Peer Support Specialist

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Job Type:

Regular

Scheduled Hours:

40

Why You'll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare

At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We're guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do.

Benefits That Support You

We invest in you - personally and professionally.

Enjoy:

• Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.
• Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules
• Retirement savings with employer match
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
• Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs
• Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility

Job Summary:

St. Elizabeth Healthcare is hiring a Peer Support Specialist for our KORE Baby Steps Program, based out of the Journey to Recovery Center in Covington, KY.

Shift/Hours: Full-Time - 40 hours/week, 1st Shift

Job Description:

The Peer Support Specialist uses their personal recovery experience to develop a trusting mentor relationship with patients and uses their own successful recovery as an example of what the patient can achieve in recovery.

Duties include:

• Face to face client interaction for scheduled meetings, office visits, hospital inpatient visits, residential home visits, off-site 12 step meetings, detox support.

• Accompanies patient to court, addiction related meetings and other appointments, facilitates or monitors group therapy meetings as assigned.

• After hours work with clients- calls, meetings, treatment and detox support.

• Maintains regular community partner involvement, including professional work team meetings.

• Enters data base information for the healthcare system and the state.

• Restocks client closet, diaper/formula bank, and all recovery related supplies on a regular basis.

A general job description can be provided upon request.

Qualifications

Education, Credentials, Licenses:

• High school graduate or equivalent

• MUST have personal ongoing recovery from substance abuse with > 1 year of sobriety

• MUST complete 30 hours of state training and pass requirements to be certified as a State Certified Peer Support Specialist in the state where work is being performed

• Must be considered acceptable as a routine driver by healthcare system's business auto insurance carrier.

• Complete 6 hours of continuing education each year

NOTE: Must meet requirements below: (within 6 months of employment)

• Must have a legal and valid driver's license

• Must pass a criminal background check

• Must pass MVR check

• Must be insurable

Kind and Length of Experience:

• Experience with some type of recovery program such as Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous.

FLSA Status:

Non-Exempt

Right Career. Right Here. If you're looking for the right careers in healthcare, the right place to be is at St. Elizabeth. Join us, and you'll take pride in the level of care we offer our community.