Certified Peer Recovery Specialist
About The Position
Evolve Life Centers delivers an innovative, client-centered approach to behavioral healthcare and recovery housing. Our team of experienced addiction and mental health professionals is dedicated to creating meaningful, long-term change by fostering supportive, lasting social connections that extend well beyond treatment. We offer a comprehensive continuum of care, including low- and medium-intensity residential substance use treatment, partial hospitalization (PHP), intensive outpatient (IOP), outpatient services, aftercare, educational substance use program, outpatient mental health therapy, primary care services, and recovery housing. This integrated model ensures that individuals receive the right level of care at every stage of their recovery journey. Our mission is to “Make a difference so impactful, that we get to experience the best life WE have ever known.” Our vision is “To positively affect so many lives, that we change the world.” We are guided by our core values of compassion, adaptability, commitment, and drive, which shape our culture, inform our clinical approach, and inspire our team to continuously evolve in service of those we support.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or GED
- Licensed in Maryland as a Certified Peer Support Specialist
- Valid Driver's License
- Certified Peer Recovery Specialist certification (CPRS)
- Organizational and administrative skills
- Able to communicate effectively (both written and oral skills)
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to work under pressure
- Familiarity with health and safety issues
Nice To Haves
- Utilize and teach problem-solving techniques with individuals and groups.
- Share personal experiences and skills, strengths, supports, and resources used.
- Share recovery story and demonstrate how they have directed their own recovery.
- Teach clients how to identify and combat negative self-talk and overcome fears.
- Support clients’ vocational choices and assist them in choosing a job that matches their strengths.
- Assist clients in overcoming job-related anxiety by reviewing job applications and providing interview tips.
- Assist clients in building social skills in the community that will enhance job acquisition and tenure.
- Model effective coping techniques and self-help strategies.
- Provide opportunities for others to show/demonstrate how they have handled similar problems, how to present themselves in certain situations, or how to handle problems that may arise in interactions with others.
Responsibilities
- Function as a role model to peers, exhibiting competency in personal recovery and use of coping skills.
- Serve as a consumer advocate, providing consumer information and peer support for clients at recovery houses.
- Assist clients in articulating personal goals for recovery through one-to-one and group sessions, supporting them in identifying and creating goals and developing recovery plans.
- Assist clients in working with their case manager or treatment team to determine the steps needed to achieve goals and self-directed recovery.
- Assist clients in setting up and sustaining self-help (mutual support) groups, and locating and joining existing groups.
- Utilize tools such as the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) to assist clients in creating their own individual wellness and recovery plans.
- Teach and role model the value of every individual’s recovery experience.
- Assist clients in obtaining decent and affordable housing of their choice by viewing housing options with them.
- Serve as a recovery agent by providing and advocating for effective recovery-based services that aid the client in daily living.
- Assist in obtaining services that suit an individual’s recovery needs by providing names of staff, community resources, and groups.
- Inform clients about community and natural supports and how to use them in the recovery process.
- Assist clients in developing empowerment skills and combating stigma through self-advocacy.
- Work with clients and other treatment team staff to develop a treatment/recovery plan based on each client’s identified goals.
- Document identified person-centered strengths, needs, abilities, and recovery goals on the client’s treatment/recovery plan.
- Document interventions to assist the client with reaching their goals for recovery on the client’s treatment/recovery plan.
- Document progress made toward goals on the client’s treatment/recovery plan.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
