PEER RECOVERY SUPPORT SPECIALIST - LAWRENCEVILLE AREA at PREFERRED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH OF NEW JERSEY – Lawrenceville, New Jersey

Job Title: Peer Recovery Support Specialist

Program: CPSAI

Location: Lawrenceville Area - Main Office 3131 Princeton Pike, Lawrenceville New Jersey Building 6

Position Type: Full Time

Job Description/Summary

The Peer Recovery Support Specialist draws upon their lived experience to carry a message of hope and recovery to individuals who are experiencing a substance use disorder. By offering encouragement, support, outreach, service linkages, and advocacy. The PRSS cultivates and secures a connection with the parent/caregiver while coaching the parent/caregiver to achieve recovery goals and modeling personal responsibility. As part of their job responsibilities, the PRSS may be asked to provide direct services to individuals such as outreach and engagement, personal assistance in the completion of daily living skills, linkage to community supports, transportation, in-home services and advocacy.

Essential Job Function

• Reinforces, guides and ensures parents/caregivers and their families that recovery is possible, and is built on multiple strengths, coping abilities and resources of each individual
• Assists parents/caregivers with gaining skills and resources needed to initiate and maintain recovery
• Assists in establishing and sustaining a social and physical environment supportive of recovery
• Enhances identification and participation in the recovery community
• Empowers parents/caregivers to make self-determined and self-directed choices about their recovery pathway
• In collaboration with the parent/caregiver, develops a Recovery Plan which should include culturally competent and relevant services that identifies goals with measurable objectives, assesses strengths, can be used to work toward those goals, identifies barriers that can inhibit goal attainment, and monitors the progress made attaining those goals
• Attend all Family Team Meetings and Focus on Supervision, as requested, participates in case consultation with parent/caregiver and DCP&P case worker, attend consortia (if parent/caregiver is presented), attend agency staff meetings

Competencies

• Educates parent/caregiver on how to appropriately navigate treatment, social service and recovery support systems
• Is a positive role model to parent/caregiver and their families by sharing knowledge, hope and skills.
• Proficiently communicates - written and verbal
• Exhibits critical thinking

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalency, Bachelor’s Degree is preferred
• Communication Skills: written and verbal
• Basic Computer skills
• Valid Driver’s License
• Must be 21 years of age
• Knowledge of addictions preferred
• At least 2 continuous years of sustained recovery or 2 years of practicing the principles of recovery as a family member affected by substance use
• Must pass a pre-employment drug test and background check

Required Training:

The Department of Children and Families approved Peer Recovery Support Service training including Ethics and Division of Child Protection and Permanency.

Additional trainings may include: Domestic Violence (DV), Sexual Assault, Human Trafficking, Psychological First Aid and all agency specific trainings.

Comprehensive Benefits Package:

o Medical and Dental Insurance

o 403(b) Retirement Plan

o Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays

o Disability and Life Insurance

o Employee Assistance Program

o Voluntary Benefits, such as Vision Insurance, Aflac, Pet Insurance

o Training opportunities

o Employee Referral Bonus program

o Flexible Spending Account and Health Savings Account

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