Certified Peer Specialist I

Purpose:  The Certified Peer Specialist I will align his/her scope of work with Jawonio’s Mission, while incorporating Jawonio’s Core Values as the guiding principle for all work activities.

Summary:  Delivers peer support, psychosocial rehabilitation, and family support/training services to members of the Community-Oriented Recovery Services (CORE) program.  Ensures members receive person-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally competent services within a rehabilitation and recovery focus in their homes or their community.  Facilitates the utilization of natural resources and the enhancement of recovery-oriented principles with the intention to assist individuals with initiating recovery, maintaining health and wellness, and enhancing the quality of personal and family life for long-term recovery.  Provides assistance and support for Saturday programming in the Personalized Recovery Oriented Services (PROS) program.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.  Other duties may be assigned.

• Oversee and manage a caseload of members that are enrolled in the CORE services program, seeing them on a 1:1 basis as needed, wanted, and defined by an individualized service plan.
• Help individuals work on goals such as community connectedness, development of natural resources, physical and mental health wellness, education, employment, self-help, and independent living skills.
• Provide services in a person-centered, goal-oriented, trauma-informed, and culturally competent approach which includes advocacy, outreach and engagement, self-help tools, recovery supports, transitional supports, pre-crisis and crisis supports.
• Assist in selecting and utilizing self-directed and evidence-based recovery tools, including but not limited to Wellness and Recovery Plans (WRAP) OR Relapse Prevention Planning, with members to develop skills for long-term recovery.
• Provide health coaching and recovery support, especially on issues of self-advocacy, wellness self-management, medication adherence, smoking cessation, entitlements, and daily living activities.
• Assist with and coordinate transportation to appointments, including provision of travel training as needed.
• Accompany members to behavioral health, medical and/or other appointments to support and facilitate engagement and follow-through as needed.
• Act as a linkage to community services including medical, behavioral, residential, entitlement and any other needed services.
• Coordinate and communicate care planning with other providers of services.
• Communicates and works with members, their families, and professional staff (both internal and external) to help ensure member growth and recovery.
• Assists in planning and facilitation of groups, social/recreational activities and outings for participants during PROS Danny’s Promise programming on Saturdays.

• Completes all mandated documentation requirements by Jawonio and regulating agencies within prescribed deadlines including but not limited to the following:
  • Individualized service plans
  • individual progress notes

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• • discharge summaries

• Complete required trainings and pass post-tr