Parenting Certified Recovery Specialist - MATER

Parenting Certified Recovery Specialist

The Certified Recovery Specialist will provide support and assistance to program clients with the ultimate goal of successful community-integration. Through formal and informal interactions, the Peer Recovery Specialist should inspire hope of recovery by promoting empowerment, self-determination, understanding, coping skills, and resiliency through mentoring as well as service coordination. Peer recovery support responsibilities are designed around the principles of consumer choice and the active involvement of persons in their own recovery process.

Essential functions include:

• Meeting with treatment applicants to orient them to the recovery model of care with the goal of facilitating engagement.
• Conducting individual and group sessions focusing on principles of recovery.
• Advising clients of available service options and choices.
• Promoting the utilization of natural resources within the community.
• Contacting patients whose engagement appears to waver.
• Maintaining intensive recovery contact with patients completing a course of care and ensuring the ongoing availability of support as needed.
• Interacting with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the iSCORE values of Jefferson.
• Connecting families with city-wide resources for the child, dyad, and caregiver, offering parenting coaching.
• Legal Advocacy Support through coordination of CLS referral support and Philly Voice for Change referral support.
• Meeting with all new clients and current clients as referred by their counselor around parenting support needs (i.e., referral to Mindfulness Based Parenting group).

Educational/training requirements include:

High School Diploma or GED. Some college courses and/or an associate or bachelor's degree preferred. Completion of a period of Certified Recovery Specialist training.

Certificates, licenses, and registration:

Recovery or Peer Support Specialist Certification required.

Experience requirements:

Related background experience in case management, and/or counseling preferred. Two-year history of sustained behavioral health recovery.

Workday Day (United States of America)

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Thomas Jefferson University

1233 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.