Certified Peer Support Specialist

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.

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.

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