Recovery Advocate & Certified Peer Specialist

Child & Family Services, Inc.; Fall River (MA); On-site; USD 27,552 - 41,328; Full time

Job summary

Child & Family Services, Inc. seeks a Certified Peer Specialist to provide non-clinical, recovery-oriented peer support to Members receiving behavioral health services, drawing on lived experience to inspire hope and support personal wellness goals.

You will collaborate across crisis, recovery planning, and community resources, document care, and support transitions across health and behavioral health services in community-based or outpatient settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide a safe, welcoming, and clean environment for clients and families.
• Provide trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, person-centered care based on the unique needs of clients.
• Participate in triage, screening, and intake processes to ensure same-day access to services and complete necessary documentation.
• Assist clients and families with exploring and identifying areas of need (housing, insurance, food assistance, education, career, and other case management related needs).
• Establish trusting, strength-based relationships and support clients as equals on their wellness and recovery journey.
• Use lived experience and appropriate self-disclosure in a safe, ethical, and purposeful manner to inspire hope and model recovery.
• Assist in facilitation of CBHC’s family and peer support services by sharing lived experience, strengths, and hope through individual, family, or group services as appropriate.
• Provide advocacy, coaching, training, support, and psychoeducation to clients and families.
• Complete internal and external referrals based on individualized needs, including links to peer/parent support, self-help groups, community resources, and pro-social activities.
• Support clients in identifying goals, developing or updating wellness plans, and building skills to sustain recovery.
• Assist clients and families with navigating systems within schools and community as appropriate.
• Support transitions of care and engage in effective coordination across health and behavioral health services to facilitate wellness and recovery of the whole person, including outreach, engagement, and after-care planning.
• Utilize evidence-based interventions, including motivational interviewing skills to empower clients and develop person-centered service plans.
• Provide crisis intervention and coordinate with emergency services as appropriate.
• Serve as a community educator by providing psychoeducation to relevant community providers.
• Deliver services in community-based, outpatient, home, workplace, crisis, diversionary, or remote settings when safe and appropriate.
• Provide temporary transportation support when available through the organization and when used to support essential peer, medical, behavioral health, or community-based appointments.
• Maintain record-keeping as required by CFS, funding sources, and accreditation authorities.
• Participate in all supervision and training activities as required by CFS, funding sources, and accreditation authorities.
• Keep Evolv and Outlook calendars up to date to support implementation of centralized scheduling.

Job description

Child & Family Services, Inc. seeks a Certified Peer Specialist to provide non-clinical, recovery-oriented peer support to Members receiving behavioral health services, drawing on lived experience to inspire hope and support personal wellness goals.

You will collaborate across crisis, recovery planning, and community resources, document care, and support transitions across health and behavioral health services in community-based or outpatient settings.