Forensic Peer - Flagstaff, United States - Hope Lives-Vive la Esperanza

Description

Hope Lives-Vive la Esperanza is looking for an outgoing, creative individual to provide forensic peer recovery support services to model recovery principles, help create recovery plans, and enhance functioning to assist members in community integration, becoming more self
- sufficient, and learning/improving vocational skills.

Hope Lives is a _forensic-based_ peer-run organization, offering support to both members and employees. Working in an upbeat, collaborative environment, ideas are always welcome and change is good. All employees have access to our Employee Assistance Program.
Employer-paid benefits for full time employees include medical, dental, vision, life, 13 holidays annually, 16 days PTO in the first year (with separate sick time accrual), and more


_Job Specific:

_ Must have been a Behavioral Health Services recipient or family member of same with sufficient recovery and system experience to coach, mentor, guide, and support others.

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Must have lived experience of incarceration or immediate family member _
with experience of incarceration (parent, child, spouse, sibling, grandparent), and lived _experience or immediate family member with experience of substance use,
and/or lived _experience or immediate family member with experience with suicide._


RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Facilitating and modeling recovery principles while fulfilling HLVLE's mission statement and pursuing the HLVLE vision
• Assisting recipients in identifying and articulating personal recovery goals
• Assisting recipients in determining the objectives the recipients needs to take in order to reach their recovery goals
• Assisting recipients in determining "problems"
• Determining interventions based on recipients' recovery/life goals
• Observing progress recipients make toward meeting objectives
• Understanding and utilizing specific interventions necessary to assist recipients in meeting their recovery goals
• Leading as well as teaching recipients how to facilitate recovery dialogues
• Assisting recipients in setting up and sustaining selfhelp (mutual support) groups
• Assisting recipients in creating a recovery plan
• Utilizing and teaching problem solving techniques with individuals and groups
• Teaching recipients how to identify and combat negative selftalk
• Teaching recipients how to identify and overcome fears
• Teaching and facilitating workshops/classes
• Supporting the vocational choices recipients make and assisting them in overcoming jobrelated anxiety and/or barriers to maintaining employment (peer coaching)
• Assisting recipients in building social skills in the community that will enhance job acquisition and tenure
• Attending treatment team meetings to promote recipients' use of selfdirected recovery tools
• Teaching and role modeling the value of every recipient's recovery experience
• Assisting the recipients in obtaining decent and affordable housing of his or her choice in the most integrated, independent, and least intrusive or restrictive environment
• Modeling effective coping techniques and selfhelp strategies
• Continuing to develop and share recoveryoriented material
• Attending continuing education, seminars, meetings, and inservice training when offered for professional development
• Providing and advocating for effective recoverybased services
• Assisting recipients in obtaining services that suit that recipient's recovery needs
• Informing recipients about community and natural supports and how to utilize these in the recovery process
• Assisting recipients in developing empowerment skills through selfadvocacy and the use of human experience language to combat stigma

COMMUNICATION:

• Maintains and follows effective communication with supervisor, recipients, coworkers and other community members
• Maintains a professional demeanor at all times
• Checks deadlines on incoming requests and puts preliminary work in play

KEY DUTIES:

• Maintains and follows satisfactory punctuality and attendance as set on the work schedule
• Maintains contract encounter objectives
• Documents billable activities that encourage, assist and support recipients in expressing their perspectives, including assessment, service planning and service delivery, which demonstrate Hope Lives-Vive la Esperanza's focus on diverse/integrated community transformation
• Transports recipients using HLVLE vehicles as directed

Physical Requirements:

• Sitting for long periods
• Standing for long periods
• Lifting up to 30 lbs
• Typing
• Driving
• Kneeling
• Bending/Stooping
• Traveling
• Alternative work hours (may be between 6:00am and 6:00pm, some weekends)
• Working on a computer 24 hours a day

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS (Skills necessary to meet minimum performance standards of the position)
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_MUST BE ABLE TO BE CERTIFIED AS A FORENSIC, PEER, OR RECOVERY SUPPORT SPECIALIST_
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_MUST BE AT LEAST 21 YEARS OF AGE PER STATE REGULATIONS_:

• **_MUST HAVE VALID ARIZONA DRIVER LICENS