Peer Specialist

LIGHTSHARE BEHAVIORAL WELLNESS & RECOVERY•Sarasota, FL

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About The Position

The Peer Specialist provides peer coaching and mentoring to clients and graduates of First Step Recovery Programs as part of their Discharge Continuing Care Plan. The role promotes recovery through community services and helps remove barriers to recovery. The position is associated with the CORT (Community Offender Rehabilitative Treatment) program, a partnership with Sarasota County Corrections providing secure residential behavioral health treatment for male offenders at the Sarasota County Corrections Facility. The program offers intensive supervision and evidence-based rehabilitation for felony offenders who are incarcerated and awaiting sentencing, or who are sentenced to serve the remainder of their sentence in the program. Treatment focuses on substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders, changing criminal thinking patterns, stabilization, and community transition through vocational training and peer support. Lightshare emphasizes Compassion, Acceptance, Respect, Empowerment, and Stewardship in its work. Lightshare Behavioral Wellness & Recovery is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
Knowledge of substance abuse treatment.
Working knowledge of community resources.
Advocacy skills.
Strong people skills to provide excellent internal and external customer service.

Nice To Haves

Certification in Recovery Coaching or Peer-to-Peer Counseling.

Responsibilities

Serve as a personal guide and mentor in managing personal and family recovery through follow-up contact and connections to recovery-community services.
Help clients remove personal and environmental obstacles to recovery by assessing needs and community services.
Connect clients with the recovery community using relevant knowledge and contacts, and establish trusting, collaborative relationships directed toward members’ individual needs.
Support and motivate clients to encourage participation in aftercare appointments.
Refer clients to outside agencies as needed and provide accurate, timely documentation in charts.
Maintain interdepartmental and intradepartmental workflow by fostering cooperation.
Maintain required paperwork and billing documentation.
Perform other duties as assigned.