Peer Support Specialist

North Star Behavioral Health, Ltd; Anchorage (AK); On-site; USD 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

The Peer Support Specialist at North Star Behavioral Health, Ltd provides peer-based support and education to patients and families as an adjunct to clinical services, helping guide recovery pathways with hope and lived experience. You will collaborate with master's level clinicians to support patient needs in a professional, compassionate manner throughout care and transitions.

Responsibilities include facilitating readiness for change, MI-based coaching, connecting to community resources,

Qualifications

• Facilitates patient readiness for change using motivational interviewing and encourages plans to reduce or stop drug/alcohol use.
• Models coping techniques and self-help strategies for recovery.
• Assists patients in setting personal recovery goals and developing recovery care plans.
• Connects patients with community support and treatment services to promote recovery.
• Helps patients and families understand how to access community resources.
• Assists patients in linking to community resources, including transportation and other services.
• Provides peer support during program, discharge planning, and transitions throughout care.
• Provides education and recovery materials to family and social support networks.
• Educates about overdose risks and ensures naloxone is available and properly used.
• Participates in trainings to continually gain new skills.
• Attends required meetings as needed.
• Completes required documentation for care.
• Acts as a resource to other clinical team members on recovery support.
• Assists in running inpatient groups as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Responsibilities

• Provide peer-based support and education to patients and families, complementing clinical services.
• Support recovery pathways using lived experience to inspire hope and resilience.
• Collaborate with clinical staff to address patient needs and transitions.
• Assist in connecting patients with community resources and transportation.

Skills

Motivational interviewing

Coping techniques

Recovery planning

Community resources

Naloxone training

Documentation

Team collaboration

Inpatient groups

Education materials

Unspecified duties

Meetings attendance

Resource to clinical team

Adaptability

Care transitions

Patient and family support

Job description

Responsibilities

Position Summary: The Peer Support Specialist is responsible for providing support and education to patients and family members that serve as an adjunct to direct clinical services and enhance patient’s personal pathway to recovery. The Peer Support Specialist will work alongside the master's level clinical positions to support patients' needs in a professional manner, using their lived experience to move patients towards healing while in our care, bring hope into the therapeutic process that is personal, and be a living example that a person can overcome life challenges.

Qualifications

• 1. Facilitates patient’s readiness for change and uses motivational interviewing techniques and other communication skills to support and encourage the patient to plan for reduction or elimination of drug and alcohol use.
  15%
• 2. Models coping techniques and self-help strategies.
  13%
• 3. Assist patients in setting personal recovery goals and developing recovery care plans.
  10%
• 4. Works with addiction treatment and recovery care team and patient to connect with community support and treatment services to promote recovery.
  5%
• 5. Supports patients and families to understand how to access community resources.
  5%
• 6. Assist patients in linking to community support and treatment services, including helping secure transportation and other resources.
  5%
• 7. Acts as peer support during the Program, discharge planning, and care transitions throughout the continuum of care.
  10%
• 8. Provides family and social support network members with education and recovery support materials.
  10%
• 9. Provides education on risks of overdose and assures that patients and significant others have naloxone and are trained to use it.
  2%
• 10. Participates in trainings to continually gain new skills.
  2%
• 11. Attends required meetings as required.
  2%
• 12. Completes required documentation.
  5%
• 13. Acts as a resource to other clinical team members on recovery support.
  2%
• 14. Assist in running Inpatient groups as needed.
  8%
• 15. Performs other duties as assigned/required by this position.
  2 %