Job Description
Provide community-based support with a rehabilitation and recovery focus using shared lived experiences in NYS OASAS regulated programs. Work as a fully integrated team member providing individual face to face services on site as well as in the client’s home or community as specified in the service protocols.
· Provides in person individualized support to individuals who have been identified with a mental health diagnosis and/or substance use.
· Serves as a role model, mentor, and advocate in order to help prevent relapse and promote long-term recovery.
· Provides strength-based rehabilitative and recovery-oriented services individually and as part of a team.
· Establish a trusting relationship with client based in mutuality and unconditional positive regard during outreach and meetings in the community and in various program settings.
· Supports client in developing and implementing a person-centered recovery plan that is relevant to the current expressed needs of the client, consistent with the Plan of Care.
· Shares personal experiences to foster a sense of hope and recovery.
· Ensures coordination of services through collaboration and consultation with other staff, providers and identified family and/or friends of clients.
· Assists client with entitlements and concrete services; working together with client, advocates on client’s behalf via telephone and written correspondence.
· Attends and participates in weekly supervision, staff meetings and periodic in-service trainings.
· Documents time, effort and tasks during working hours as required for billing.
· Produces and maintains thorough, accurate and timely documentation, including documentation of interactions with client, services provided, important information and/or events, and contacts with other agencies and service providers, as required by agency policies, and relevant contracts and regulatory agencies.
· Increases client’s awareness of recovery services and supports in the community, identifying and supporting client in removing barriers to recovery, self-efficacy, and community inclusion.
· Assists client in developing personal skills toward community inclusion, personal development, and independent living.
· Provides companionship and accompaniment to client during community, court, and medical appointments, recovery-oriented activities, and during stressful transitions such as pre- and post-admission to emergency rooms, detox units, and discharges from hospitals and jails.
· Conducts direct outreach to courts, probation, parole, hospitals, and other community-based organizations with direct referral back to the organization and its programs.
· Assists client in identifying and engaging in activities that bring to attain or sustain meaningful, healthy and satisfying lifestyles.
· Assists client to connect or reconnect and link to natural supports that enhance the quality and security of life, including self-help groups.
· Represent the organization at various community events and forum.
Requirements
- Certified Recovery Peer Advocate-CRPA or CRPA-Provisional
- Lived or work or volunteer experience in a recovery-oriented setting.
- Knowledge of substance use disorder recovery process.
- Computer literacy including familiarity of Electronic Records for billing .
- Ability to travel throughout the required catchment area as needed.
- Commitment to recovery-oriented systems of care.
- Demonstrate ability to work independently.
- Excellent time management with ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to think logically, prioritize and follow procedures and instructions
- Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.
- Experience with advocacy, outreach and engagement, self-help, recovery and transitional supports.
- Knowledge of Evidenced Based Practices (Motivational Interviewing, Contingency Management)
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $20.00 - $25.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Medical specialties:
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
License/Certification:
- CRPA or CRPA-P license (Required)
Ability to Relocate:
- Highland, NY 12528: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person