PEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

This is a Stanford Health Care job.
A Brief Overview
The peer support specialist works with the Addiction Medicine Consult Team to provide non-clinical mentoring to patients who are in the hospital and have a substance use disorder. By sharing lived experiences about their recovery journey, the peer support specialist provides emotional support and encouragement to patients. The peer support specialist assists patients in developing insight and motivation around their substance use. The peer support specialist helps patients brainstorm and problem solve addressing potential pitfalls with their sobriety. Throughout their work, they support patients using a recovery focused and culturally competent lens.
Locations
Stanford Health Care
What you will do

• Meet individually with patients to learn about their social situation, substance use, and what a meaningful life means to them.
• Utilize personal experience to build rapport with patients and role model self-care and effective use of recovery skills.
• Provide reinforcement and encouragement to patients to help motivate patients to take action towards their goals.
• Assist patients with identifying potential triggers and create plans to prevent relapse.
• Assist patients with identifying social supports and people/numbers they can call when feeling triggered and/or in crisis.
• Educate patients on levels of care for substance use treatment.
• Provide MediCal patients with contact numbers for county Access lines and assist patients with making first call to establish care.
• Educate patients about various peer support groups and walk them through how to access virtual meetings.
• Provide patients with program surveys to gather feedback on peer mentor program.
• Attend treatment team meetings to provide updates on patients.

Education Qualifications

• High School Diploma.
• Peer Support Specialist Certification preferred.

Experience Qualifications

• Minimum three (3) years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience is preferred.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Communicates and interacts with patients in a culturally competent and relatable way.
• Develops positive working relationships with hospital staff and community agencies.
• Interest/proficiency in working with individuals recently released from incarceration, homeless individuals and other marginalized populations.
• Becomes versed in local and regional substance use treatment options and local harm reduction services.
• Ability to use computer information systems, computer literacy, and knowledge of word processing.
• Collects data related to number of patients seen and referrals to care.
• Nonjudgmental, energetic, positive approach to assisting patients with Substance Use Disorder (SUD)
• Understanding of SUD as a medical condition and the role of MAT in treatment and harm reduction. Adherence to an abstinence-based social model that is unsupportive of MAT is not aligned with the goals of this position.
• Able to interact with patients in a culturally relatable manner. Any additional ability to communicate in languages spoken in local community such as Spanish, Tagalog, Hmong, etc. are helpful
• Preference for applicants with connections to, and reflecting the diversity of, the local community.
• Respect for patient confidentiality and privacy.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Physical Demands and Work Conditions
Blood Borne Pathogens

• Category II - Tasks that involve NO exposure to blood, body fluids or tissues, but employment may require performing unplanned Category I tasks

These principles apply to ALL employees:
SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.
You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $34.11 - $43.48 per hour

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.