Full and Part Time Peer Support Specialist/Recovery Coach Job at Rose Street Advisors
The Recovery Institute is a peer-driven non-profit organization that promotes individual recovery for mental health and addiction concerns. Founded in 2006, we serve Kalamazoo County by offering peer support to people who have mental health and/or substance use concerns. We are a community that embraces recovery, wellness, and mutual support, where everyone is afforded opportunities to contribute and thrive according to his or her own desires and wishes.
The Recovery Institute seeks people to serve our community as
Part-time and Full-time Peer Support Specialists/Recovery Coaches. The work of a Peer Support Specialist/Recovery Coach will include:
- Facilitating groups and classes,
- Providing one-on-one peer support,
- Helping people access community resources including health and treatment options, and
- Sharing your personal lived experience with mental health and/or addiction concerns.
These positions have a starting wage of $15.34/hour. The Full-time positions come with generous health benefits and paid time off. The part-time positions also offer some paid time off. Currently, RI staff work out of our office building (located near Westnedge and Vine) as well as out in the community at various medical clinics, hospitals, libraries and Kalamazoo county courts. Many of our services are also delivered via the internet, so we require that our staff be comfortable using computer software.
Recovery Institute is a peer-driven nonprofit organization that promotes individual recovery for mental health and addiction concerns. All applicants must:
- Be diversity-minded,
- Be able to demonstrate experience with guiding, supporting and mentoring others,
- Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills,
- Possess a valid and current driver’s license as well as reliable transportation,
- Be able to obtain a chauffeur’s license,
- Have a strong personal knowledge of what it is like to have first-hand lived experience with a mental health condition that has caused a substantial life disruption, and
- Have personal experience navigating mental health and/or addiction treatment services.
Preference will be given to applicants who are already certified by the State of Michigan (Certified Peer Support Specialist and/or Certified Peer Recovery Coach).
Our preferred candidates for these positions will be able to speak fluently in both Spanish and English.
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