Peer Recovery Specialist

Dee’s Place Wellness and Recovery Center is seeking to hire a part-time Peer Recovery Specialist (Outreach Worker). The successful candidate shall possess the skillset necessary to build a trust-based relationship with program participants while offering assistance and guidance in navigating his/her personal journey toward recovery and wellness. Inspiring optimism and hope that recovery is possible and probable all while promoting empowerment, self-determination, understanding, coping skills and resilience.

For more than 20 years, Dee’s Place has provided a safe place where people in recovery can engage with peers, drop-in for 12-step meetings, participate in day program activities, and connect to psychiatric rehabilitative services. Staff assists in connecting guests to a healthy community and staying on the right track. All are welcome at Dee’s Place. The candidate will act as a role model to participants in such areas as identifying personal strengths, conflict resolution, building self-esteem, recovery skills. Using and speaking about personal experiences related to behavioral health issue and the criminal justice system.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• 1:1 peer recovery coaching, peer counseling, and peer-mentoring.
• Assist member in identifying and achieving with short/mid- and long-term recovery planning goals.
• Facilitating peer led groups on topics such as harm reduction, many Pathways to Recovery theory, wellness, and recovery, recovery capital and recovery planning.
• Knowledge to assist participants with accessing and securing all entitlements benefits he/she is eligible to receive (food stamps, Temporary Cash Assistance, Motor Vehicle Administration identification, health insurance, etc.).
• When requested make effective referrals for participants seeking to access substance use disorder or mental health services.
• Perform electronic online data entry of all participant engagement documentation including but not limited to assessment documentation, daily/weekly or monthly engagement documentation.
• Ability to effectively communicate effectively with clients, their family and friends, collaborating and partner agencies and the general public.
• Willingness to work occasional weekends and evenings.
• Willingness to cover the front desk.
• Other duties as assigned.

Special Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Possess effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Intermediate-level proficiency in the following Microsoft Office software - MS Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel.
• Demonstrate a basic knowledge and understanding of the following recovery principles, Harm Reduction, Many Pathways to Recovery, History of Mutual Aid (12-Step) Recovery and Medication Supported Recovery (MSR).

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Satisfactorily completed training in the following peer recovery specialist domains, Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) , Recovery Coach Academy or Mary Ellen Copeland “Wellness and Recovery Action Planning (WRAP), Wellness and Recovery, Mentoring and Education, Ethics and Advocacy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification or Licensure not required at time of hire, but preferred.
• Must obtain Certified Peer Recovery Specialist (CPRS) certification with first 6 months of employment.

Classified Title: Outreach Worker
Working Title: Peer Recovery Specialist
Role/Level/Range: ACRO37.5/02/CB
Starting Salary Range: $15.00 - $18.90/hr (Commensurate with experience)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: Tues - Sat 8-1 or 3-7
Exempt Status: Non-Exempt
Location: School of Medicine Campus
Department name: HEBCAC Dees Place
Personnel area: School of Medicine

Please refer to the job description above to see which forms of equivalency are permitted for this position. If permitted, equivalencies will follow these guidelines:

JHU Equivalency Formula: 30 undergraduate degree credits (semester hours) or 18 graduate degree credits may substitute for one year of experience. Additional related experience may substitute for required education on the same basis. For jobs where equivalency is permitted, up to two years of non-related college course work may be applied towards the total minimum education/experience required for the respective job.

**Applicants who do not meet the posted requirements but are completing their final academic semester/quarter will be considered eligible for employment and may be asked to provide additional information confirming their academic completion date.

The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check. Johns Hopkins is committed to hiring individuals with a justice-involved background, consistent with applicable policies and current practice. A prior criminal history does not automatically preclude candidates from employment at Johns Hopkins University. In accordance with applicable law, the university will review, on an individual basis, the date of a candidate’s conviction, the nature of the conviction and how the conviction relates to an essential job-related qualification or function.

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The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.

If you are interested in applying for employment with The Johns Hopkins University and require special assistance or accommodation during any part of the pre-employment process, please contact the HR Business Services Office at jhurecruitment@jhu.edu. For TTY users, call via Maryland Relay or dial 711.

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During the Influenza ("the flu") season, as a condition of employment, The Johns Hopkins Institutions require all employees who provide ongoing services to patients or work in patient care or clinical care areas to have an annual influenza vaccination or possess an approved medical or religious exception. Failure to meet this requirement may result in termination of employment.

The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas, laboratories, working with research subjects, or involving community contact requires documentation of immune status against Rubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella (chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received the Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination. This may include documentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicella vaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratory testing. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases are ordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam except for those employees who provide results of blood tests or immunization documentation from their own health care providers. Any vaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no cost in our Occupational Health office.

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Note: Job Postings are updated daily and remain online until filled.

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