote selfadvocacy by assisting recovering persons to have their voices fully heard; their needs goals and objectives established as the focal point of rehabilitation and clinical services.
• Actively identify and support referrals to community resources (communities of recovery educational vocational social cultural spiritual resources mutual selfhelp groups professional services etc. that support the recovering persons goals and interests. This involves a collaborative effort including the recovering person agency staff and other relevant stakeholders.
• Identify barriers (internal and external) of service recipient in participation of community resources and develop strategies to overcome those barriers. Referring individuals to appropriate professional resources when needed.
• Maintain contact with recovering person to ensure ongoing success and provide reengagement support in partnership with others if needed.
• Assist clients in building social skills in the community that will enhance job acquisition and tenure.
• Develop implement and promote ongoing community training opportunities.

Essential Qualifications

The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others hear understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge skills and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

Required Education License/Certification or Work Experience:

• Bachelors
• Drivers License Licensing Board Upon Hire
• Peer Specialist Certification Certification Board within 2 Years
• Recovery from livedexperience in substance use and/or cooccurring mental health disorders (selfattested)
• Knowledge of the recovery process

Expectations and Standards

• Commitment to the daily application of Averas mission vision core values and social principles to serve patients their families and our community.
• Promote Averas values of compassion hospitality and stewardship.
• Uphold Averas standards of Communication Attitude Responsiveness and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Work effectively in a team environment coordinating work flow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment.
• Comply with safety principles laws regulations and standards associated with but not limited to CMS The Joint Commission DHHS and OSHA if applicable.

Benefits You Need & Then Some

Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying parttime and fulltime employees. We support you with opportunities to help live balanced healthy lives. Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future.

• PTO available day 1 for eligible hires.

• Free health insurance options for fulltime single coverage on Avera High Deductible Health Plan

• Up to 5 employer matching contribution for retirement

• Career development guided by handson training and mentorship

Avera is an Equal Opportunity Employer Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability Veteran Status or other categories protected by law. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation for help with your online application please callor send an email to .