Job Title: Certified Peer Support Specialist
Employer’s Name: Zoom Health Services Inc.
Location of the position: Field work when assigned
Full time, part time, permanent, short-term, contracted position: Contracted
Brief (1-2 sentence) organization description: Provider agency seeking to facilitate use or natural resources/ supports and enhance recovery-oriented attributes such as hope and self-efficacy.
General instructions to apply:
Submit all applications to ZoomHealthServ@gmail.com
Ensure to attach resume and any additional completed trainings or certificates
Job role and purpose:
Service peer providers, who are currently in recovery, who help educate participants on how to use their recovery story to aid other persons in their own recovery journey.
Required qualifications:
- 18 years of age
- Abuse Registry Check
- Criminal background check/ Fingerprinting
- Photo ID
- Experience as an individual with mental health or substance use needs
- HHSC approved certification as peer support specialist
- Complete all required trainings
TRAININGS REQUIRED (Prior to service provision)
- PCRP (Online)
- Co-occurring Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorder (COPSD)
- Opioid Overdose Prevention
- Ask About Suicide (ASK)
Preferred qualifications: Minimum experience of 1 year or more
To whom the position reports (supervisor): Supervisor and Coordinator
Salary and benefits info: Negotiable
Deadline for application: October 23, 2020