PEER RECOVERY SUPPORT SPECIALIST

Preferred Behavioral Health Group•Hackensack, NJ

2h•$0 - $37,500•Onsite

About The Position

The Peer Recovery Support Specialist (PRSS) draws on lived experience to offer hope and recovery support to individuals experiencing substance use disorder. The role provides encouragement, support, outreach, service linkages, and advocacy, and builds connections with parents or caregivers while helping them work toward recovery goals and model personal responsibility. Direct services may include outreach and engagement, assistance with daily living skills, connection to community supports, transportation, in-home services, and advocacy. The specialist helps parents or caregivers and their families recognize that recovery is possible and builds on individual strengths, coping abilities, and resources. In collaboration with the parent or caregiver, the specialist develops and monitors a culturally competent Recovery Plan with measurable goals and objectives, identified strengths and barriers, and relevant services. The position also supports recovery skills, recovery-supportive environments, participation in the recovery community, and self-directed recovery choices. The specialist educates families about navigating treatment, social service, and recovery support systems and attends specified family meetings, consultations, consortia, and agency staff meetings. This is a full-time position in the CPSAI program, based at the Bergen Office at 125 State Street, 2nd Floor, Hackensack, New Jersey. Starting salary is $37,500. Preferred Behavioral Health Group describes itself as a nonprofit behavioral health organization serving New Jersey and emphasizes a trauma-informed care culture, staff development, and a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalency.
Written and verbal communication skills.
Basic computer skills.
Valid driver’s license.
Must be at least 21 years of age.
At least two continuous years of sustained recovery.
Must pass a pre-employment drug test and background check with fingerprinting.
Complete Department of Children and Families-approved Peer Recovery Support Service training, including Ethics and Division of Child Protection and Permanency training.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree preferred.
Knowledge of addictions preferred.
Additional training may include Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Human Trafficking, Psychological First Aid, and agency-specific training.

Responsibilities

Offer encouragement, support, outreach, service linkages, and advocacy to people experiencing substance use disorder, drawing on lived experience.
Cultivate connections with parents or caregivers and coach them toward recovery goals while modeling personal responsibility.
Provide direct services as needed, including outreach and engagement, assistance with daily living skills, linkage to community supports, transportation, in-home services, and advocacy.
Reinforce that recovery is possible and build on the strengths, coping abilities, and resources of parents or caregivers and their families.
Help parents or caregivers gain the skills and resources needed to initiate and maintain recovery.
Help establish and sustain social and physical environments that support recovery.
Enhance identification with and participation in the recovery community.
Empower parents or caregivers to make self-determined and self-directed choices about their recovery pathway.
Develop a Recovery Plan collaboratively with the parent or caregiver, including culturally competent and relevant services, measurable goals and objectives, strengths, barriers, and progress monitoring.
Educate parents or caregivers about navigating treatment, social service, and recovery support systems.
Serve as a positive role model by sharing knowledge, hope, and skills.
Attend Family Team Meetings and Focus on Supervision as requested; participate in case consultation with the parent or caregiver and DCP&P case worker; attend consortia when a parent or caregiver is presented; and attend agency staff meetings.