PREFERRED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH OF NEW JERSEY·Secaucus, New Jersey
The specialist uses lived experience to provide hope, support, and advocacy for individuals with substance use disorders. Responsibilities include developing recovery plans, conducting outreach, and coordinating with families and caseworkers to ensure treatment retention.
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Job Title: Peer Recovery Support Specialist
Program: CPSAI
Hudson Area - Secaucus, NJ
Position Type: Full Time
Salary $37,450.00
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
Maintains relationships with parent/caregiver and families in order to assist individuals in the treatment engagement and retention process
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
Provides supportive outreach and engagement, in-office and out of office, for the purpose of furthering recovery in coordination with staff members including but not limited to phone calls, letter and home visits
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
The Department of Children and Families approved Peer Recovery Support Service training including Ethics and Division of Child Protection and Permanency
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
Candidates must have a high school diploma (Bachelor's preferred), a valid driver's license, and be at least 21 years old. A minimum of two continuous years of sustained recovery or experience as a family member affected by substance use is required.
Market context
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