Certified Peer Recovery Specialist

Evolve Life Centers•Pasadena, MD

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
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

Employees in safety-sensitive positions are held to heightened standards due to the nature of their responsibilities and the potential impact on employee, client, and public safety. The use of substances that may cause sedation, impairment, or diminished alertness — including but not limited to opioids, marijuana, and benzodiazepines — may not be permitted while performing duties in these roles.

Responsibilities

Assist clients in articulating personal goals for recovery through the use of one-to-one and group sessions.
Support clients in identifying and creating goals and developing recovery plans with the skills, strengths, supports and resources to aid them in achieving those goals.
Assist clients in working with their case manager or treatment team in determining the steps he/she needs to take in order to achieve these goals and self-directed recovery.
Assist clients in setting up and sustaining self-help (mutual support) groups, as well as means of 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.
Utilize and teach problem solving techniques with individuals and groups; discussions will be utilized where clients will share common problems in daily living and methods they have employed to manage and cope with these problems.
Share own experiences and what skills, strengths, supports and resources they use as one who has availed themselves to mental health services.
Share own recovery story and as the facilitator of these sessions, demonstrate how they have directed their own recovery.
Use ongoing individual and group sessions to teach clients how to identify and combat negative self-talk and how to identify and overcome fears by providing a forum which allows group members and CPRS to share their experiences.
Support clients’ vocational choices and assist them in choosing a job that matches their strengths, 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.
Teach and role model the value of every individual’s recovery experience.
Assist the client in obtaining decent and affordable housing of his/her choice in the most integrated, independent, and least intrusive or restrictive environment by taking them out to view housing, either driving them or riding with them on public transportation.
Model effective coping techniques and self-help strategies.
Serve as a recovery agent by providing and advocating for any effective recovery-based services that will aid the client in daily living.
Assist in obtaining services that suit that individual’s recovery needs by providing names of staff, community resources and groups that may be useful.
Inform clients about community and natural supports and how to use these in the recovery process.
Assist clients in developing empowerment skills and combating stigma through self-advocacy.
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.
Work with the clients and other treatment team staff to develop a treatment/recovery plan based on each client’s identified goals.
Document on the client’s treatment/recovery plan: identified person-centered strengths, needs, abilities, and recovery goals interventions to assist the client with reaching their goals for recovery progress made toward goals.