# Certified Peer Support Specialist

**Company:** [Impact Life](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/msr4LwEVGsT8rNXqEjqhxs.md)
**Location:** Georgetown, United States
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time

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## 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.

## Requirements

### 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

Impact Life offers eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package, including:

-   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