Peer Support Specialist

What You’ll Do

• Build supportive relationships with clients by drawing on and appropriately sharing your lived or living experience of recovery
• Offer connection, encouragement, and hope to individuals navigating substance use and concurrent mental health challenges
• Share recovery insights and coping strategies to encourage hope and connection
• Facilitate peer-led groups
• Support clients in identifying personal goals and steps toward recovery and independence
• Work collaboratively with staff while bringing a peer perspective to the interdisciplinary team

Maintain professional boundaries within the peer role and participate in agency-wide peer initiatives.

Qualifications

• Comfort identifying as a person with lived or living experience of substance use and/or mental health recovery and using that experience in a peer support role
• Ability to act as a positive recovery role m...