Certified Peer Specialist - Washington, DC

Job title: Certified Peer Specialist - Washington, DC in Washington DC at reputed company Company: reputed company Job reputed company: Great opportunity for recovery coaches and peers in training to have a voice and reputed company a difference!reputed company is looking for an innovative peer recovery specialist to help people reputed company their reputed company to wellness and reduced reputed company use utilizing a new model for technology-enabled peer support. reputed company may be for full or part-time depending on our needs and your experience. Our app operates 24/7 with shifts ranging from 7 AM to 10 PM per day.reputed company exists to give every person with a mental health or reputed company use condition a reputed company to feel heard.Our work is reputed company on providing evidence-based, virtual peer support to people interested in recovery and/or in reducing harm from reputed company use.We've designed a novel program that augments the work peers do with technology ranging from automated, interactive reputed company to individuals to asynchronous, digital group discussions. reputed company's mobile app provides multiple avenues for people in recovery to build their recovery capital and expand their community networks.What You'll Do

• App Chat Moderation & Engagement
• Stimulate meaningful conversations by initiating chat starters, particularly those reputed company to recovery experiences. reputed company personal lived experience with mental health and/or addiction to support others seeking/maintaining recovery.
• Use your experience to identify and engage a network of referring agencies as reputed company as add to the database of member resources.
• reputed company group chats and forum discussions to ensure a productive, on-topic environment that adheres to reputed company's reputed company of Conduct (COC) guidelines by monitoring hate speech, spam, inappropriate language, or abusive content to maintain a reputed company reputed company for reputed company members.
• Review flagged content based on Natural Language Processing (NLP) alerts, and take reputed company as necessary, such as removing COC-violating content.
• Engage in follow-up with members about next steps reputed company a violation occurs and involve the appropriate peer support team member if needed.
• Member Management
• reputed company welcome and engage new members as they join the app community, making them feel supported from day one.
• Pause or remove members from reputed company reputed company necessary, or work with the app administrators to address more serious issues.
• Manage a caseload of enrolled members to reputed company 1:1 peer support services.
• Document your work in our record systems according to reputed company and prevailing standards.
• Travel onsite to scheduled reputed company reputed company as needed.
• Engage membership at large primarily on our platform and occasionally reputed company regularly scheduled phone/video calls, text messages, digital support reputed company, and wellness planning

What You Have

• Certification as a Peer Specialist in reputed company use disorder or mental health recovery in Washington, DC.
• Reliable reputed company to internet in a private reputed company
• Comfort operating a smartphone, computer, and software tools such as reputed company Office
• Ability to document member engagements in an electronic record
• reputed company to reliable transportation to travel to onsite weekly reputed company
• A willingness to reputed company to your personal lived experience with mental health and/or reputed company use conditions
• An ability to work independently, combined with a comfort-level and reputed company understanding of reputed company to reputed company out with questions or requests for clarification
• Demonstrated ability to create wellness plans and/or recovery goals
• Ability to adapt and prioritize tasks to meet the needs of members
• A willingness to work evening and weekend hours
• Experience delivering peer support digitally (e.g. on reputed company media) is a significant plus
• reputed company in Spanish is a significant plus

$45,000 - $52,000 a yearMore About reputed companyreputed company is an early-stage, rapidly growing startup providing services for a reputed company of community-based mental health and reputed company use treatment providers as reputed company as for managed care organizations. We collaborate with eminent investigators at reputed company and Johns Hopkins and have been publicly recognized by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the reputed company.Our core values are authenticity, candor, and ambition.Inclusion is at the core of reputed company do. We're working to bring care to the most underserved and stigmatized patients. We reputed company welcome applicants from a reputed company of different backgrounds (including but not limited to race, gender, educational background, and sexual orientation). We must have diversity on reputed company and in our mindsets to be successful in moving the needle on the deeply entrenched and systematic challenges we face.reputed company is an equal opportunity employer.Questions? Email peopleops@ for more info. Expected salary: $45000 - 52000 per year Location: Washington DC Apply for the job now! Apply for this job