Peer Recovery Specialist

Are you a compassionate and caring individual interested in using your lived experience with mental illness and/or substance use and recovery to model wellness, recovery, and resiliency?

Chesapeake Integrated Behavioral Health (CIBH) is seeking a Peer Recovery Specialist to support peers in their mental health and/or substance use recovery by modeling personal responsibility, self-advocacy, and wellness via telling your recovery story; assisting them in identifying personal recovery goals; and developing and utilizing recovery plans with the skills, strengths, supports, and resources to aid them in achieving those goals.

You will also complete required annual compliance training and participate actively and constructively in program and professional development.

Reads, comprehends, and adheres to the Corporate Compliance and HIPAA policies and procedures. Report any violations, inconsistencies, or discrepancies about the Corporate Compliance policies and procedures or the HIPAA policies and procedures to the supervisor or appropriate authority.

TYPICAL TASKS

· Assist individuals in identifying personal recovery goals through the use of individual and group

sessions. Support individuals as they create goals; develop recovery plans with the skills, strengths,

supports, and resources to aid them in achieving those goals

· Teach/train recovery information and recovery tools to assist individuals in developing individualized wellness and recovery plans.

· Model personal responsibility, self-advocacy, and wellness via telling of their own recovery story

· Support individuals’ vocational choices and assist them in choosing a job that matches their

strengths, overcoming job-related anxiety by reviewing job applications, and providing interview tips and resume assistance

· Assist individuals with obtaining services that meet their 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

· Collaborate regularly with treatment team members, other services providers, and significant others as necessary

· Maintain accurate Medicaid standard case files consistent with agency guidelines and licensure

standards

· Performs other related duties as assigned