Peer Support Specialist - Child Welfare Peer Recovery Services

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Description

Carolina Outreach, an ncgCARE partner, is one of the largest and most respected providers of community-based behavioral services in North Carolina. Serving the central and east central regions of the state, Carolina Outreach is renowned for providing service excellence to children and adults through a comprehensive program array to include evidence-based practices.

We are committed to providing a wide array of services to effectively meet the changing needs within the community. These services include evidence-based practices, school-based and outpatient therapy, psychiatric evaluations and treatment, Community Support and substance abuse services to name a few.

Location: Raleigh, NC

We are seeking a full-time Child Welfare Peer Recovery Services Peer Support Specialist to provide the following services:

• Actively identify ambivalence and resistance to engagement in treatment
• Promote appropriate self-disclosure to the utility and effectiveness of treatment and self-care
• Assist with identifying and working with the Child and Family Team to address concrete barriers to service engagement, to include overcoming transportation barriers (i.e.by means of public transportation, bus tickets, gas cards, or providing transportation to an initial session, self-help group or CFT while addressing any ambivalence or resistance).
• Promote psychoeducation to help develop recovery capital such as self-management, developing natural supports, coping skills, and self-advocacy skills
• Supporting/assisting parent’s development of healthy relationships and support network by encouraging participation in sober community activities
• Provide support to counteract stigma and feelings of shame related to their substance use and child welfare involvement, which often keeps parents demobilized from making steps towards recovery
• Provide culturally competent and gender-specific services. For fathers, utilizing father-focused intervention and advocacy strategies that have been found most effective by the WCHHS Father Engagement Services
• Provide and support PRS services at the parent’s place of residence, community, or in an office setting. Services delivered via telehealth will be provided via a HIPAA compliant platform. Service delivery will be scheduled at times that are best for parents, which may include evenings or weekends
• Submit monthly reports to WCHHS
• Receive clinical supervision and participate in regularly scheduled case reviews with their clinical supervisor and the WCHHS clinicians;
• Complete and submit appropriate program information and documentation to WCHHS, Guardian Ad Litem’s, and the court system via subpoena, as needed.
• Assist with monitoring parents’ initial stage of treatment attendance and participation in self-help groups;
• Attend court, when appropriate/needed.
• Complete and submit treatment notes, goals, and plans for the medical record (e.g., service notes, input into person-centered plan, etc.)
• Works a non-traditional schedule and make themselves available as needed to meet with clients as frequently as needed and at times convenient to them, be available after-hours and go to clients’ homes quickly after hours as needed in crises.
• Also, available to clients 24/7 in the event of a crisis.
• May have a maximum caseload of 15 clients.
  
  

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