Certified Peer Supporter
Center for Addiction Treatment
Why join a team of "lifesavers" at The Center for Addiction Treatment?
Vision
Recovery for all who seek it.
Mission
Saving lives and rebuilding families and communities by providing addiction health services.
Purpose
CAT offers help and hope for a different life by providing accessible care and tools for lifelong sobriety and recovery to patients struggling with addiction to alcohol, drugs or gambling. CAT does this with the goal of saving lives and rebuilding families.
Benefits
- Bi-weekly pay - $18.00/hour
- Staying healthy: Medical, Dental and Vision – Starts the 1st of the month after 30 days of employment.
- Protecting your income: Life Insurance, Accidental death & Dismemberment, Short Term Disability, HRA, Critical Illness, and generous Paid Time Off (PTO) accrual
- Preparing for your future: 401k Employer match and Roth
- Company paid: Life insurance $15k and Long-Term Disability
Job purpose
The role of a Certified Peer Supporter is to provide a clear message of hope and encouragement to individuals seeking recovery from mental health and/or substance use disorders. The Peer
Supporter is part of the treatment team and shares from his/her own personal lived experience with recovery. The Certified Peer Supporter works with the Peer Services Supervisor to streamline
processes of getting persons in active addiction into treatment and ultimately into recovery-friendly jobs, homes, and support groups.
- Provides support to:
- Peer Services Supervisor as directed.
- Counseling and Nursing teams to help identify recovery support and clinical needs of the patient.
- Case Management by sharing experiences with safe and supportive housing and navigating community resources.
- Carries case load of individual patients (inpatient and outpatient), and provides Withdrawal Management Psychoeducation Groups, and/or Outpatient Recovery Peer Groups to assist with clients’ transition to early recovery as needed.
- Completes all required documentation – treatment plans, progress notes, transfer/discharge summaries.
- Provides outreach to other agencies in the community and will support/assist referred individuals with becoming treatment-ready (i.e. hospital systems, jail systems, Quick Response Teams)
- Support Peer and Alumni functions including management of Recovery Support Group Meetings and Peer Mentor Volunteers, and other CAT functions through planning, preparation, and attendance as directed by CPRS Supervisor.
Qualifications
Must have direct lived experience consistent with CAT’s recovering patients. Must be comfortable sharing one’s own lived experience with others. Should have a thorough understanding of different pathways to recovery, including abstinence, harm reduction, and Medication-Assisted Treatment. Must have Ohio Certified Peer Recovery Supporter Certification issued by Ohio Mental Health and Addiction Services within 6 months of hire date and working knowledge of a Peer Supporter’s Scope of Practice. Must have working knowledge of Microsoft Office for data entry and data retrieval.
Physical requirements
· While performing the duties of this job, the employee may need to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time.
· Position may require individual to communicate, converse and exchange information with others.
· Position may require individual to perceive communications via email, phone or in person and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard reach.
· Nothing in this job description restricts CAT rights to reassign or assign duties and responsibilities and does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.
