Certified Recovery Specialist - MATER
About The Position
The Certified Recovery Specialist will provide support and assistance to program clients with the ultimate goal of successful of community-integration. Through formal and informal interactions, the Peer Recovery Specialist should inspire hope of recovery by promoting empowerment, self-determination, understanding, coping skills, and resiliency through mentoring as well as service coordination. Peer recovery support responsibilities are designed around the principles of consumer choice and the active involvement of persons in their own recovery process.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or GED. Some college courses and or an associate or bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Completion of a period of Certified Recovery Specialist training
- Recovery or Peer Support Specialist Certification required
- Two-year history of sustained behavioral health recovery.
Nice To Haves
- Related background experience in case management, and/or counseling preferred.
Responsibilities
- Meets with treatment applicants for the purpose of orienting them to the recovery model of care with the goal of facilitating engagement.
- Conducts individual and group sessions focusing on principles of recovery.
- Advises clients of available service options and choices
- Promotes the utilization of natural resources within the community;
- Contacts patients whose engagement appears to waver.
- Maintains intensive recovery contact with patients completing a course of care and ensuring the ongoing availability of support as needed.
- Interact with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the iSCORE values of Jefferson.
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 diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
