Job Description

Job Location: 1700 EDUCATION AVE - PUNTA GORDA, FL 33950

Position Type: Part TimeEducation Level: High School

Salary Range: $17.25 - $18.82 Hourly

Travel Percentage: Road Warrior

Job Shift: Day

Job Category: Nonprofit - Social Services$500 Sign-on Bonus

The Peer Support Specialist provides outreach, engagement, and recovery support services to individuals eligible for the SOR program. Utilizing lived experience and a recovery-oriented approach, this position offers one-on-one and group peer support, education, advocacy, and guidance to individuals and their families. The Peer Support Specialist collaborates with the multidisciplinary treatment team to coordinate care, assess ongoing needs and risks, connect individuals to community resources and self-help supports, and promote sustained recovery and treatment engagement. Responsibilities include making appropriate referrals, supporting recovery goal development, documenting services provided, and helping individuals access resources that address substance use, mental health, family, financial, and other social determinants impacting overall well-being.

Key Responsibilities

• Works as part of the SOR program, to provide outreach to individuals who may be eligible for SOR and to provide peer services to program participants
• Provides practical advice, suggestions, and strategies of recovery to patients as an empowering helper with the perspective of being a recipient of services in the past.
• Provide one-on-one support and group sessions.
• Work with individuals and families to prevent crisis and promote treatment engagement, while assessing risk ongoing. May help individuals deal with addictions and substance use; family, parenting, and marital problems; suicide; stress management; financial issues; and issues associated with aging and mental and emotional health. Must be very familiar with and actively refer to various social services resources in Charlotte and surrounding counties
• Provide hope, support, education, and assist patients in setting recovery goals.
• Provide input, as part of the treatment team, on the patient’s care
• Employee will work closely with SOR CM and other members of the multidisciplinary treatment team to coordinate services for individuals determined to be in need.
• Employee will make appropriate internal and external referrals, monitor the implementation of services, and provide support and advocacy for the individual.
• Will assist with linking patients to self-help groups and community supports that will help sustain continued recovery
• Document in patient record.

Benefits

Must meet eligibility requirements

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 403b Retirement Plan, with 9% employer contribution for those who meet eligibility requirements.
• Tuition reimbursement, Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible, and Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) loan repayment eligible for qualifying staff.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Experience working with persons with mental health and/or substance use disorders preferred.
• Peer Specialist certification eligible or can obtain within one (1) year of hire date.
• Able to manage stressful situations and display appropriate work demeanor and boundaries.
• Demonstrate excellent customer service.
• Must maintain high standards of ethical and professional conduct, while adhering to agency policies and procedures
• Must have valid Florida driver’s license that reflects a safe driving record and use of personal vehicle
• Must have good computer skills in order to enter and retrieve information into an electronic medical record
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Ability to lift at least 10 pounds.
• Moderate manual dexterity.
• Ability to move quickly during a crisis.
• Ability to sit and stand for long periods.

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