Do you like to help people get emotionally re-grounded after a crisis? Then check this out!
GreenTree Peer Support Program in Winston-Salem will be opening its expanded REFUGE Peer Crisis Support setting in August! We are seeking full time and part time staff for all shifts that we can hire and train ahead of our opening. We will build a team of peers who can help us ensure we offer high-value support to individuals that helps their crisis become a stepping stone to progress! This is a 24/7 setting and this program and may be studied to see if peer crisis support and linkage to resources reduces recidivism to emergency departments! Most individuals stay in the Refuge for one night.
Qualifications
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Certified Peer Support Specialist or training to be one
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Comfortable with people who are having uncomfortable experiences. Not compelled to fix, manage, or control people
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Capable to calmly hold space for someone experiencing emotional distress
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Comfortable working with people regardless of their sex or preferred sexual identity
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Can work with someone who is a current alcohol or other substance user without it triggering your own internal struggles
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Has a strong work ethic fueled by passion for growth, resilience, and recovery
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Is reliable and prompt with work commitments
Job Duties
Welcome and host Refuge guests ensuring their comfort, safety, hygiene, and nourishment
May meet referrals from local hospital emergency departments and transport them to the Refuge
Offer excellent listening support (Emotional CPR exemplary)
Assist, as desired by guest, to link to treatment or community resources or to the programing at the Peer Center and Nexus Recovery Support
Assist to prepare frozen meals for meal time.
Keep Refuge clean during and between guests. This includes ensuring meal areas stay clean, that laundry is done, bathrooms and showers are sanitary
Utilizing data gathering forms, ensure data that helps us ensure internal quality and informs our community advocacy. Assist with data collection related to research as may be required.
Ensure sense of safety, always using practices that are trauma-sensitive and restorative
Training will be provided to the selected peer staff.