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