Certified Peer Recovery Specialist - Howard

4C Health•Kokomo, IN

26d•$26 - $31•Onsite

About The Position

The Certified Peer Recovery Specialist uses lived experience and formal training to instill hope, inspire change, and support individuals navigating recovery. The role provides peer recovery and skill-building services, helps clients follow recommendations from medical and mental health providers, and connects them with services and community resources. It operates under minimal supervision and requires professionalism, sound judgment, tact, and confidentiality when working with clients, families, colleagues, and the public. The specialist supports clients’ recovery and community reintegration through assessments, documentation, treatment-plan input, outreach, follow-up, self-advocacy, goal setting, and assistance reducing barriers to care. The position may also involve mobile crisis response, transportation, treatment-court and criminal-justice-related work, groups, community outreach, school support, and discharge coordination. For peers working on CRSS, responsibilities include discharge coordination, follow-up calls, assessments, safety planning, resource connections, individual peer services, and coordination with outpatient clinicians. This is a full-time position in Howard County, based in Kokomo, Indiana. 4C Health offers a four-day, 32-hour work week. The advertised wage range is undisclosed, with starting and growing base wage opportunities up to $31.25 per hour. Additional compensation may be available through mobile crisis on-call work and other incentive programs.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
Obtain Certified Peer Support Professional (CPSP) certification within six months of hire.
Lived experience of recovery from a mental health condition, substance use, or problem gambling; and/or lived experience assisting a family member with one of these concerns; and/or at least two years in recovery.
Willingness to submit to a pre-employment drug screen.
Willingness to submit to comprehensive background checks, including criminal and child protective services checks.

Nice To Haves

A degree or further education in social services, psychology, or mental health.
At least one year of full-time experience in mental health, childcare, or another related field.
Fluency in Spanish or Burmese may qualify for a bilingual wage premium.

Responsibilities

Complete client assessments, including evaluation of daily living and independent living skills and collection of relevant clinical, medical, family, psychosocial, and substance-use information.
Understand the treatment plans and service lines to which clients are referred.
Document services and client progress accurately, promptly, and in accordance with Center policies and systems.
Provide input on clients’ progress toward treatment-plan goals and communicate relevant information to the primary case manager.
Provide direct client care and meet the agency’s assigned encounter expectations.
Apply peer recovery, skill-building intervention, and case-management billing codes appropriately.
Provide peer recovery services and skill-building interventions to support clients’ recovery.
Facilitate follow-up recommendations from medical and mental health providers and connect clients to services inside and outside the Center.
Promote client self-reliance through care coordination, self-advocacy education, outreach, goal setting, and identification of natural supports.
Use evidence-based interventions to develop problem-solving skills, relapse-prevention plans, and anti-stigma awareness and support.
Use phone and face-to-face contact to address client questions about care and treatment and reduce barriers to follow-up care.
Assist clients with reintegration into the community and meet with them regularly as required by the department or supervisor.
Work with treatment courts and criminal-justice-involved individuals and families.
Support clients’ participation in recreational and social experiences that build community connectedness.
Participate in Mobile Crisis Response and maintain required Center in-service training.
Provide transportation to clients as needed.
Maintain positive working relationships with the communities served.
As needed, conduct community outreach; provide groups in a jail setting; facilitate resource events; support schools; provide individual or group services; and coordinate discharge follow-up for the IPU/PUC.
Coordinate with CRSS and OP departments to provide warm hand-offs for peer services following CRSS and Intake Assessment discharges.
For CRSS peers, coordinate PUC and HA-CSU discharges with Social Services, including updated ISP documentation, service-line transfers, and internal and external care coordination.
For CRSS peers, complete mobile crisis follow-up calls and HRSN, PHQ, GAD, LOCUS, and other recommended assessments as needed.
For CRSS peers, complete a Stanley Brown Safety Plan with the client and help connect the client with resources identified through the HRSN.
For CRSS peers, provide individual peer services, including IMR, Wellness Recovery Action Planning, and Motivational Interviewing.
For CRSS peers, maintain contact with PUC/HA-CSU clients’ outpatient clinicians and coordinate ongoing treatment.

Benefits

Four-day, 32-hour work week.
Mobile Crisis on-call opportunities in eligible counties, with the opportunity to earn up to an additional $625 per week.
Student loan repayment of $150 per month ($1,800 annually), available at hire.
Referral incentive of $750 for each referred person hired who remains employed for six months, plus an additional $500 annually while both remain employed.
Bilingual wage premiums available for individuals fluent in Spanish or Burmese.
Multiple health plan options.
Health premium wellness discounts.
Employer-paid HSA contributions.
Mileage reimbursement.
Dental insurance.
Vision insurance.
403(b) retirement plan.
Employer-paid life insurance and optional supplemental insurance products.
Up to $10,000 in tuition assistance.
Paid birthday off.