Job Description
General Description OneFifteen is a non-profit healthcare ecosystem dedicated to the full and sustained recovery of people suffering from drug addiction. OneFifteen has developed a tech-enabled system of care that offers a treatment center, rehabilitation housing, and wrap-around services, all on one state-of-the-art campus. OneFifteen deploys a learning healthcare system to advance our understanding of addiction medicine and the best strategies to promote sustained recovery. Our ultimate goal is to support individuals to live healthy, fulfilling lives free of addiction. As such, we will focus on a patient-centered experience and ensure a patient’s whole health needs are fully met, including biopsychosocial needs.
The Peer Support Specialist will collaborate with other team members to provide best-practice care with an innovative spirit and help drive a holistic approach to care and reduce stigma. At the same time, the Peer Support Specialist will be comfortable working in ambiguous situations and blend best-in-class care delivery models with advanced technology solutions to engage care team members, improve outcomes, and reduce costs.
Peer Support Specialist is a person with lived experience responsible for promoting resiliency and recovery, self-determination, advocacy, well-being, and skill development with patients served. The Peer Support Specialist will support individuals or families in addressing needs, navigating systems, and promoting recovery, resiliency, and wellness.
The Peer Support Specialist is an active member of the team under the direct supervision of the Peer Support Supervisor or Designee The Peer Support Specialist is responsible for exhibiting competency in personal recovery and use of coping skills, serving as an advocate, and providing information about peer support. The Peer Support Specialist performs a wide range of tasks to assist clients in regaining independence within the community and ownership over their own recovery process. The Peer Support Specialist may provide services in the community, including at other agencies, correction sites, and in the home.
Duties and Responsibilities - Provide Peer Support services to coordinate clinical care in the form of face-to-face, telephone calls, telehealth visits and case conference meetings.
- Assist individuals with identifying their personal interests, goals, strengths and weaknesses regarding recovery and promote self-advocacy by assisting individuals in expressing their voice, needs, goals, and objectives.
- Assist individuals with identifying barriers to full participation in community resources and using creative problem-solving to develop strategies to overcome those barriers.
- Actively identify and support linkages to community resources (communities of recovery, educational, vocational, social, cultural, spiritual resources, mutual self-help groups, professional services, etc.) that support the individual’s goals and interests. Collaborate with internal team members from other disciplines when considering appropriate linkage to services.
- Provide vision-driven hope and encouragement for opportunities at varying levels of involvement in community-based activities (e.g., work, school, relationships, physical activity, self-directed hobbies, etc.).
- Provide recovery education to individuals for every phase of the recovery journey, from pre-recovery engagement, recovery initiation, recovery stabilization, and sustained recovery maintenance
- Complete all documentation in the required time frames.
- Coordinate services with the assigned care team and transport clients as appropriate.
- Assure documentation is completed per OMHAS, regulatory, and agency requirements following best practices.
- Complete documentation within a specified timeframe using Electronic Medical Records.
- Attend required meetings, including individual and group supervision, treatment team meetings, training, and community events as appropriate.
- Other duties as assigned.
Schedule:
- FT Sat-Mon 6p-6a[36 hours]
Shift Differential for any hours worked between 10p and 6a as well as additional Shift Differential for hours worked on Saturdays and Sundays.
Knowledge and Skills - Excellent verbal and written communication skills; strong teamwork and organization/time management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Knowledge of community agency and resources.
- Computer and typing skills. Must be able to use an electronic health record system.
Education and Experience
Minimum:
- Must be a person with a lived experience of substance use disorder or mental health and must be a person in recovery.
- Must satisfy relevant state requirements for Certified Peer Recovery Supporter, including being registered as a Certified Ohio Peer Recovery Supporter in Ohio.
Preferred: - Active affiliation with appropriate professional networks and organizations and ongoing community involvement are preferred.
Work Conditions and Physical Requirements - Work Setting: Indoors, environmentally controlled
- Body Positioning: § Spend time sitting and standing, making repetitive motions, spend time using hands to handle, control or feel objects, tools or controls. Frequently lift or move up to 10 lbs. and occasionally lift or move up to 50 lbs.
- Communication: Contact with others, electronic mail, in-person discussions, public speaking, telephone, video
The above duties and responsibilities may be essential job functions subject to reasonable accommodations. All job requirements listed include the minimum knowledge, skills, and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. This job description is not to be constructed as an exhausted statement of duties, responsibilities, and requirements. Employees may be required to perform any other job-related instructions as requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodations.
OneFifteen is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination in employment, training, job duties, compensation, evaluation, promotion, and any other term or condition of employment based on race, ethnicity, age, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, physical or mental handicap, developmental disability, genetic information, human immunodeficiency virus status, or in any manner prohibited by local, state or federal laws.
Job Tags
Full time, Local area, Shift work, Weekend work, Sunday, Saturday,