Chota Community Health Services
Job Title: Certified Peer Recovery Specialist (CPRS)
Department/Group: Medical Services
Location: Madisonville Clinic Travel Required: Yes
Job Category: Clinical Position Type: Full-time
Reports to: Chief Medical Officer, Clinical Services Officer
Job Description
Position Summary: The Certified Peer Recovery Specialist’s role is to support others in recovery from a substance use disorder. The
Recovery Specialist will serve as a role model, mentor, advocate and motivator to recovering individuals in order to help prevent relapse and promote long-term recovery. The Recovery Specialist must demonstrate an ability to share personal recovery experiences and to develop authentic peer-to-peer relationships. The CPRS will provide these services in an outpatient setting as part of the CCHS’s efforts to expand its mental health and substance use disorders treatment services which will include a formal intensive outpatient treatment program (IOP).
Role and Responsibilities
- Maintain project logs, reports and records in the electronic health record (EHR).
- Provide recovery education to service recipients for every phase of the recovery journey from pre-recovery engagement, recovery initiation, recovery stabilization, and sustained recovery maintenance.
- Provide a model for both people in recovery and staff by demonstrating that recovery is possible.
- Assist recovering persons to identify their personal interests, goals, strengths, and weaknesses regarding recovery.
- Assist/coach recovering persons develop their own plan for advancing their recovery; for “getting the life they want.”
- Recovery Planning -- facilitate (via personal coaching) the transition from a professionally directed service plan to a self-directed
Recovery Plan. The goal should be to transition from professionally assisted recovery initiation to personally directed, community supported recovery maintenance.
- Promote self-advocacy by assisting recovering persons to have their voices fully heard; their needs, goals and objectives established as the focal point of rehabilitation and clinical services.
- Actively identify and support linkages to community resources (communities of recovery, educational, vocational, social, cultural, spiritual resources, mutual self- help groups, professional services, etc.) that support the recovering person’s goals and interests.
This will involve a collaborative effort including the recovering person, agency staff and other relevant stakeholders.
- Support connections to community based, mutual self-help groups. Link individuals to appropriate professional resources when needed. Provide vision-driven hope and encouragement for opportunities at varying levels of involvement in community based activities (e.g., work, school, relationships, physical activity, self-directed hobbies, etc.).
- Develop relationships with community groups/agencies in partnership with others in the agency.
- As recovery specialist position evolves and knowledge increases, visit community resources with recovering persons to assist them in becoming familiar with potential opportunities.
- Identify barriers (internal and external) to full participation in community resources and developing strategies to overcome those barriers.
- Maintain contact by phone and/or e-mail with recovering person after they leave the program to insure their ongoing success and to provide re-engagement support in partnership with others in the agency if needed. Long-term engagement, support, and encouragement.
- Participate in Patient Centered Medical Home Care Team collaboration
- Regular and predictable attendance
- Conducts self in a professional manner
- Ability to cooperate and work well with others
- Attend monthly staff meetings
- Performs other duties as assigned or requested
Qualifications and Education Requirements
- Be at least eighteen (18) years of age or older.
- Hold a high school diploma or General Equivalency Degree (GED).
- Be certified by the State of Tennessee as a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist.
- Must have an understanding of and respect for each individual’s unique path to recovery.
- Must have a working knowledge of the drug and alcohol treatment system and a demonstrated commitment to the recovery community.
- Must have the understanding that employment is contingent upon receipt of a negative random drug test at a minimum of once every 3 months.
Preferred Skills
Chota Community Health Services
- Interpersonal/human relations skills
- Organizational skills
- Excellent listening skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Ability to operate personal computer and navigate medical software programs
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Team member skills
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.
Approved By: Date:
Last Updated By: Tabitha Walker Date: August 14, 2020
Employee Signature: Date:
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $15.00 - $18.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: One location
