FEP Peer Support Specialist

GHI Gateway Healthcare • Pawtucket, RI

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Peer Recovery Specialist provides peer support and care coordination to adults with mental health and substance use needs as part of a multidisciplinary team delivering outreach, engagement, and system support. Drawing on personal recovery experience, the specialist serves as a role model, mentor, advocate, and motivator to encourage treatment engagement, help prevent relapse, and promote long-term recovery. The role supports clients in directing their recovery, building skills and community connections, identifying goals and strengths, and developing wellness and personal control. Brown University Health employees are expected to role model the organization’s values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence in interactions with patients, customers, and colleagues.

Requirements

• Personal recovery from a mental health and/or substance use condition and experience using services related to that recovery.
• High school diploma or GED.
• Ability to complete certification as a peer recovery specialist.
• At least two years of sobriety or absence of drug use.
• Valid driver’s license and use of a car during normal working hours, or another means of transportation to complete major job functions.
• Self-identify as a current or former user of mental health or co-occurring services and be able to relate to people who have not used those services.
• Demonstrated proficiency in reading and writing.
• Ability to establish trusting relationships with peers.
• Ability to work independently and as an integral member of a multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to recognize early triggers and signs of relapse.
• Ability to use a computer to record services or willingness to learn.

Nice To Haves

• Training on relevant topics such as behavioral health, substance use, and chronic health conditions.

Responsibilities

• Support adults with mental health and substance use challenges, including general outpatient and substance use disorder clients as assigned.
• Help individuals direct their own recovery process and coach them in acquiring and using recovery skills.
• Help clients identify strengths, abilities, needs, and personal recovery goals, and advocate for themselves during treatment.
• Encourage use of natural resources and community support systems, and accompany clients to help them access services.
• Promote wellness, self-worth, and personal control over clients’ lives and recovery journeys.
• Share lived experience and lessons learned, model recovery and coping skills, and inspire hope.
• Assist with orientation for people new to mental health or co-occurring treatment.
• Provide culturally sensitive, trauma-informed support relevant to individual recovery needs.
• Support clients in connecting or reconnecting with family, friends, and significant others, and in improving or ending unhealthy relationships.
• Co-facilitate meetings that nurture a peer support culture.
• At the client’s request, foster spiritual connections with faith-based organizations and/or participation in self-help and mutual support groups.
• Follow policies and procedures for recovery-oriented treatment.
• Participate in supervision, team conferences, department meetings, and agency meetings.
• Maintain detailed, accurate, and timely medical-record documentation.
• Follow agency policies and standards concerning client rights and confidentiality.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED