Mobile Crisis On-Call Peer Recovery Specialist Per Diem

About the role

The Providence Center Mobile Crisis On-Call Peer Recovery Specialist provides peer support services, serves as a client advocate, and provides clients with written and experiential information and resources to promote recovery. They perform a wide range of tasks which assist clients in regaining control over their own lives and over their recovery process. They work within a multi-disciplinary treatment team to identify, support, assess and address client barriers to achieving goals and objectives.

Care New England Health System (CNE) and its member institutions — Butler Hospital, Women & Infants Hospital, Kent Hospital, VNA of Care New England, Integra, The Providence Center, and Care New England Medical Group — is a trusted, integrated health care organization that fuels the latest advances in medical research, attracts the nation’s top specialty-trained doctors, hones renowned services and innovative programs, and engages in the important discussions people need to have about their health and end-of-life wishes. Care New England is helping to transform the future of health care, providing a leading voice in the ongoing effort to ensure the health of the individuals and communities we serve.

Responsibilities

• Assess client needs using a holistic approach that includes medical/physical, vocational, educational, spiritual, social, recreational, financial, and community integration and recovery-focused needs and supports.
• Provide peer-based support and interventions regarding symptoms of physical or psychiatric illness, coping skills, medications/side effects, employment supports, and relapse prevention.
• Coordinate and/or deliver services to promote recovery, modeling effective coping strategies, self‑advocacy, and personal wellness practices grounded in lived experience.
• Facilitate development of and access to personal, agency, and community-based supports, services and resources that sustain ongoing rehabilitation and recovery; accompany clients as needed to acquire resources.
• Lead or co‑lead client-focused groups addressing life skills, benefits/resources, social skills and self-directed advocacy and recovery