Peer Recovery Specialist / ACT
CIBH MENTAL HLTH SVC
The Peer Recovery Specialist (PRS) is a fully integrated team member having a “lived experience” and a personal recovery story specific to primary mental illness.
This Peer Recovery Specialist provides highly individualized services in the community and promotes the self-determination and shared decision-making abilities of individuals. Responsible for providing peer support services to individuals diagnosed with serious mental health and/or substance abuse disorders.
The Peer Recovery Specialist demonstrates proficiency in personal recovery skills and utilize coping skills in order to serve as a role model to individuals served. Provides education regarding wellness and recovery, self-advocacy, community integration, and may assist individuals with basic physical, financial, social, personal, and other recovery needs of daily living.
This Peer Recovery Specialist serves as an advocate for individuals receiving (ACT) and assist them with creating a recovery-based environment. Promotes recovery, self-determination, and personal growth by supporting individuals as they identify personal goals and create wellness driven recovery plans.
Typical duties include:
This Peer Recovery Specialist provides highly individualized services in the community and promotes the self-determination and shared decision-making abilities of individuals. Responsible for providing peer support services to individuals diagnosed with serious mental health and/or substance abuse disorders.
The Peer Recovery Specialist demonstrates proficiency in personal recovery skills and utilize coping skills in order to serve as a role model to individuals served. Provides education regarding wellness and recovery, self-advocacy, community integration, and may assist individuals with basic physical, financial, social, personal, and other recovery needs of daily living.
This Peer Recovery Specialist serves as an advocate for individuals receiving (ACT) and assist them with creating a recovery-based environment. Promotes recovery, self-determination, and personal growth by supporting individuals as they identify personal goals and create wellness driven recovery plans.
Typical duties include:
- Assist individuals in building social skills within the community.
- Assist individuals in identifying personal recovery goals through the use of individual and group sessions, focusing on the individuals’ skills, strengths, supports, and resources in order to aid them in achieving these goals.
- Teach/train recovery information and recovery tools (i.e.: WRAP, etc.) in order to assist individuals in developing individualized wellness and recovery plans,
- Model personal responsibility, self-advocacy, and wellness via telling of their own recovery story (comfortable sharing coping strategies utilized in order to maintain their recovery)
- Support individuals’ employment and/or education choices and assist them in choosing a vocation that matches their strengths and desires, assist with overcoming job-related anxiety by reviewing job applications, and providing interview tips and resume assistance.
- Assist individuals with obtaining services that meet the individual’s identified needs, desires, and recovery goals.
- Assist individuals with accessing community resources and identifying natural supports.
- Assist individuals in setting up and sustaining self-help (mutual support) groups, as well as means of locating and joining existing groups.
- Maintain accurate case files consistent with agency guidelines and licensure standards.
- Collaborate regularly with treatment team members, other services providers, and significant others as necessary.
- Attend staff meetings, case review meetings, and staff training activities as required.
- Transport individuals as necessary
- Work a flexible work schedule to include evenings, weekends and holidays, as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
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