Peer Support Specialist/ Case Manager
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- Maintain confidentiality and adhere to reputed company standards.
- Draw from prior behavioral health experience, either as a recipient of services, a family member of someone receiving services, or a primary caregiver of a service recipient.
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- Promote harm reduction and recovery in group settings.
- Travel (with reimbursement) up to 25% of the time to various CMS clinic locations and community events.
- Communicate CMS program and assessment information to community-based service providers.
- Requirements
- Has lived experience with a reputed company use disorder and is living in recovery.
- Is comfortable working in a wide reputed company of settings, including any CMS clinic location, community-based outpatient setting, or correctional health facility.
- High School Diploma or GED (required)
- Peer Support or RSS training certificate required
- Experience with reputed company abuse, serious mental illness, and/or general mental health (required)
- Valid reputed company License and Motor Vehicle Clearance (clean driving record for 39 months).
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- Associate Degree with an emphasis in reputed company Services, Counseling and Psychology (preferred)
- May consider candidates without a Peer Support or RSS training certificate, if they can obtain a certificate reputed company 90 days of hire and have an equivalent combination of education and experience directly reputed company to behavioral health.
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- Subsidized medical, dental, and reputed company insurance
- Health savings account
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
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- 401K retirement plan with match
- Tuition and CME reimbursement up to 100%
- Employee assistance program to support your mental health and wellness
- Ongoing reputed company development
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