PEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST
Posted on: 21 Mar 2021
Fort Washington, PA
Job Description
Job Description
Responsibilities
The Peer Specialist is an active member of the Extended Acute Care team, and provides peer support services to patients. The Peer Specialist will act as a role model to peers; exhibiting competency in personal recovery and use of coping skills; serve as a consumer advocate, providing consumer information and peer support. The goal is helping patients to regain independence within the community and mastery over their own recovery process.
Qualifications
Education/Experience: High school diploma or GED plus 12 college credits. Certified by completion of the 10 day Certified Peer Specialist Program. Knowledge of the Recovery process and the ability to facilitate recovery using basic problem solving strategies to support individual patients in self-directed recovery. Minimum of three (3) years of experience.
Universal Health Services
King of Prussia, PA
Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) is one of the nation’s largest and most respected healthcare management companies, operating through its subsidiaries, behavioral health facilities, acute care hospitals and ambulatory centers throughout the United States, the United Kingdom and Puerto Rico. UHS was founded in 1979 by Alan B. Miller, Chairman and CEO, and today has more than 87,000 employees. UHS maintains one of the strongest balance sheets and is rated among the highest in the hospital services industry by Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s. This strong capital position has enabled the company to develop and acquire many new facilities over the past few years.
The UHS strategy is to build or purchase healthcare properties in rapidly growing markets and create a strong franchise based on exceptional service and effective cost control. UHS owes its success to a responsive management style and to a service philosophy that is based on integrity, competence and compassion.
The healthcare industry remains a place of rapid change and uncertainty. But with strength, experience and foresight to chart its own course, UHS has every reason to face the future with optimism.
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IndustryHealthcare
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No. of Employees87,000
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Jobs Posted7367
