What are the responsibilities and job description for the Family Peer Recovery Support Specialist position at CREOKS Health Services?
Job Description
Duties and Responsibilities:
CREOKS Health Services is a non-profit organization providing comprehensive health, wellness, and social services. Our behavioral health division offers more than 40 years of quality services and program that benefit adult, adolescents, and children. We currently have 24 locations across Eastern Oklahoma and one in Mountain View Arkansas. CREOKS’ reputation has allowed us to work with local agencies, schools, and civic organizations.
Whether you’re new to the field or a seasoned professional, joining CREOKS gives you the opportunity to affect meaningful change in people’s lives. It also means being a part of an accredited and recognized nonprofit who invests in your future. CREOKS offers a collaborative, positive work environment, free Continuing Education workshops, the NHSC Loan Repayment Program in 19 of our locations, a Leadership Institute for paths to management, competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package.
CREOKS Health Services is a non-profit organization providing comprehensive health, wellness, and social services. Our behavioral health division offers more than 40 years of quality services and program that benefit adult, adolescents, and children. We currently have 24 locations across Eastern Oklahoma and one in Mountain View Arkansas. CREOKS’ reputation has allowed us to work with local agencies, schools, and civic organizations. Whether you’re new to the field or a seasoned professional, joining CREOKS gives you the opportunity to affect meaningful change in people’s lives. It also means being a part of an accredited and recognized nonprofit who invests in your future. CREOKS offers a collaborative, positive work environment, free Continuing Education workshops, the NHSC Loan Repayment Program in 19 of our locations, a Leadership Institute for paths to management, competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Facilitate and teach the philosophy to staff and consumers that recovery is possible for everyone.
- Family Peers use their lived experience to ensure engagement and active participation of the family throughout the treatment process and assist family members in developing knowledge and skills to promote their family member's recovery
- Family Peers can provide peer services to families of a child or adolescent experiencing a serious emotional disturbance and/or substance use disorder.
- Implement and maintain weekly peer-to-peer support groups.
- Be trained and facilitate committee meetings and groups such as NAMI, Double Trouble, DBSA, WRAP, and Consumer Government.
- Educate and assist consumers with rights, responsibilities, and appeals.
- Represent CREOKS at state and local meetings and awareness events.
- Attend weekly staff/treatment team meetings.
- Assist individuals in attempting to contact and re-engage consumers to treatment.
- Teach skills to recovery.
- Utilize and teach problem solving techniques with members;
- Teach members how to identify and combat negative self-talk and fears;
- Support the vocational choices of members and assist him/her in overcoming job-related anxiety;
- Assist in building social skills in the community that will enhance quality of life. Support the development of natural support systems;
- Assist other staff in identifying program and service environments that are conducive to recovery; and
- Support consumers in using a Wellness Recovery Action Plan. q. Responsible to provide Wellness Services.
- All other duties as assigned.
- Family Peer is an individual who has lived experience as a caregiver of a child, youth or young adult who has mental health or behavioral health challenges and is certified by ODMHSAS to offer family peer support services.
- Ability to communicate needs to others.
- Ability to share story of recovery to individuals and groups.
- Knowledgeable on mental illnesses and co-occurring disorders.
- Successfully complete the 4-day PRSS Core training and test to be credentialed.
- Become a trained facilitator of Double Trouble in Recovery (DTR).
- Become a trained facilitator of Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP).
CREOKS Health Services is a non-profit organization providing comprehensive health, wellness, and social services. Our behavioral health division offers more than 40 years of quality services and program that benefit adult, adolescents, and children. We currently have 24 locations across Eastern Oklahoma and one in Mountain View Arkansas. CREOKS’ reputation has allowed us to work with local agencies, schools, and civic organizations.
Whether you’re new to the field or a seasoned professional, joining CREOKS gives you the opportunity to affect meaningful change in people’s lives. It also means being a part of an accredited and recognized nonprofit who invests in your future. CREOKS offers a collaborative, positive work environment, free Continuing Education workshops, the NHSC Loan Repayment Program in 19 of our locations, a Leadership Institute for paths to management, competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package.
CREOKS Health Services is a non-profit organization providing comprehensive health, wellness, and social services. Our behavioral health division offers more than 40 years of quality services and program that benefit adult, adolescents, and children. We currently have 24 locations across Eastern Oklahoma and one in Mountain View Arkansas. CREOKS’ reputation has allowed us to work with local agencies, schools, and civic organizations. Whether you’re new to the field or a seasoned professional, joining CREOKS gives you the opportunity to affect meaningful change in people’s lives. It also means being a part of an accredited and recognized nonprofit who invests in your future. CREOKS offers a collaborative, positive work environment, free Continuing Education workshops, the NHSC Loan Repayment Program in 19 of our locations, a Leadership Institute for paths to management, competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package.
