Certified Peer Support Specialist
Impactlife
·Yesterday
- Location
- Georgetown, Delaware
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Clinical
- Education
- High School
- Source
- Workable
Description
Certified Peer Support Specialist
Location: Georgetown, Delaware / Sussex County
Position Type: Full-Time
Department: Georgetown Recovery Capital
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.