Peer Recovery Specialist
Job Description

Education Level: High School Diploma or equivalent

License:  Peer Recovery Specialist Certification

Background: Must pass background check through Minnesota Department of Human Services (MN DHS)
Wage: Range $18 - $24an/hr.

Summary

The Peer Recovery Specialist will provide services in Withdrawal Management and Residential Programs as needed and directed by their Program Directors. The Peer Recovery Specialist will provide excellent service in all functional areas of their work, which includes regular interaction with clients, CADT employees, and the surrounding community. Services are to be provided before, during and after Substance Use Disorder treatment to help individuals connect with resources that support recovery. Peers are individuals who are willing to share their personal recovery experience and often engage quickly with individuals to offer reassurance, reduce fears, answer question, support motivation, and convey hope.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Serve as a resource for clients.
• Accompany client to appointments that support recovery.
• Provide education, advocacy and mentoring through self-disclosure of personal recovery experience.
• Proved non-clinical recovery support to assist the transition from treatment into the recovery community.
• Assist new intakes with direction and provide guidance.
• Maintain positive public relations with referring agencies and businesses in the community.
• Locate appropriate staff members and/or supervisor to respond to client needs when necessary.
• Monitor clients providing urine for analysis as needed.
• Responsible for light clinical documentation.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
  

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the individual is regularly required to talk, hear, stand, sit, walk, use hands to handle, grab, finger and feel, and to reach, taste and smell. The employee is occasionally required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. This individual must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision requirements include the ability to read, write and comprehend, close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, this individual may be exposed to hazards and physical risks, to which the employee will be instructed on appropriate methods of controlling volatile situations. This individual may be exposed to blood, body fluids and caustic substances. The noise level in this environment is generally moderate.