Certified Peer Specialist I
Purpose: The Certified Peer Specialist I will align his/her scope of work with Jawonio’s Mission, while incorporating Jawonio’s Core Values as the guiding principle for all work activities.
Summary: Delivers peer support, psychosocial rehabilitation, and family support/training services to members of the Community-Oriented Recovery Services (CORE) program. Ensures members receive person-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally competent services within a rehabilitation and recovery focus in their homes or their community. Facilitates the utilization of natural resources and the enhancement of recovery-oriented principles with the intention to assist individuals with initiating recovery, maintaining health and wellness, and enhancing the quality of personal and family life for long-term recovery. Provides assistance and support for Saturday programming in the Personalized Recovery Oriented Services (PROS) program.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Oversee and manage a caseload of members that are enrolled in the CORE services program, seeing them on a 1:1 basis as needed, wanted, and defined by an individualized service plan.
- Help individuals work on goals such as community connectedness, development of natural resources, physical and mental health wellness, education, employment, self-help, and independent living skills.
- Provide services in a person-centered, goal-oriented, trauma-informed, and culturally competent approach which includes advocacy, outreach and engagement, self-help tools, recovery supports, transitional supports, pre-crisis and crisis supports.
- Assist in selecting and utilizing self-directed and evidence-based recovery tools, including but not limited to Wellness and Recovery Plans (WRAP) OR Relapse Prevention Planning, with members to develop skills for long-term recovery.
- Provide health coaching and recovery support, especially on issues of self-advocacy, wellness self-management, medication adherence, smoking cessation, entitlements, and daily living activities.
- Assist with and coordinate transportation to appointments, including provision of travel training as needed.
- Accompany members to behavioral health, medical and/or other appointments to support and facilitate engagement and follow-through as needed.
- Act as a linkage to community services including medical, behavioral, residential, entitlement and any other needed services.
- Coordinate and communicate care planning with other providers of services.
- Communicates and works with members, their families, and professional staff (both internal and external) to help ensure member growth and recovery.
- Assists in planning and facilitation of groups, social/recreational activities and outings for participants during PROS Danny’s Promise programming on Saturdays.
- Completes all mandated documentation requirements by Jawonio and regulating agencies within prescribed deadlines including but not limited to the following:
- Individualized service plans
- Individual progress notes
- Discharge summaries
- Complete required trainings and pass post-training tests in the areas of psychosocial rehabilitation, trauma-informed care, person-centered planning, shared decision making, motivational interviewing and wellness self-management.
- Helps ensure appropriate safeguards for participants are developed and maintained.
- Serve as a role model for peers, with positive behaviors, ethical practice and demonstrating compassion for those who attend/participate in program services.
- Embraces team approach, attending and participating in staff meetings and mentoring new peer staff.
- Attends all required interdisciplinary and team conferences and special meetings both in and outside of the agency to determine appropriate programs and recovery plans for participants.
- Provides individual and group coverage for program members as needed when other CORE staff are unavailable.
- Maintains safe and orderly work environment and work area.