Peer Support Specialist

Join our team as a Peer Support Specialist!

As a Peer Recovery Support Specialist, you will provide Recovery Coaching to patients struggling with mental health and substance use disorders.

They may assist the patient in identifying personal and environmental obstacles to recovery, link the recovering person to the recovery community, and serve as a personal guide and mentor in the management of personal and family recovery.

A Peer Recovery Support Specialist does not serve the role of sponsor and models competency in resiliency and recovery and ongoing coping skills.

Peer Recovery Support Specialists work closely with the patients treatment team and, when needed, works with patients family and community, as well

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We value our employees' differences and find strength in the diversity of our team and community.

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Why Join Us:
Type of Opportunity: Full Time
FTE: 1.000000
Exempt: No
Work Schedule: Days

Benefits: We offer a wide range of benefits including medical, wellness programs, vision and dental, paid time off, retirement and more.

Prefer Qualifications:

Experience in recovery Coaching to patients struggling with mental health and substance use disorders.

Education: High School Diploma/GED required
• Knowledge of community resources required.
• Registrar for Peer Certification class within 6 months after hire
• Current NM drivers license is preferred
• Certified Narcan educator preferred
• Trained in Motivational Interviewing Skills preferred
• Previous experience working in hospital or ED setting preferred
• Experience working with confidential medical records and documentation preferred.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Computer skills, familiarity with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power Point
• Familiar with readiness assessment tools and SBIRT.

• Coordinates and communicates with hospital staff, funders and community partners as required.
• Creates reports and presentations as required.
• Works independently and with a multidisciplinary team to provide services and deliverables as required by PHS and/or funders.
• Engages patient toward recovery using Motivational Interviewing Skills.
• Provides patient assessment(s).
• Provides Naloxone education in partnership with nursing and medical personnel.
• Complies with hospital, funding, State and Federal regulations.
• Support Patients, first and foremost uses their personal experiences to develop meaningful and trusting relationships with patients, acting as a mentor. As someone who successfully managed their own recovery, the Peer Recovery Support Specialist provides patients an example of what they can strive for in their recovery.
• Coordinate Patient Logistics, in order to support the facility, handles some logistics of patient arrival and departure; includes arranging transportation for the patient, managing follow-up appointments, and working with facility administrators and discharge staff members.
• Build Community, works to build a community of both patients and staff that is supportive and conducive to patient growth and recovery. May assist in the creation and implementation of social activities and help create a positive environment for everyone.
• Identify Resources for patients; link up with various community organizations and resources to provide additional support for patients, particularly as they transition from recovery back into the general community. Can include continued healthcare, housing, job assistance, and additional treatment services as well as support in the task of finding or re-integrating with friends, family, and outside communities.

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All benefits-eligible Presbyterian employees receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, group term life insurance and other optional voluntary benefits.

Wellness
Presbyterian's Employee Wellness rewards program is designed to provide you with engaging opportunities to enhance your health and activate your well-being. Earn gift cards and more by taking an active role in our personal well-being by participating in wellness activities like wellness challenges, webinar, preventive screening and more.

Why work at Presbyterian?
As an organization, we are committed to improving the health of our communities. From hosting growers' markets to partnering with local communities, Presbyterian is taking active steps to improve the health of New Mexicans.

About Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Presbyterian exists to improve the health of patients, members, and the communities we serve. We are locally owned, not-for-profit healthcare system of nine hospitals, a statewide health plan and a growing multi-specialty medical group. Founded in New Mexico in 1908, we are the state's largest private employer with nearly 14,000 employees - including more than 1600 providers and nearly 4,700 nurses.

Our health plan serves more than 580,000 members statewide and offers Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (Centennial Care) and Commercial health plans.

Inclusion and Diversity
Our culture is one of knowing and respecting our patients, members, and each other. We capture this in our Promise and CARES commitments.

AA/EOE/VET/DISABLED. PHS is a drug-free and tobacco-free employer with smoke free campuses.