Recovery Specialist Peer
Resume:
Katrina R. Sykes, Registered Peer Recovery Specialist
Abingdon, VA 24211-4113
Email: ************@*****.*** Phone contact: 276-***-****
Purpose
To obtain a Registered Peer Recovery Specialist position within a medication assisted treatment assisted facility that provides evidence-based care to a variety of patient population.
Work History
Watauga Medical Group/ Revida Recovery 2013-2020
Duties included daily monitoring of, interacting with, and assisting patients, and their families that suffer from substance-use disorder. Responsibilities included trying to keep Patients actively engaged with their recovery, special interest included assisting low resource and improvised families. Secondary skills included acting as a liaison between Patients and insurance companies.
Certifications-Skills
Registered {Per Recovery Specialist – licensed from, 2018-present
Full understudying of both medical and prescription coverage requirements of Medicare, VA Medicaid, and multiple third-party payor’s requirements, including prescription’s prior authorizations.
I interact with patients in over a one-hundred-mile radius from my office, requiring me to carefully understand both federal, but also state, and differing local statutes and codes that patients use to re-engage with many services. My management strategy teaches patients the self-care skills to stay well, not only physically, but also spiritually and mentally. I have several certifications that provide me the knowledge, an experience to assist dis-engaged with their providers and insurers. However, my true abilities are gleaned from a personal understanding of growing up in this area, experiencing poverty in the past, both and child and adult, and understanding how that powerlessness steers members away from preventive health care.
Personal History
I have a comprehensive understanding of the Virginia Medicaid program, because I am the product of this very system that members are currently navigating. Learning to navigate this system has afforded me opportunities, which I can pass on to others. Although I realize that this information is unconventional to divulge in a resume, I feel it is necessary to explain that as a childhood product of the system, I very much understand the concerns of members who access Medicaid. My current position allows me to interact with patients in over a one hundred-mile radius from my office, requiring me to carefully understand (and be correct), about both federal and state, but also local statutes and codes through which patients can re-engage with health care services. When I manage patients correctly, our interactions teach them the self-care skills to stay well, not only physically, but also spiritually and mentally, and I, in turn, receive encouragement to continue their health care seeking behaviors. I possess both an insider’s experience of the system – I grew up in the Virginia foster system as well, and thus can explain well to patients how to navigate the appropriate loopholes that would otherwise be overwhelming.
Skills and Certifications
Registered Peer Recovery Specialist
Ability to manage multiple caseloads simultaneously
Certified inn Wellness, Recovery, Access, Plan (WRAP) model
Obtained Level III Peer-Assistance coordinator through Watauga Medical Group
Understanding of current Medicare and Medicaid eligibility requirements
Personal connection with Occupational Enterprises, a non-profit that finds stable jobs for participants
Extensive understanding of formularies, ability to assist client renewing or entering Medicare programs
Thorough knowledge of both local, state, and federal resources available to patient
Education
Currently pursuing Bachelor of Science in Social service, with emphasis in Addiction and Recovery. Currently eligible for Health Science Certificate thru VHCC. Grundy High School Graduated Of 1997,
Various social sciences classes at both Southwest Virginia Community College, and Highlands Community college 2004-2014
Grundy High School Graduate, Grundy, VA 1998
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