Certified SUD Peer Support

Job Description

Job DescriptionDescription:

Values

Employees of Darke County Recovery Services, DBA Recovery & Wellness Centers of Midwest Ohio are expected to value highest ethical standards, quality clinical care, and good customer service. We also value quality communication skills in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary and often multi-agency service environment.

Benefits

RWC offers a competitive benefit package including medical, dental and vision. Employer paid short term, long term disability insurance as well as a $25,000.00 life insurance policy for all full time employees. Along with 10 paid holidays, full time employees receive a PTO package that starts accruing at day one, averaging 4 weeks per year. We have an EAP program for staff and a wellness hour monthly. All employees are eligible to participate in our 403B retirement program.

Qualifications:

High school diploma/G.E.D. and 1-2 letters of recommendation; must have worked within the last three years with at least 12 months total of successful or part or full time paid or voluntary work experience and have acquired or meet the qualifications for certification as a Certified Peer Recovery Supporter. Individual must have an understanding of and respect for each individual’s unique path to recovery. Peer Recovery Supporter must have a working knowledge of the drug and alcohol treatment system and a demonstrated commitment to the recovery community.

Role:

The Peer Recovery Supporter’s role is to support others in recovery from a substance use disorder. They will serve as a role model, mentor, advocate and motivator to recovering individuals in order to help prevent relapse and promote long-term recovery. The Peer Recovery Supporter must demonstrate an ability to share personal recovery experiences and to develop authentic peer-to-peer relationships.

Requirements:

Duties and Functions:

• Maintain project logs, reports and records in appropriate files and database(s)
• Provide recovery education to individuals 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
• Assist individuals to identify their personal interests, goals, strengths and weaknesses regarding recovery
• Assist individuals in developing their own plan for advancing their recovery
• Promote self-advocacy by assisting individuals in expressing their voice, needs, goals and objectives
• Actively identify and support linkages to community resources (communities of recovery, educational, vocational, social, cultural, spiritual resources, mutual self- help groups, professional services, etc.) that support the individual's goals and interests
• Support connections to community based, mutual self-help groups
• Link individuals to appropriate professional resources
• 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.)
• Identify barriers (internal and external) to full participation in community resources and developing strategies to overcome those barriers
• Maintain contact by phone and/or e-mail with recovering person after they leave the program to insure their ongoing success and to provide re-engagement support in partnership with others in the agency if needed. Long-term engagement, support, and encouragement.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, talk, and hear.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee must have a valid license to drive a motor vehicle and a safe driving record. Employee must be comfortable driving vehicle in varied weather conditions found in the geographic region.