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**City/State:** Belleville, Illinois

**Categories:** Clinical Services and Support

**Job Status:** Full-Time

**Req ID** : 103017

**Pay Range:** $17.75 – $25.56 / hour (Salary or hourly rate is based on job qualifications and relevant work experience)

Additional Information About the Role

BJC HealthCare System is hiring a **Full-Time** **Peer Recovery Specialist** for **Memorial Hospital (Belleville, IL)** _&_ **_Memorial Hospital (Shiloh, IL)_**

_Are you in active recovery and looking to help others with their addictions? Become a Peer Recovery Specialist with Memorial Hospital!!!!_

_Opportunities to share your lived experiences and help others struggling through similar situations._

_Create relationships with rehabilitation facilities and assist with transitioning patients to those facilities._

_Work with a team of other Peers and opportunity to help grow a much-needed service within our community._

Position Details:

+ Full-Time - 40 Hours / Week

+ Day Shift: M-F (8:30am-5pm) - potential for weekend hours in the future

+ Engage with individuals who are going through active recovery

+ Complete biopsychosocial assessments, assess for levels of withdrawal

+ Provide support and assist in transitions of care

+ Mainly see patients in person with some phone/office work & Telephonic On Call Support will be a part of the role

+ Medical Stabilization Program

+ Assisting Recovering Addicts

Experience:

+ Must be in active recovery – no experience required

+ Passion to help others struggling with addiction

+ Active Recovery, Recovery Coach, CRS, Peer Advocate, Recovery Support

_Requirements:_

+ High School Diploma or GED Required

Why Join Us?

+ Work with a highly skilled, compassionate, supportive, and caring team

+ Growth Opportunities to learn new skills and advance (cross-train)

Next Steps:

+ If selected to move forward with Interview Process, a Talent Advisor will contact you via email for a screen

Overview

**Memorial Hospital Belleville** is an acute care hospital offering medical and surgical services plus critical and emergency care including Children’s at Memorial for pediatric emergency care. It provides patients a full complement of diagnostic and treatment services as well as heart and vascular care. Memorial, offering medical and surgical services plus critical care, is an accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI by the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care and is designated as an Acute Stroke Ready Hospital by the Illinois Department of Public Health. In addition, Memorial Belleville recently was accredited by the American College of Radiology as a designated Lung Cancer Screening Center. Since 2008, it has been designated as a Magnet®-recognized organization for nursing excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

**Memorial Hospital Shiloh** , a 94-bed, all-private suite hospital was recognized with Magnet status in 2018 and provides emergency care, labor & delivery, nursery, medical and surgical services plus critical care.

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

Trained to incorporate their unique personal experience in their own recovery with a knowledge base in human services and addiction, the Peer Recovery Specialist (PRS) will engage with individuals identified with Opioid Use Disorders or other Substance Use Disorders in both the hospital’s inpatient and outpatient departments. The PRS will be trained to utilize Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) with the goal of decreasing mortality rates and increasing linkage to treatment for those living with addiction. This position is part of a two year grant funded by SAMHSA and administered through the State of Illinois.

Responsibilities

+ Provide SBIRT to patients identified with Opioid Use Disorders and Substance Use Disorders throughout the hospital. Build therapeutic alliances with each patient utilizing motivational interviewing techniques and working collaboratively with the medical staff, patient and family. Serve as a role model for individuals seeking recovery. Help individuals identify options and participate in all decisions related to his/her recovery goals.

+ Utilizing a harm reduction model of care, the PRS will work with each patient in developing an individualized treatment plan which includes but is not limited to the induction of buprenorphine, ensuring its availability to patients until each patient is linked to a MAT provider and ensuring each patient is discharged with naloxone.

+ Link patients to treatment and ensure a smooth transition to the next level of care. Follow-up to ensure that each patient attended his/her initial appointment to treatment. Following discharge from the hospital, contact the patients regularly to provide support, address barriers to treatment and facilitate further linkage to community organizations.

+ Serve as an active member of the treatment team and will document service provision in the patient’s medical record. Provide addiction education to medical staff. Build relationships with both medical providers and community organizations to improve overall patient outcomes.

+ Participate in data reporting to the state of Illinois.

Minimum Requirements

Education

+ High School Diploma or GED

Preferred Requirements

Experience

+ 2-5 years

Supervisor Experience

+ No Experience

Licenses & Certifications

+ Cert Peer Recovery Spec - IL

+ Valid Driver's License

Benefits and Legal Statement

BJC Total Rewards

At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

+ Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date

+ Disability insurance* paid for by BJC

+ Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution

+ 401(k) plan with BJC match

+ Tuition Assistance available on first day

+ BJC Institute for Learning and Development

+ Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

+ Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time

+ Adoption assistance

To learn more, go to our** **Benefits Summary** **.

*Not all benefits apply to all jobs

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer