Job Details

The Certified Recovery Specialist will provide support and assistance to program clients with the ultimate goal of successful of community-integration. Through formal and informal interactions, the Peer Recovery Specialist should inspire hope of recovery by promoting empowerment, self-determination, understanding, coping skills, and resiliency through mentoring as well as service coordination. Peer recovery support responsibilities are designed around the principles of consumer choice and the active involvement of persons in their own recovery process.

Job Description

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Meets with treatment applicants for the purpose of orienting them to the recovery model of care with the goal of facilitating engagement.
• Conducts individual and group sessions focusing on principles of recovery.
• Advises clients of available service options and choices.
• Promotes the utilization of natural resources within the community; Contacts patients whose engagement appears to waver.
• Maintains intensive recovery contact with patients completing a course of care and ensuring the ongoing availability of support as needed.
• Interact with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the iSCORE values of Jefferson.

***STARTING RATE IS $17.00/HR.***

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

• HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA OR GED.
• SOME COLLEGE COURSES AND OR associate or bachelor's DEGREE PREFERRED

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES AND REGISTRATION:

• RECOVERY OR PEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST CERTIFICATION

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• RELATED BACKGROUND EXPERIENCE IN CASE MANAGEMENT, AND/OR COUNSELING PREFERRED.
• TWO-YEAR HISTORY OF SUSTAINED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH RECOVERY

Work Shift

Rotating (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Temporary

Primary Location Address

1233 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students.