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• High School Diploma, General Education Degree (GED), or degree of higher education • Certified Recovery Peer Advocate (CRPA) or Certified Recovery Peer Advocate provisional required; or the ability to obtain certification within six (6) months of hire. • Chemical dependency and/or mental health experience preferred • Ability to speak effectively before groups • Meet with clients at Central Park Recovery who have been identified as having a high risk of relapse, at intake or prior discharge to provide support to their individual recovery plans • Utilizing your recovery expertise, professional training and lived experience, support individuals' engagement in treatment and commitment to recovery. • Help to initiate and sustain an individual/family in their recovery from substance use and/or addiction. Provide support and guidance, in person or via telephone. • Promote recovery by removing barriers and obstacles to successful recovery. • Meet with identified clients onsite or in the community, and serve as a personal guide and mentor for those clients through their early recovery • Help the identified clients find resources for treatment, family support and education, local or online support groups • Support identified clients find ways to stop using (abstinence) or reduce harm associated with addictive behaviors • Accompany identified clients to their first appointments with aftercare, and initial self-help meeting as needed; or provide a link to connect clients to community-based recovery support consistent with treatment, recovery and discharge plans. • Help to ensure participant directed care by assisting the individual to build the specific skills and relationships he or she needs in order to achieve and maintain recovery by mentoring and motivating patients. • Provides peer support and guidance when patients are in the disciplinary stages due to non-compliance with program policies and procedures as directed by supervision • Be available to colleagues on the unit and elsewhere in the facility to consult around special mental health needs and services for patients • Documents as directed in the clinical record when appropriate and complete all necessary documentation for billing. • When off site, supervisor will always be notified and consulted • Alerts the director and/or assistant director of any break of policy immediately. • Other duties as assigned