Bilingual Peer Recovery Specialist (Spanish/English)

Public Health Management Corporation; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

PHMC's Forensic Services department seeks a full-time Bilingual Peer Recovery Specialist (Spanish/English) to provide peer support to participants in the Philadelphia Treatment Court Enhancement Project. The role serves individuals at high clinical need with a caseload of about 35 participants.

You will collaborate with case managers to deliver recovery services, including substance abuse treatment, counseling, education, housing coordination, and employment support, traveling to program sites

Qualifications

• Must be bilingual in Spanish and English.
• High school diploma or GED required.
• Must have lived experience in the area of substance abuse.
• Must have lived experience with the criminal justice system.
• Preferred: Lived experience with mental health concerns.
• Must be a Certified Recovery Specialist (CRS) or Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) at time of hire or within the first 90 days of employment.
• 1-2 years of experience collaborating with individuals with substance use and/or mental health disorders.

Responsibilities

• Provide regular face-to-face meetings and phone contacts with participants to identify strengths and challenges to support recovery.
• Identify community linkages to support recovery efforts, including job readiness, educational, vocational, medical, mental, housing, and family support.
• Provide additional support to participants who find court and/or treatment compliance challenging.
• Provide new participants with initial outreach and orientation to the program.
• Provide outreach to participants at treatment facilities and in the community to support engagement throughout participation in Treatment Court.
• Attend case management team meetings.
• Accompany individuals to appointments as needed to model interaction and provide support.
• Engage Treatment Court participants by sharing personal story of recovery.
• May attend recovery plan meetings with participant and assigned case manager.
• Assist participants in recovery in areas such as self-esteem enhancement, conflict resolution, assertiveness, and other recovery skills.
• Meet participants at community-based appointments such as self-help meetings (AA, NA), physician appointments, food pantry, etc.
• Alert the case management unit to any current or potential behavioral or health-related problems of participants.
• Complete GPRA assessments along with all other PHMC required assessments.
• Provide comprehensive wellness support to participants, which includes routine primary care and mental health services.

Skills

Behavioral health

Team collaboration

Documentation

Recovery philosophy

Therapeutic relationships

Reentry services

Co-occurring disorders

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

PHMC's Forensic Services department seeks a full-time Bilingual Peer Recovery Specialist (Spanish/English) to provide peer support to participants in the Philadelphia Treatment Court Enhancement Project. The role serves individuals at high clinical need with a caseload of about 35 participants.

You will collaborate with case managers to deliver recovery services, including substance abuse treatment, counseling, education, housing coordination, and employment support, traveling to program sites