Registered Peer Recovery Specialist

We are looking for a Peer Recovery Specialist (PRS) to round out our team!

The Peer Recovery Specialist uses personal lived experience with mental health and/or substance use recovery to provide strengths-based, person-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally competent peer support to participants engaged in behavioral health treatment services. The PRS offers non-clinical support, models recovery, assists participants in setting goals, and helps them navigate systems of care and community resources.

Work Schedule / Shift Expectations

This position follows a structured four-day, 10-hour schedule designed to support residential peer programming coverage Thursday–Sunday, 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. This schedule supports coverage of peer recovery groups, participant engagement activities, orientation groups, and interdisciplinary collaboration across residential program hours. Schedule adjustments may occasionally occur based on census needs, admissions flow, group coverage priorities, or program operations.

Essential

Duties and Responsibilities

• Build authentic, non-clinical, non-hierarchical relationships with participants based on mutuality, trust, shared lived experience, and respect.
• Utilize personal recovery story to provide hope, encouragement, and modeling of recovery and resiliency.
• Assist participants in developing individualized Recovery, Resiliency, and Wellness Plans (RRWPs).
• Provide structured, Medicaid-compliant Peer Recovery Support Services in accordance with DMAS requirements and 12VAC30-130-5160 through 5210.
• Maintain an active billable caseload of no more than 15 participants, meeting minimum engagement expectations through regular individual peer support contacts and facilitation of peer recovery groups, including collaborative co-facilitation alongside clinical staff; complete Recovery, Resiliency, and Wellness Plans (RRWPs) prior to billing services.
• Complete timely and accurate documentation in the electronic record in accordance with Medicaid standards as well as agency, and licensing requirements.
• Participate in warm handoffs, recovery planning, discharge support, and follow-up care coordination to support continuity of care.
• Support participant advocacy, self-determination, and meaningful goal-setting consistent with person-centered recovery principles.
• Participate in interdisciplinary team meetings while maintaining appropriate Peer Recovery Specialist scope of practice.
• Maintain appropriate ethical boundaries and confidentiality at all times in accordance with peer support ethics and organizational policy.