Why join a team of "lifesavers"at The Center for Addiction Treatment?
Vision
Recovery for all who seek it.
Mission
Saving lives and rebuilding families and communities by providing addiction health services.
Purpose
CAT offers help and hope for a different life by providing accessible care and tools for lifelong sobriety and recovery to patients struggling with addiction to alcohol, drugs or gambling. CAT does this with the goal of saving lives and rebuilding families.
Benefits

• Bi-weekly pay - $18.00/hour
• Staying healthy : Medical, Dental and Vision - Starts the 1st of the month after 30 days of employment.
• Protecting your income : Life Insurance, Accidental death & Dismemberment, Short Term Disability, HRA, Critical Illness, and generous Paid Time Off (PTO) accrual
• Preparing for your future : 401k Employer match and Roth
• Company paid : Life insurance $15k and Long-Term Disability

Job purpose
The role of a Certified Peer Supporter is to provide a clear message of hope and encouragement to individuals seeking recovery from mental health and/or substance use disorders. The Peer
Supporter is part of the treatment team and shares from his/her own personal lived experience with recovery. The Certified Peer Supporter works with the Peer Services Supervisor to streamline
processes of getting persons in active addiction into treatment and ultimately into recovery-friendly jobs, homes, and support groups.
Duties and responsibilities
Provides support to the Peer Services Supervisor
Provides outreach to other agencies in the community
Carries case load of patients to help transition to early recovery
Support and assist individuals to becoming treatment-ready (ie. hospital systems, jail systems, Quick Response Teams)
Support Continuing Care Graduations through planning, preparation, and attendance
Works closely with Counseling Team to help identify sober support needs of the patients
Support Case Management plan as relating to:
o Entering the workforce
o Keeping scheduled outpatient counseling and primary care appointments
o Securing safe housing, supportive of recovery
o Job Readiness
o Group Psychoeducation
Qualifications
Must have direct lived experience consistent with CAT's recovering patients. Must be comfortable sharing one's own lived experience with others. Should have a thorough understanding of different pathways to recovery, including abstinence, harm reduction, and Medication-Assisted Treatment. Must have Ohio Peer Recovery Supporter Certification issued by Ohio Mental Health and Addiction
Services within 6 months of hire date. Must have working knowledge of Microsoft Office for data entry and data retrieval.
Physical requirements
While performing the duties of this job, the employee may need to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time.
Position may require individual to communicate, converse and exchange information with others.
Position may require individual to perceive communications via email, phone or in person.
Nothing in this job description restricts CAT rights to reassign or assign duties and responsibilities and does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.