Certified Peer Specialist- Part time

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Job Description

Improves the delivery of outpatient services by providing interventions including but not limited to providing recovery education; supporting patients in crisis by identifying acute stressors and attempting to mediate them; advocating for patients to ensure their needs are adequately acknowledged and addressed; supporting families who present to the Bridge Clinic requesting information about substance use disorders and co-morbid mental disorders.
Support access to and retention in care by proactively communicating with patients by telephone and in community-based settings.
Provide recovery education for every phase of the recovery journey from pre-recovery engagement recovery initiation recovery stabilization and sustained recovery maintenance.
Provide a model for both people in recovery and staff by demonstrating that recovery is possible.
Actively identify and support linkages to community resources (communities of recovery MOUD educational vocational social cultural spiritual resources mutual self- help groups professional services etc.) that support the recovering persons goals and interests.
Provide vision-driven hope and encouragement for opportunities at varying levels of involvement in community-based activities (e.g. work school relationships physical activity self-directed hobbies etc.).
Develop relationships with community groups/agencies in partnership with others in Jefferson Health. Identify barriers (internal and external) to full participation in Jefferson Health or community resources and develop strategies to overcome those barriers.
Maintain contact either in-person by phone and/or e-mail with recovering person for 6 months once they engage in a recovery program to ensure ongoing success and to provide re-engagement support in partnership with others in the Jefferson Health if needed.
Serve as an essential link between patients and all other care providers. The CRS is responsible for interacting with patient service representatives to expedite scheduling for follow-up and acute care appointments within Jefferson Health. Meet with patients at least monthly to assess compliance address patient needs and gain insight into unmet needs. Coordinate information and patient needs (social service health and medication) with appropriate interdisciplinary provider: PCP social work MOUD provider D&A provider etc.
Follow patients throughout the care continuum including inpatient admissions discharges from all levels of care and collaborate with inpatient care management resources.
Track all data requirements related to client activity and requirements set within the Bridge Clinic Behavioral Health or other Jefferson Health key departments.
Demonstrate flexibility and creativity clinical expertise initiative leadership and communication skills necessary to collaborate with a medical team in a fast-paced clinical setting.

QUALIFICATIONS
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required or preferred.

Education - Required
High School Diploma/GED
Earned 24 post-secondary education credits

Experience - Required
Lived experience as a consumer of SUD services (required)

Licenses and Certifications - Preferred
Mental Health First Aid
CRS - Certified Recovery Specialist - Pennsylvania Certification Board

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Nationally ranked Jefferson which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65000 people strong dedicated to providing the highest-quality compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrows professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College Jefferson College of Nursing and the Kanbar College of Design Engineering and Commerce dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8300 students. Jefferson Health nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age race color religion creed sexual orientation gender gender identity marital status pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship military status veteran status handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues including medical (including prescription) supplemental insurance dental vision life and AD&D insurance short- and long-term disability flexible spending accounts retirement plans tuition assistance as well as voluntary benefits which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues including those who work less than part-time(including per diemcolleagues adjunct faculty and Jeff Temps) have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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