Peer Support Specialist (Family Peer & Recovery Support)

Description

Schedule: Full-time, day shift, with a flexible schedule. One late-day shift per week is required, from 11:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Locations: Openings available at the following locations:

• Cincinnati, OH: 4633 Aicholtz Road, Cincinnati, OH 45244 (Clermont County)
• Mt. Orab, OH: 710 North High Street, Mt. Orab, OH 45154 (Brown County)

Make a Difference in the Lives of Children, Adults, and Families

Child Focus is seeking a compassionate, motivated, and dedicated Family Peer Support & Peer Recovery Support Specialist to support children, adults, parents, and families navigating behavioral health challenges, mental health concerns, substance use recovery, and complex service systems.

This position combines family peer support with peer recovery support to help individuals and families build on their strengths, develop resilience, access community resources, and work toward long-term stability and wellness.

Using lived experience, personal insight, and professional peer support training, you will help individuals and families feel heard, supported, and empowered. You will collaborate with clinicians, service providers, and community partners to connect clients with appropriate services and promote positive outcomes.

We welcome candidates who are passionate about helping others and committed to strengthening our community. 

Certified Peer Support Specialist provides community-based and/or home-based direct services to families involved in Mobile Response & Stabilization Services (MRSS) for the ongoing support of parents and their families involved in the intensive, in-home program. 

Peer Support Specialist will maintain an active caseload of approximately 8-15 families. 

Peer Support Specialist will accompany an MRSS clinician to in-person assessments for families with youth ages 0-20 experiencing behavioral and/or emotional crises. 

During MRSS responses, Peer Support Specialist will support parents, discuss ongoing services, complete paperwork, and offer further assistance as needed. 

Peer Support Specialist will explore services available to the family through Mobile Response & Stabilization Services, including individual/family therapy, CPST/TBS, connection to ongoing services, and immediate crisis support. 

Peer Support Specialist will complete documentation of services provided per agency and service contract. 

Peer Support Specialist will actively collaborate with MRSS team regarding current clients to assist families with stabilization. 

Essential Responsibilities:

• Providing empathetic listening and emotional support
• Assisting families in navigating systems
• Supplying information about child-serving systems, children’s behavioral health and development, and community resources
• Rendering advocacy support
• Facilitating familial engagement with service providers
• Engaging in safety and care planning; exploring and eliminating barriers to care plan follow-through
• Offering skill-building for parents that enhances resiliency, communication, advocacy and other areas affecting the ability to maintain a child with complex needs

Child Focus Excellent Benefits:

• Competitive salaries
• Comprehensive  medical, vision, dental insurance and EAP program
• Health Savings and Flex Spending account options with agency match
• Generous paid time off
• Extended Illness benefits
• 403(b) retirement plan with generous employer match
• Company Car program and mileage reimbursement
• Federal Student Loan Forgiveness program eligibility and tuition reimbursement
• Paid Internships
• On-site childcare with employee discount
• Employee wellness benefits

If you are passionate about peer support, family empowerment, and recovery, we encourage you to apply.

Join Child Focus and help individuals and families build stronger futures.

Requirements

• Must hold a current Certified Family Peer Supporter or Peer Recovery Supporter credential, or be eligible to obtain certification based on relevant lived experience.
• High school diploma or equivalent.