San Luis Valley Behavioral Health.

  • Alamosa, CO


  • $1650 per hour.

  • Training.

  • Full-time.

Description:

Position Overview:

The Peer Recovery Navigator will outreach and engage people with OUD with an objective of recommendation into Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) and other treatment and healing services. The peer navigator will likewise support those with a stimulant usage condition to gain access to proper compound usage condition treatment and healing assistance services. The objective of this program is to link individuals in requirement of treatment to services within the neighborhood; supplies customer details and peer assistance for customers in outpatient settings. The Navigator carries out a large range of jobs to help customers in restoring control over their own healing procedure. The Navigator will good example proficiency in healing and continuous coping abilities.

Recovery navigator’s main user interface is with county prisons, regional constable and cops departments, reentry companies, Colorado Department of Corrections, neighborhood corrections, diversion programs, probation, parole, healing neighborhood companies concentrated on the adjudicated population, judicial districts, local court systems and alternative court systems.

Essential Job Functions: The obligations of the Criminal Justice Peer Recovery Navigator will be:

  • To acquire and preserve accreditation with IC&RC as a qualified peer professional.
  • To develop and keep month-to-month interaction, either on website or by phone, with regional partners consisting of however not restricted to medical facilities, damage decrease companies and police.
  • To take part in routine neighborhood conferences concentrated on attending to opiate and stimulant obstacles.
  • To carry out month-to-month outreach efforts to hurt decrease companies or other entities participated in naloxone circulation, consisting of withdrawal management centers.
  • To get in touch with individuals in requirement of treatment, referred by any of the above determined points of contact, or by other paths, with being confessed into evidence-based, MAT treatment within the area.
  • To support any people looking for a treatment recommendation for MAT services, however likewise the companies and neighborhoods that have routine contact with individuals battling with opiate usage conditions.
  • To preserve routine reporting with regard to activities around these Provide Recovery obligations through the portal offered by Program Funder.
  • Coaching/Recovery Agent:
  • Assist customers in articulating individual objectives for treatment and healing. Helping customers in acquiring services that match that person’s healing requirements.
  • Assist customers in figuring out the actions that the customer requires to take in order to reach his/her healing objectives. Offering and promoting for reliable recovery-based services.
  • Assess healing phase and suitable interventions for that phase.
  • The Navigator will supply linkages, connections, engagement and outreach with the objective of supporting a private or household to take part totally in picking the suitable services.
  • Endorse damage decrease, and assistance connections to extensive community-based services targeted to minimize damage and producing incremental enhancements to total health.
  • Connecting customer’s expert and non-professional services and resources offered in the neighborhood.
  • Assist customers in establishing empowerment abilities through self-advocacy and stigma-busting.

Secondary Job Functions

  • Other responsibilities as appointed

Pay Rate – $1650/ hr

PM2. Requirements:

Education/Skill Requirements:

  • Education: High School diploma, or Bachelor’s Degree chosen.
  • Certifications: Successful conclusion of Peer Specialist Training and Peer Specialist Internship Program.

Other Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

Must be a customer or relative of a customer of psychological health services.

  • Organizational abilities.
  • Creative analytical.
  • Ability to observe, report, and keep records on customer’s healing procedure.
  • Ability to reveal oneself plainly and concisely, both orally and in composing.
  • Ability to utilize guidance to improve own efficiency.
  • Ability to work individually and as a member of a group.
  • Ability to work to attain the objective and objectives of this firm.
  • Ability to carry out light manual labor.
  • Basic computer system abilities.

Material and Equipment Directly Used:

  • Computer (Word and Health Information System)
  • Phone (Voice mail)
  • Electronic Health Record

Work Environment: General workplace environment; light manual labor as required: travel or errands outside the workplace.

Pay Rate – $1650/ hr

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San Luis Valley Behavioral Health.

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