Peer Recovery Specialist - Medication Mobile Unit

Peer Recovery Specialist - Medication Mobile Unit

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

School of Medicine | Department of Psychiatry | Addiction Research & Treatment Services (ARTS) | Adult Outpatient Program (AOP)

Position: # - Requisition: #37224

The ARTS Adult Outpatient Program (AOP) within Addiction Research and Treatment Services (ARTS) at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is seeking a full-time University Staff (non-classified) Peer Recovery Specialist. The position operates within the ARTS Adult Outpatient Program (AOP), with clinic locations in Denver, Aurora, and Arvada, as well as a Mobile Medication Unit (MMU). ARTS Adult Outpatient clinics provide drug and alcohol assessment, psychosocial and pharmacological treatment for adults.

Programs in various clinic locations include traditional outpatient, intensive outpatient and may contain specialty services for clients referred by the criminal justice system, county departments of human services, and services for pregnant women, individuals who are HIV-positive and gender-responsive services.

The Peer Recovery Specialist utilizes lived experience with SUD and recovery with existing sobriety supports to provide peer support and recovery services to those who enter into Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment with ARTS Adult Outpatient Program. This position provides activities to engage, educate, and offer support to adults with SUD, their family members, and caregivers as well as connect patients to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up sessions.

The Peer Recovery Specialist is also responsible for conducting outreach activities with organizations, patients, staff, community partners, subcontracted agencies, and/or other entities as appropriate. This position will also travel to various sites, and perform other duties as assigned or required.

This position is assigned to the ARTS Mobile Medication Unit (MMU), which will operate and provide SUD services across the greater Metro Denver area and may also work from time to time at the ARTS Clinics in Denver, Arvada, or Aurora or at other ARTS locations.

This full-time position is supported by grant funds, whose funding will be reviewed on a periodic basis. This position is contingent on grant funding and is time-limited. The position's status and viability may be affected over time by any applicable variations in the grant and/or funding amounts.

This full-time position is on-site, 40 hours per week, typically Monday through Friday, 6:00am to 2:30pm. This position may be required to work some weeknights, Saturdays, and/or Sundays depending on the needs of the clinic. Working hours and locations are subject to change according to the needs of the project and/or the agencies concerned.

• Serve as a Peer Specialist and educator to implement interventions to improve outcomes for patients who enter care via the ARTS Medication Mobile Unit and/or ARTS Clinics.
• Identify any problems, challenges, or obstacles in coordination of services for patients, and in a timely and effective manner, as well as ensuring all duties and responsibilities are performed for effective and appropriate benefit of patients to whom care and/or services are being provided.
• Conduct structured, Peer-led individual and group interventions that focus on health education, care coordination, identifying and reducing barriers to care for patients, and conduct outreach activities in the community in order to engage pregnant and postpartum patients in SUD treatment.
• Conduct case management for patients, provide referrals of necessary, appropriate resources to patients as needed, implement standardized intervention, track patients for engagement, and connect patients to prenatal treatment and care.
• Actively collaborate with supervisor and staff, and coordinate efforts to ensure successful delivery of services, attend and participate in trainings, team/staff meetings, and other events as needed, be willing to drive to meetings and CU Emergency Department for care coordination, ensure confidentiality of patient health information and/or health records, attend and actively participate in all project advisory committee meetings, etc.
• Continuously maintain accurate and up-to-date records and/or notes as required by agency policy, use electronic health record systems to ensure timely documentation, recording and tracking of communications, interventions, patient data, schedule and maintain multiple, internal, and external appointments, and gather, analyze, and report patient statistical data.
• Work comfortably among patients with or without substance abuse disorder, who are referred from city and county parole/probation departments, department of social services, and other relevant agencies, and perform other duties as assigned by supervisor and/or other AOP Management Team.

Onsite – this role is expected to work onsite and is located in the Denver Metro, Colorado.

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