Recovery & Wellness Peer Support Specialist

University Of New Mexico - Hospitals; Los Lunas (NM); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Part time

Job summary

University of New Mexico - Hospitals is seeking a role within the BH Response Team-Pro Fees to coordinate and provide services and resources to individuals and families to promote rehabilitation, recovery, and resiliency. You will identify strengths and barriers to enhance independent functioning in the community and support crisis situations with personalized interventions.

The position involves patient-centered care across various age groups, collaboration with medical providers, and

Qualifications

• Related Education and Experience may be substituted for one another on a year for year basis.
• Education: Essential: High School or GED Equivalent
• Experience: Essential: 1 year directly related experience
• Nonessential: Bilingual English/Keres, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, Zuni, or Navajo

Responsibilities

• PATIENT SAFETY 1 - Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures and protocols
• PATIENT SAFETY 2 - Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes
• PATIENT SAFETY 3 - Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk
• PATIENT SAFETY 4 - Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors and/or near misses in a timely manner
• PATIENT SAFETY 5 - Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may not seem right
• PATIENT CENTERED MED - Adhere to and promote the core expectations of the Patient Centered Medical Home or Patient Centered Specialty Practice as applicable
• NAVIGATION/ PATIENT ADVOCACY - Work to eliminate barriers to access to culturally competent medical services for all patients. Assist patients to access community resources, and financial assistance programs and services that are needed
• COLLABORATION - Collaborate with medical providers, multidisciplinary team members and community resource providers to assist patient to meet above described treatment goals
• LIFE SKILLS - Facilitate and encourage the development of skills in the following areas: activities of daily living, interpersonal coping, socialization, & community functioning. Based on the needs of the individual, this could include facilitating adaptation to home, school, work, recreational, and social environments; pro-active self-care, nutrition, & money management
• DEVELOPMENT - Plan for professional growth related to professional goals based on self-assessment, evaluation and feedback; assume responsibility for acquiring knowledge and experiences to meet goals
• WELLNESS - Offer information and resources to provide patient information on their specific mental “condition”; serve as a mentor to promote recovery and resiliency and instill hope; teach symptom monitoring, symptom management, and relapse prevention skills
• WELLNESS - Provide information about illnesses; assist individual with knowledge of their medication, side effects, discuss medication concerns with the provider; facilitate self-motivational skills for medication regimen, including consequences to independent living
• SERVICE PLANS - Assist in the development and coordination of the individual’s service plan based on his/her identified strengths and goals. The plan will include a recovery/resiliency management plan, crisis management plan and if requested, advanced directives concerning the individual’s behavioral healthcare
• RESOURCE COORD - Assist the client in obtaining access to and coordination of necessary rehabilitative, medical and other services to include assistance in obtaining financial and medical benefits/entitlements; assist in obtaining and maintaining safe affordable and stable housing, and provision of support and mentoring to behavioral health consumers involved in the Judicial System
• SUPPORT SERVICES - Encourage the development and eventual succession of natural supports in the workplace, school, family, and community environments
• ASSESSMENT - Work with the individual/family to identify personal strengths, needs and barriers to attaining self-identified goals; conduct ongoing assessments to determine if the services accessed are meeting or have adequately met the individual’s needs
• CRISIS INTERVENTION - Assess, support and intervene in crisis situations including the facilitation of the development and use of individual crisis management plans that recognize the early signs of crisis/relapse and use natural supports. Identify & encourage use of alternatives to hospital emergency departments and inpatient hospital services
• TRACKING - Coordinate and monitor use of services, including comprehensive tracking of client activities in relation to care plan such as attendance to all scheduled appointments, reviewing documentation of other in-house providers, and maintaining contact with external providers. Conduct post discharge follow-up contact as appropriate
• DOCUMENTATION - Document all client encounters and those made on behalf of clients; complete and submit billing documentation as appropriate; maintain current and comprehensive client files. Files may contain documents held for safe keeping on behalf of a client
• STATISTICS - Maintain and report applicable statistics regarding programs and client services
• DEVELOPMENT - Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, reading current literature, attending in‑services, meetings and workshops

Education

High School or GED Equivalent

1 year directly related experience

Job description

University of New Mexico - Hospitals is seeking a role within the BH Response Team-Pro Fees to coordinate and provide services and resources to individuals and families to promote rehabilitation, recovery, and resiliency. You will identify strengths and barriers to enhance independent functioning in the community and support crisis situations with personalized interventions.

The position involves patient-centered care across various age groups, collaboration with medical providers, and