Job Posting
Job Title: Recovery Peer Specialist
Work Location: Warren, MI.
Reports To: Program Manager
Employment Status: Part Time
Judson Center is a premier non-profit human service agency providing expert, comprehensive services that strengthen children, adults and families impacted by abuse and neglect, autism, developmental, behavioral and physical health challenges so they can achieve whole health, well-being and maximum potential. We proudly provide services from five regional offices that offer a variety of programs in 29 different counties. Judson has been a community partner for over 95 years and currently provides services to over 11,000 consumers annually through five Centers of Excellence: Autism, Behavioral Health, Child & Family, Family Health and Vocational Services.
Judson Center is a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) offering integrated services, which includes substance use, mental health, and physical health care services.
Job Summary
Recovery Peer Specialist is an individual with a lived experience and journey in receiving public mental health/substance use services and supports. A Recovery Peer Specialist is an individual who possesses a unique perspective to treatment, due to his/her own lived experience with mental illness. The Recovery Peer Specialist draws from his/her personal growth experience to carry the message of hope and recovery to the individuals we serve in outpatient settings. The Peer Specialist will interact, support and mentor individuals who are working toward their own recovery and will be an essential member of multi-disciplinary treatment teams.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
The Recovery Peer Specialist:
- Cultivates and secures a connection with the adults we service, while teaching personal responsibility and serving as a mentor and role model on the recovery and wellness process.
- Uses experiences with personal recovery to offer hope, encouragement and reassurance to the people served within the program.
- Works to keep adults engaged in treatment and conducts necessary activities to maintain this engagement.
- Participates in the person centered planning process as requested.
- Assists the adults we service become active participants in their treatment and encourage self-advocacy, wellness and recovery.
- Provides individual and/or group services aimed at promoting independence, community inclusion and productivity. Services offered will include but are not limited to: Assistance in applying for benefits, assistance in finding and maintaining housing, budgeting skills, Wellness Recovery Action Plan, care coordination and medical advocacy and follow up after psychiatric hospitalizations.
- Works as part of the interdisciplinary team assist in implementing best practices, evidence based practice models, trauma informed care, to provide the best possible care and/or treatment for each individual.
- Complete documentation in accordance with contractual requirements and agency guidelines including progress notes,
- Obtain prior authorizations for services in a timely manner as required.
- Meet or exceed case load and productivity benchmarks.
- Completes all mandatory trainings, as required by contract and Judson Center.
- Attends all scheduled meetings, including supervisions, program meeting, clinical and all staff.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Job Qualifications
- Must have a primary diagnosis of mental illness or substance use from a current or former consumer of public mental health service, must demonstrate leadership and advocacy skills and a strong dedication to recovery.
- Capability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with supervisors, therapist, case managers and the public.
- Ability to conduct oneself with tact and courtesy.
- Demonstrated competency in computer skills using electronic health record and Microsoft Office.
- Ability to comply with all applicable licensing rules, accreditation standards, code of ethics, insurance reimbursement rules, and Judson Center’s policies and procedures.
- Ability to provide culturally competent services that shows sensitivity to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.
Education, Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
- High School Diploma or Equivalent
- Certified Peer Support Specialist preferred or willing to become certified as a Certified Peer Support Specialist within the first 6 months or less of employment.
- Valid Michigan Driver’s License, appropriate insurance and use of own vehicle.
Working Conditions
- Non-Traditional work hours in the office, family homes and community
- Job travel, utilizing personal vehicle with mileage reimbursement
- Working with consumers with a variety of behaviors, including aggression
Physical Requirements
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to, walk, stand, sit, communicate verbally and in writing, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard. Close vision requirements due to computer work. Regular, predictable attendance is required. The employee has the potential to encounter unpredictable and aggressive consumers. The position has mostly an inside work environment and occasional outside work with exposure to weather conditions.
Direct Reports
None
This description is intended to describe the type and level of work being performed by a person assigned to this job. It is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of a person so classified. The employee is expected to adhere to all company policies and perform other duties as assigned for the good of the consumers, the program, the department and the agency.
Judson Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer