**Full-time, Days**
**Monday-Friday**
**8 AM - 4:30 PM - Some evenings depending on groups schedule**
**80 hrs/2 weeks**
**General Summary**
Contributes in a peer support capacity to facilitate recovery and enhance wellness by sharing his/her personal/practical experience and first-hand knowledge to the team and clients. Serves as a role model for recovery for both staff and peers and partners with peers in developing recovery tools and building support networks.
**Duties and Responsibilities**
**Essential Functions:**
+ Assists designated peers with rehabilitative social support, advocacy, educational and vocational mentoring and self-maintenance
+ Provides information on accessing community resources.
+ Assists in transportation for peers to necessary appointments, support and outreach.
+ Provides reminder calls to designated peers to offer reminders and verbal supports in relation to their recovery.
+ At the request of the peer, assists family members in obtaining support resources, as well as educational information regarding recovery tools.
+ Provides supports to individuals in recovery in the community when needed.
+ Provides marketing and trainings within the community as needed.
+ Partners with peers to create and attain goals on the Individual Recovery Plan.
+ Completes necessary documentation for each peer encounter (i.e. service activity, contact sheets, etc) within 48 hours of encounter.
+ Completes all necessary paperwork during the intake, and updates paperwork as needed.
+ Completes monthly log of services provided.
+ Meets with team on a bi-weekly basis for staff meeting and peer reviews.
+ Assists Peers with creating an Individual Recovery Plan. Initial IRP must be completed within 30 days of first face to face visit. A six month review from the date of the most current IRP will be required for continuation of services.
+ Reviews Individual Recovery Plan with peers every 6 month or earlier as needed.
+ Acts as a liaison with other community agencies/groups, funding sources, and businesses that relate to the services provided to peers.
+ Acquires knowledge or resources in assigned county/counites while maintaining an excellent working relationship with all providers.
+ Provides onsite visits to other community agencies in order to educate them about the peer services available.
+ Communicates on an as needed basis with providers regarding issues relevant to continuity of care.
+ Provides after hours telephone support to enrolled peers as assigned.
**Common Expectations:**
+ Meets with supervisor for individual supervision on a weekly basis.
+ Models coping techniques and self-help strategies.
+ Encourages and provides support for peers to advocate for themselves.
+ Reinforces hope and the potential for recovery to peers and others.
+ Provides outstanding service to all customers; fosters teamwork; and practices fiscal responsibility through improvement and innovation.
**Qualifications**
**Minimum Education:**
+ High School Diploma or GED Required
+ Associates Degree As a Medical Assistant or related health field. Preferred
**Work Experience:**
+ 1 year Of paid or volunteer experience within a three year period. Required and
+ A self-identified recovering consumer. Required and
+ Experience in navigating the recovery system (i.e. crisis services, vocational rehabilitation, recreational activities, and human services, etc.). Required and
+ A history of coping with own substance use disorder issues and maintenance of own recovery. Required and
+ Medical Assistance or related health field experience. Required
**Licenses:**
+ Certified Recovery Specialist Upon Hire Required
**Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:**
+ Excellent human relations and oral/written communication skills.
+ Basic computer skills including email, Word, and internet.
+ Knowledge of and ability in the care and support of individuals in a specific age group.
WellSpan Health's vision is to reimagine healthcare through the delivery of comprehensive, equitable health and wellness solutions throughout our continuum of care. As an integrated delivery system focused on leading in value-based care, we encompass more than 2,300 employed providers, 250 locations, nine award-winning hospitals, home care and a behavioral health organization serving central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland. Our high-performing Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) is the region's largest and one of the best in the nation. With a team 23,000 strong, WellSpan experts provide a range of services, from wellness and employer services solutions to advanced care for complex medical and behavioral conditions. Our clinically integrated network of 3,000 aligned physicians and advanced practice providers is dedicated to providing the highest quality and safety, inspiring our patients and communities to be their healthiest.
**Quality of Life**
Founded in 1741, the city of York is considered by many as the first capital of the United States. The Articles of Confederation were signed by the Second Continental Congress here in 1777. Its beautifully restored historic district is an architectural treasure. While York retains its farming and manufacturing heritage, at its heart York is a thriving cultural community that has attracted creative talent and innovative entrepreneurial investors from across the nation.
Life in York County offers affordable housing, options for higher education, a thriving arts and cultural community, historical attractions, parks and recreational resources, semi-professional baseball team, fine dining and more - within an easy drive of major East Coast cities.
York County residents can find local employment in healthcare, manufacturing, technology, agricultural and service sectors. (Patient population: 445,000)
WellSpan Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy and intention of the System to maintain consistent and equal treatment toward applicants and employees of all job classifications without regard to age, sex, race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, national origin, ancestry, veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic.