Certified Peer Recovery Specialist - Chemical Dependency Grant - Carle Health
Peoria, IL 61636
About the Job
Overview:Provide experience, education and professional services to assist and support individuals in developing and/or maintaining recovery-oriented, wellness-focused lifestyles.Responsibilities:Ensures Patients receive comprehensive services: Identification of patient into services, assessment, discharge planning, and other aspects of warm handoff.
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- Is knowledgeable and capable of working with patients who present a dual problem, Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Disorder.
- Identifying patient need for services and use identified evidence-based approach in identifying patient with Opiate Use Disorder (OUD).
- Is able to recruit and work with identified patients, using motivational interviewing to engage the patient and integrate the patient into Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) programming.
- Is able to engage patients with OUD and facilitate warm handoff.
- Ability to establish a collaborative relationship with the patient, provide practical and personalized support for entering and adhering to treatment
- Assist in creation of treatment planning
- Facilitate discharge planning and warm handoff.
- Ensuring that patient receives support and motivation to engage in and adhere to ongoing treatment.
- Provides that all patient contact and interaction is based upon inherent dignity, individuality, culture and beliefs of each patient. Patient care is provided in a compassionate, humane, and non-enabling manner.
- Participates in interdisciplinary clinical staffing or ensures pertinent information is provided to team
- Demonstrates Motivational Interviewing skills when working with patients.
- May be responsible for transporting patients to appointments
- Be available after discharge to deliver recovery support, as needed.
- Ability to bridge care with insurance correlated community services
- Provide follow up instructions, appointments, and coordination for discharge planning.
- Provide detailed communication to receptive discharge providers to ensure warm handoff in the care coordination process.
- Ability to identify barriers to transportation and assist with getting patient transportation to appointments
- Provide ongoing recovery support service to ensure patient arrives and is engaged by intake staff, and ensure that patient remains engaged in treatment overtime – helping the patient navigate stages of change and practical considerations.
- Work with insurance provided transportation programs to ensure transportation
- Is knowledgeable in understanding of addiction, signs of overdose, and administration of naloxone products.
- Ability to educate patient and family in opiate use and administration of naloxone products.
- Ability to provide consultation with patient, family, insurance provider, and treatment providers to confirm recommended course of treatment is covered and/or affordable.
- Ensures accurate documentation
- Collaborates with Case Managers and Data analyst to ensure documentation is present to supports warm hand off.
- Documents all Discharge Planning components accurately in EMR
- Assist with documentation in EMR to support quality initiatives
- Assist with audits for medical necessity documents as requested
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Source : Carle Health