PEER RECOVERY SUPPORT SPECIALIST

Job Description/Summary

The Peer Recovery Support Specialist draws upon their lived experience to carry a message of hope and recovery to individuals who are experiencing a substance use disorder. By offering encouragement, support, outreach, service linkages, and advocacy. The PRSS cultivates and secures a connection with the parent/caregiver while coaching the parent/caregiver to achieve recovery goals and modeling personal responsibility. As part of their job responsibilities, the PRSS may be asked to provide direct services to individuals such as outreach and engagement, personal assistance in the completion of daily living skills, linkage to community supports, transportation, in-home services and advocacy.

Essential Job Function

Reinforces, guides and ensures parents/caregivers and their families that recovery is possible, and is built on multiple strengths, coping abilities and resources of each individual
Assists parents/caregivers with gaining skills and resources needed to initiate and maintain recovery
Assists in establishing and sustaining a social and physical environment supportive of recovery
Enhances identification and participation in the recovery community
Empowers parents/caregivers to make self-determined and self-directed choices about their recovery pathway
In collaboration with the parent/caregiver, develops a Recovery Plan which should include culturally competent and relevant services that identifies goals with measurable objectives, assesses strengths, can be used to work toward those goals, identifies barriers that can inhibit goal attainment, and monitors the progress made attaining those goals
Attend all Family Team Meetings and Focus on Supervision, as requested, participates in case consultation with parent/caregiver and DCP&P case worker, attend consortia (if parent/caregiver is presented), attend agency staff meetings

Qualifications

High school diploma or equivalency, Bachelor’s Degree is preferred
Communication Skills: written and verbal
Basic Computer skills
Valid Driver’s License
Must be 21 years of age
Knowledge of addictions preferred
At least 2 continuous years of sustained recovery
Must pass a pre-employment drug test and background check fingerprinting