Peer Recovery Support Specialist

Sage Counseling•Phoenix, AZ

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

Peer Recovery Support Specialists at SAGE Counseling assist clients involved in the criminal justice system or re-entering the community. This role provides personalized support, leveraging lived experience to help clients navigate resources and achieve their goals. The position involves facilitating groups, addressing social determinants of health, and connecting clients to various services like primary care, recovery groups, behavioral health, medication-assisted treatment, and employment opportunities. Specialists utilize coaching, mentoring, and role modeling based on established PRSS credentialed practices. Interventions focus on identifying needs, reducing isolation, increasing practical knowledge, exploring education/employment, collaborating with healthcare practitioners, and overcoming service barriers. While primarily office-based, there's potential for remote work, but the majority of the schedule involves in-person client meetings and travel across Maricopa County to SAGE clinics and sites. SAGE provides necessary equipment.

Requirements

Must have a Peer Recovery Support Specialist (PRSS) credential via an AHCCCS-recognized credentialing agency.
Minimum 1 year in self-managed recovery.
For former SAGE clients, must be at least 6 months post-discharge from all SAGE programming.
Must have current Fingerprint Clearance Card.
Must maintain vehicle insurance and clean driving record.
Must pass background check.
Must have the ability to work cooperatively with people of diverse backgrounds.
Must have good verbal and interpersonal skills to interact with clients, visitors, and coworkers.

Nice To Haves

Forensic PRSS credential preferred.
Bilingual in Spanish is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide personalized supports to criminal justice involved clients who may benefit from meeting with someone with lived experience to navigate both natural and professional resources in accordance with goals identified in the client’s service plan.
Facilitate bimonthly or monthly groups to facilitate skill-building and linkage to community resources.
Assess and address social determinants of health that impact progress toward goals, including intensive facilitation of access to resources and care coordination (including, but not limited to, facilitating connection to primary care, recovery groups, behavioral health homes, medication assisted treatment, and employment).
Utilize coaching, mentoring, and role modeling using lived experience according to established PRSS credentialed practices.
Interventions may include, but are not limited to, identifying needs and recovery goals, lessening feelings of isolation, increasing practical knowledge to access supports and resources in the community, exploring continued education and/or employment opportunities, partnering with other healthcare practitioners, and overcoming service barriers.