Lead Peer Support Specialist

We are recruiting for a motivated Lead Peer Support Specialist to join our team!

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Department

Adult Psychiatrists

With over 700 employees, Behavioral Health Services (BHS) at Denver Health is a large and rapidly expanding department that provides psychiatric care for patients in community, emergency, inpatient, justice, medical, mobile, and outpatient settings. As a non-profit committed to meeting community needs and promoting health equity, Denver Health offers psychiatrists a practice full of meaning and purpose. All physicians at Denver Health have an academic appointment at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. As such, Denver Health is an excellent place to work for physicians with an interest in clinical education.

Job Summary
The Peer Support Specialist Lead will provide individual and group supervision (in addition to program supervisor of respective programs), recognize, and mitigate ethical dilemmas as they arise, provide timely feedback, and develop written protocols to ensure a safe environment for peers in collaboration with Supervisors that peers directly report to. They will collect data and conduct program evaluation and quality improvement, reporting, sharing results with policymakers and community leaders. This role will work with other leaders across the system to further develop peer support services offered internally and externally.
Essential Functions:

• Assist patients in completing paperwork and any grant specific documentation requirements. Perform outreach and engagement into local evidence-based treatment for people experiencing substance misuse. Create meaningful and lasting relationships with individuals with substance misuse seeking treatment and understand their needs to assist them in being linked to the appropriate treatment resources. Facilitate peer recovery support services, in a group and/or individual settings. Assist participants with the creation of a personal recovery plan and/or provide resources to reduce barriers to care. (30%)
• Provide individual and group supervision for Peer Support Specialist I & II (in addition to program supervisor), collect data and conduct program evaluation and quality improvement, reporting, sharing results with policymakers + community leaders. This role will work with other leaders across the system to further develop peer support services offered internally and externally. (70%)
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Education:

• No High School Diploma and/or No GED

Work Experience:

• Have a minimum of five years of sustained recovery from lived experience with substance use and/or mental health disorders (longer period preferred). Required and
• Preferably a person who has utilized medication assisted treatment/recovery and who is actively participating in his/her chosen pathway of recovery. Required and
• Completion of minimum 100 hours of peer recovery coach training or willingness to complete this training within 6 months of employment. Required and
• CPFS certification or NCPRSS certification. Required and
• Three years' experience in peer support position. Required and
• Preferred 1-3 years of supervision experience (doesn’t have to be specific to peers).

Licenses:

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong, effective, responsive communication skill. Excellent customer service.
• Organized and attention to details.
• Ability to summarize the positive effects personal recovery experience, and willing to share this experience in a way that would be helpful to others.
• Must honor, support and accept all pathways to recovery.
• Basic computer skills, including ability to use Microsoft Office Programs such as Outlook.
• Word and Excel and to operate a copier and scanner. Cross-cultural skills, and experience with culturally diverse populations.
• Ability to supervise and problem solve with others in recovery.
• Ability to review data and guide quality improvement efforts.

Shift

Work Type

Regular

Salary

$24.56 - $33.23 / hr

Benefits

• Outstanding benefits including up to 27 paid days off per year, immediate retirement plan employer contribution up to 9.5%, and generous medical plans

• Free RTD EcoPass (public transportation)

• On-site employee fitness center and wellness classes

• Childcare discount programs & exclusive perks on large brands, travel, and more

• Tuition reimbursement & assistance

• Education & development opportunities including career pathways and coaching

• Professional clinical advancement program & shared governance

• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer+ free student loan coaching and assistance navigating the PSLF program 

• National Health Service Corps (NHCS) and Colorado Health Service Corps (CHSC) eligible employer

Our Values

• Respect

• Belonging

• Accountability

• Transparency

All job applicants for safety-sensitive positions must pass a pre-employment drug test, once a conditional offer of employment has been made.
Denver Health is an integrated, high-quality academic health care system considered a model for the nation that includes a Level I Trauma Center, a 555-bed acute care medical center, Denver’s 911 emergency medical response system, 10 family health centers, 19 school-based health centers, Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Safety, a Public Health Institute, an HMO and The Denver Health Foundation.
As Colorado’s primary, and essential, safety-net institution, Denver Health is a mission-driven organization that has provided billions in uncompensated care for the uninsured. Denver Health is viewed as an Anchor Institution for the community, focusing on hiring and purchasing locally as applicable, serving as a pillar for community needs, and caring for more than 185,000 individuals and 67,000 children a year.
Located near downtown Denver, Denver Health is just minutes away from many of the cultural and recreational activities Denver has to offer.
We strongly support diversity in the workforce and Denver Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).

Denver Health values the unique ideas, talents and contributions reflective of the needs of our community. For more about our commitment to diversity visit: https://www.denverhealth.org/for-professionals/careers/diversity-and-inclusion

Applicants will be considered until the position is filled.