Certified Peer Support Specialist
About The Role
Impact Life is seeking a compassionate and recovery-oriented Certified Peer Support Specialist to join our Georgetown Recovery Capital program. The Certified Peer Support Specialist provides individualized peer recovery support using a Recovery Capital-based approach. This position helps participants strengthen recovery stability, remain engaged in outpatient treatment, and build the personal, family/social, community, and cultural resources that support long-term recovery. The position provides recovery coaching, participant engagement, recovery monitoring, resource navigation, recovery-focused activities, and ongoing support for participants experiencing barriers or setbacks that could affect their engagement in treatment and recovery.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide individualized peer recovery coaching and strengths-based support based on participants' identified recovery goals.
- Build supportive relationships that promote hope, self-determination, personal choice, and engagement.
- Maintain regular participant contact and provide ongoing encouragement, recovery monitoring, and follow-up.
- Support participants during transitions, setbacks, and periods of increased vulnerability.
- Help implement individualized Recovery Capital Plans in collaboration with participants and the Recovery Capital Coordinator.
- Help participants identify and strengthen personal, family/social, community, and cultural Recovery Capital.
- Connect participants with healthcare, behavioral health services, SUD treatment, housing, employment, transportation, benefits, education, and other resources.
- Connect participants with recovery communities, peer supports, wellness resources, volunteer opportunities, and meaningful community activities.
- Provide warm handoffs and follow through on referrals.
- Facilitate or support recovery-focused groups and participant engagement activities.
- Collaborate with the Recovery Capital Coordinator, outpatient providers, peer staff, and community partners.
- Maintain timely and accurate documentation of participant contacts, services, referrals, follow-up, progress, and outcomes.
- Support collection of Recovery Capital outcomes and other required program data.
Required Qualifications
- Current Certified Peer Recovery Specialist (CPRS) certification required.
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Knowledge of peer-support principles, recovery-oriented systems of care, professional boundaries, and person-centered practice.
- Strong communication, relationship-building, documentation, organization, and follow-through skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively with participants, treatment providers, peer staff, and community partners.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and appropriately handle sensitive participant information.
- Ability to travel to community and partner locations as required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience providing peer recovery support, recovery coaching, community-based services, outreach, resource navigation, or related human services.
- Knowledge of Recovery Capital.
- Experience supporting individuals with opioid use disorder, stimulant use disorder, co-occurring behavioral health conditions, or complex social needs.
- Familiarity with healthcare, behavioral health, recovery, housing, employment, transportation, and community resources in Sussex County.
What We're Looking For
We're looking for someone who understands how to use peer-support principles to build connection and hope while maintaining appropriate professional and ethical boundaries. The ideal candidate is dependable, strengths-based, person-centered, comfortable working in the community, and committed to helping participants identify and build the resources that support their individual recovery goals.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) and Roth 401(k) retirement options
- Paid time off
- 11 paid holidays annually
- Training and professional development opportunities
- Wellness resources