Peer Recovery Support Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

Our Core Values:
The culture at Prism Health North Texas is built on our shared Core Values. We make hiring, firing, promotion, and performance review decisions based on these values and behaviors, so it is important that you also share these Core Values:

• We are solution seekers.
• We have a can-do attitude.
• We are mission-driven.
• We care about people.

General Description:
The Peer Recovery Support Specialist is a peer support worker who has been successful in the recovery process and who assists others experiencing similar situations.  Through shared understanding, respect, and mutual empowerment, peer support workers help people become and stay engaged in the recovery process and reduce the likelihood of relapse. Responsibilities Specific Responsibilities of the Job:

• Conduct peer mentoring and coaching.
• Provide referrals to recovery and community resources.
• Promote utilization of and access to behavioral health and supportive services.
• Provide advocacy for people in recovery engaged in co-occurring care services (mental health and substance misuse).
• Facilitate and lead recovery support groups.
• Provide goal planning to support patient self-direction, empowerment, and choice through the recovery process.
• Utilize and share recovery lived experience to empower and support patient growth in recovery process.
• Provide services and/or training as appropriate.
• Build community relationships and resource networks to enhance patient access and referral processes.
• Engage in recovery support advocacy efforts with public stakeholders and policymakers.
• Engage in outreach efforts to increase participation in program offerings.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Skills Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Recovery-oriented: hold out hope to those they serve and help those they serve identify and build strengths and empower them to choose for themselves, recognizing there are multiple pathways to recovery.
Person-centered: align with the specific hopes, goals, and preferences of the people served and respond to specific needs of patients.
Relationship-focused: build a respectful, trusting, empathetic, collaborative, and mutual relationship with patients.
Trauma-informed: utilize a strength-based framework that emphasizes physical, psychological, and emotional safety and create opportunities for survivors to rebuild a sense of control and empowerment.
Proficient interpersonal skills including the ability to function in a team setting and to communicate effectively with staff at program and leadership levels.

Education and Experience:

• Associate degree in Human/Social Services or relevant field preferred.
• Holds lived experience in the recovery process from mental health and/or substance misuse conditions.  The Peer Recovery Support Specialist is open to skillfully sharing their story and using their lived experience as a way of inspiring and supporting a person living with behavioral health conditions.
• Completed certification for Recovery Support Peer Specialist (RSPS) through the Texas Certification Board is preferred or must be able to obtain the RSPS certification within the first 60 days.