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Peer Recovery Support Specialist

Ascension Recovery Services
Morgantown, USA
Full-time
Mid
Onsite
Discovered 3 days ago
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What You’ll Do

  • As a Peer Recovery Support Specialist, you will provide non-clinical, recovery-focused support to individuals receiving substance use disorder treatment.
  • Responsibilities include:
  • Build supportive, professional relationships with patients based on trust, respect, shared experience, and recovery principles.
  • Use appropriate lived experience to provide encouragement, hope, mentorship, and practical recovery support.
  • Help patients identify personal recovery goals and strengthen their recovery capital.
  • Assist patients in identifying and overcoming barriers that may interfere with sustained recovery.
  • Help patients develop recovery skills, healthy routines, coping strategies, and community connections.
  • Connect patients with mutual-support meetings, peer networks, community resources, and other recovery-oriented services.
  • Support patients in developing a strong recovery community before transitioning from treatment.
  • Reinforce treatment goals and encourage continued engagement in clinical and recovery services.
  • Collaborate with clinical staff, case managers, medical staff, BHTs, and other members of the interdisciplinary treatment team.
  • Participate in treatment team meetings and communicate relevant patient needs or concerns to appropriate team members.
  • Complete required documentation accurately and timely in accordance with organizational and regulatory requirements.
  • Maintain appropriate professional and ethical boundaries with patients at all times.
  • Maintain confidentiality and comply with HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, organizational policies, and applicable state and federal requirements.
  • Recognize and promptly communicate safety concerns, relapse risks, behavioral changes, or other concerns to the appropriate clinical or supervisory team member.
  • Participate in required training, supervision, competency assessments, and professional development.
  • Maintain all required Peer Recovery Support Specialist credentials throughout employment.
  • Perform other duties related to peer recovery support and patient care as assigned.

Who You Are

  • The ideal candidate understands recovery as a process and knows how powerful it can be for someone entering treatment to connect with another person who has walked a similar path.
  • You are:
  • Passionate about helping others achieve and maintain recovery.
  • Comfortable sharing appropriate aspects of your own recovery experience when therapeutically helpful.
  • Able to establish strong relationships while maintaining clear professional boundaries.
  • Compassionate, dependable, and emotionally grounded.
  • Able to work effectively with individuals from different backgrounds and recovery pathways.
  • Comfortable working as part of a multidisciplinary behavioral health team.
  • Able to communicate concerns appropriately without stepping outside the scope of the peer role.
  • High school diploma or GED required.
  • Personal lived experience with substance use disorder and recovery consistent with West Virginia Peer Recovery Support Specialist requirements.
  • Current and active West Virginia Peer Recovery Support Specialist certification required or ability to obtain required certification prior to independently providing PRSS services.
  • Certification must remain active and in good standing throughout employment.
  • Ability to complete all required facility orientation, competency, compliance, confidentiality, and safety training.
  • Ability to successfully complete required background screening and pre-employment requirements.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Basic computer skills and ability to complete electronic documentation.
  • West Virginia Medicaid recognizes PRSS services as recovery-focused, nonclinical services provided by individuals with direct lived experience of addiction and recovery. Current state guidance requires an active West Virginia peer recovery certification for Medicaid PRSS services.
  • Work Conditions
  • Work is primarily performed within a behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment environment.
  • Position requires regular interaction with patients who may be experiencing emotional distress, behavioral health symptoms, or challenges associated with early recovery.
  • May require standing, walking, sitting, and moving throughout the facility for extended periods.
  • Schedule may include evenings, weekends, holidays, or other shifts based on patient and facility needs.
  • Compensation
  • Competitive hourly compensation based on experience, qualifications, certification, and internal equity.
  • Equal Employment Opportunity
  • Wise Path Recovery Centers and Ascension Recovery Services are equal opportunity employers. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Requirements

  • Experience working in behavioral health, substance use disorder treatment, residential treatment, recovery housing, community recovery services, or a related setting preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working in behavioral health, substance use disorder treatment, residential treatment, recovery housing, community recovery services, or a related setting preferred.

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