Peer Recovery Supporter/BHT

JOB PURPOSE:

The Peer Recovery Supporter (PRS) serves a role model to persons with a mental health and/or
substance use disorder to facilitate and promote recovery. Peer support services consist of activities that
promote resiliency and recovery, self-determination, advocacy, well-being, and skill development. Peer
support services are individualized, resiliency and recovery focused, and based on increasing knowledge and
skills through a peer relationship that supports an individuals or family’s ability to address needs, navigate
systems and promote recovery, resiliency, and wellness. They promote family driven, youth guided, trauma
informed care and cultural humility, encourage partnership with individuals and families, and advocate for
informed choice.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Modeling personal responsibility for resiliency, recovery and wellness.
  
• Check in with shift prior for resident report and receive any added assignment.
  
• Coordinating or assisting in crisis interventions and stabilization: Oversee individual resident concerns
  and alert treatment team members.
  
• Developing and working toward achievement of individualized recovery, resiliency, and wellness goals.
  
• Promoting coordination and linkage among providers: Attend treatment team and supervisee
  meetings.
  
• Maintain residents' schedule for your shift.
  
• Addressing skills or behaviors, through processes that assist an individual, caregiver, or family in
  eliminating barriers to achieving or maintaining recovery, resiliency, and wellness: Observe and assure
  adherence to facility rules.
  
• Complete daily room checks.
  
• Attending and participating in team decision making or specific treatment team: Complete daily
  attendance, progress reports and record.
  
• Assist with room searches when requested by the supervisor, or any other safety reasons that should
  warrant suspicion.
• Teaching and coaching skills to effectively navigate systems to effectively and efficiently utilize services:
  Assisting with accessing and developing outside support systems for aftercare.
  
• Meet and greet new patients.
  
• Assist with getting a food tray or drinks.
  
• Assist security with belongings/bag search upon new admit and sanitizing.
  
• Review patient handbook and orient patient to the program, answering questions concerning policy
  and rules.
  
• Supporting individuals and their caregivers and families in achieving goals through increased
  knowledge, skills and connection as identified by the individual or family: Sit with resident for
  conference call with children, or other approved phone call.
  
• Responsible for monitoring some phone time and adhere to facility cell phone policy.
  
• Encouraging hope: Providing small support groups for patients.
  
• Ongoing exploration of recovery, resiliency, and wellness needs: Assist in restocking resident supply
  closet, clothing closet. Assist residents in obtaining needed supplies.
• Addressing skills or behaviors, through processes that assist an individual, caregiver, or family in
  eliminating barriers to achieving or maintaining recovery, resiliency, and wellness: Assist in overseeing
  visitors and proper documentation for visits.
  
• Supporting the development of life skills: Monitor all chores and work projects.
  
• Assisting with accessing and developing natural support systems: Assist in overseeing in house
  residents with AA/NA meetings when applicable.
  
• Assisting individuals, caregivers, or families in the development of empowerment skills through
  advocacy and activities that mitigate discrimination and inspire hope: Assist residents with
  recreational activities and other projects, doing whatever possible to promote comfort, security, and
  rehabilitation.
  
• Conducting outreach and community education
  
• Other duties as assigned.

Please note that individuals may not be certified as a PRS while on probation, parole or any type of
court sanction. Individuals may complete training while on probation/parole/court sanction, but
you will need to wait until after your probation/parole/court sanction has ended to apply for
certification as a PRS.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• You must have directly lived experience of mental health and/or substance use issues. “Direct lived
  experience” means that you are personally in recovery from a mental health and/or substance use issue
  (having a friend or family member in recovery does not qualify you for PRS certification).
  
• Active OHIO (Peer Recovery Support Certification).
  
• Compliance to the Ohio Peer Support Code of Ethics
• High School Diploma or G.E.D.
  
• CPR Certified required.
• Preferred Education and Experience: At least one year of certified peer support experience preferred.

EEO STATEMENT
OVP Health provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal
law requirements, OVP Health complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in
employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and
conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall,
transfers, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
OVP Health expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender,
sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or
veteran status. Improper inference with the ability of OVP Health employees to perform their job duties may
result in discipline up to and including discharge.