One of our amazing affiliates, Conexio Care, is looking for compassionate and eager professionals to join our team in a rewarding career working with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities living in a residential group home. We are currently seeking qualified candidates to fill the role of WELLNESS AND RECOVERY PEER NAVIGATOR in Kent County, DE

We Offer Excellent Perks and Benefits:

• Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
• 401k, Life & Disability Insurance
• Generous PTO
• Paid Training & Career Advancement
• A Great Team Environment
• Competitive Wages
• DailyPay – A benefit that allows you to access your pay when you need it
• HSA & FSA
• Life Assistance Program
• Wellness Programs & more!

Responsibilities of Wellness and Recovery Peer Navigator:

• Promote recovery through modeling own personal self-confidence, achievements, and self-determination
• Provide mutual support, hope, reassurance, and advocacy
• Help clients aspire to roles that emphasize their strengths by sharing their personal experiences / stories
• Provide peer support to clients regarding their symptoms and the effects of trauma and trauma history, and helps them to develop positive coping skills and use of natural supports
• Engage clients through outreach and support
• Provide training and education to other team members on recovery-oriented care, peer support resources, psychiatric advance directives, wellness tools, trauma-informed care, and the use of creativity and the arts to promote recovery
• Attend interdisciplinary team meetings
• Assist person served to complete peer-related elements of the assessment and to prepare to attend their recovery plan meeting and to express their goals and needs
• Assist clients to accomplish their life goals of living in their chosen housing and community, working, having a natural support system, and having hobbies and other leisure activities which are creative and fun.
• Help clients and staff to develop and implement person-centered treatment plans.
• Facilitate peer recovery support groups.
• Act as an advocate for clients to obtain needed services and public benefits and to raise complaints and suggestions about unmet needs
• Provide on-call crisis intervention services as scheduled Attends the treatment team of all individuals for whom s/he is providing service and any individual that has been interested in receiving peer support

Requirements:

• High School Diploma or GED preferred
• The Wellness and Recovery Peer Navigator is an individual who has a unique perspective because of his/her own experience with a serious and persistent mental illness, substance abuse, or a co-occurring disorder. S/he must be willing to self-disclose as appropriate and to attend training leading to certification.
• CPR and First Aid Certification
• Certification as Peer Recovery Specialist preferred but will consider a candidate with lived experience and a desire to pursue certification
• Valid driver’s license and clean MVR (motor vehicle record)
• Must be available to work weekends.

Who we are: Conexio Care, an affiliate of Apis Services, was founded in 1985 as a subsidiary of the organization then known as Church Home Foundation, Conexio’s original mission was to help older adults with lifelong histories of psychiatric hospitalization to transition into the community. Our mission expanded in 1988 to include homeless services and substance abuse treatment.

Apis Services, Inc. provides administrative services, including recruiting and onboarding new team members for over 30 for-profit and non-profit organizations across the USA so they can focus on their all-important missions. Apis Services Inc. is a progressive corporation with over 3500 employees nationwide and growing.

The employment opportunities we have to offer dedicated and caring career seekers are endless. Join us in helping to make a difference in the lives of others by providing good people to support the missions they serve. It’s time to make a difference! What’s your purpose in life?

We are an equal opportunity employer.