Certified Recovery Mentor

Overview

At Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center
, we welcome diversity; we encourage, uplift, and are honored to serve people who have been historically underrepresented and underserved. Our mission is to provide high-quality, culturally appropriate healthcare to low-income residents of Washington and Yamhill Counties, with a special emphasis on seasonal and migrant farm workers and others with barriers to receiving healthcare. We strive to provide an inclusive environment that welcomes and values the diversity of the people we employ and serve.

Job Summary: The Certified Recovery Mentor/Peer Support Specialist (CRM/PSS) works as a member of an interdisciplinary team to provide peer recovery support to individuals with substance use disorders and/or mental health disorders and/or gambling addictions, while supporting a Trauma Informed Care perspective. This position participates in and implements program goals and objectives by providing a set of non-clinical activities that promote a strengths-based, wellness-informed, client-centered approach to achieving person-driven goals.

The CRM/PSS advocates for the individual and supports them to pursue their personal goals and individual wellness journey.

• Act as a positive role model for individuals being served, showing a recovery and healthful lifestyle orientation.
• Share own recovery story with individuals being served, when appropriate.
• Connect participants to various models of recovery support and community resources and assist with developing a support network.
• Support clients with learning how to navigate community resources including, but not limited to, the recovery community, housing, and mass transit.
• Reflect positive peer values that include non-hierarchy and mutuality.
• Comply with and implement the regulations, policies, and procedures that pertain to peer-delivered service goals and protocol.
• Facilitate transfer to higher levels of care as assessed and appropriate.
• Provide relapse prevention support services and planning, following up immediately and regularly with patients who are struggling with relapse and/or have a high relapse potential.
• Participate in regular clinical and task supervisions.
• Attend clinical case conferences and staff meetings as indicated to gain knowledge, communicate program goals, and advocate for the needs of individuals.
• Assist in crisis situations as appropriate, following emergency protocols/procedures and coordinating with the treatment team with interventions which support a trauma informed environment for program participants and staff.
• Prevent escalation, avoiding crisis situations or neutralizing crises in progress utilizing training, policies and procedures in place.
• Administer outcome measurement tools with individuals and participate in data collection.
• Document and maintain electronic health records (EHR) and ancillary records in a manner that assures compliance with all agency policies, program procedures, and local, state, and federal regulations.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation associated with billing, assessment, treatment, program participant's progress, and other activities, as required.
• Provide input into the therapeutic treatment at the program in collaboration with the individual being served and case manager.
• Actively support team members and other managerial and/or volunteer staff.
• Respect and honor client rights and responsibilities and demonstrate professional boundaries and ethics.
• Provide management of care for patients, ensuring individualized quality care in conjunction with medical care team, as needed.
• Ensure appropriate procedures are developed and followed regarding community-based and clinic safety protocols.
• Promote agency initiatives and focus of patient sub-populations as determined by agency executive team.
• Attend agency and community meetings as appropriate and determined in collaboration with supervisor.
• Initiate and participate in patient care inter- and multi-disciplinary case conferences and educational and program service programs.
• Handle protected health information (PHI) in a manner consistent with HIPAA.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

The Certified Recovery Mentor/Peer Support Specialist will have access to PHI during the course of their work activities. They will use the information to provide individual patient assessments to be used in the development of comprehensive integrated medical care services. Applying the minimum necessary standard of HIPAA, the designated record sets to which this position will have access include: all sections of the medical record, patient demographic information in the practice management system, incoming records, reports, results, consultations, etc.

This position is required to read the content of these records only to the extent needed to accomplish the assigned tasks.

• Must self-disclose, as appropriate, as a person in active recovery from substance…