Top 32 Certified peer specialist Jobs in Newark De

Peer Support Specialist - Behavioral Health
Limen Recovery + Wellness —Wilmington, DE
- From $20 an hour
- Weekends as needed
- Background check
- Medication administration
- Psychiatry
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
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Certified Recovery Specialist
LEGACY TREATMENT SERVICES GROUP —Coatesville, PA
- $20 - $24 an hour
- Weekends as needed
- High school
- High school diploma or GED
- Driver's License
- 403(b) matching
- Paid holidays
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Peer Support Specialist - New Castle
ARS Treatment Centers —New Castle, DE
- Monday to Friday
- Mid-level
- High school diploma or GED
- Clinic
- Paid holidays
- Disability insurance
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Certified Peer Specialist
LEGACY TREATMENT SERVICES GROUP —Coatesville, PA
- $22.00 - $24.50 an hour
- Weekends as needed
- High school
- High school diploma or GED
- Driver's License
- 403(b) matching
- Paid holidays
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Certified Peer Support Specialist
AQUILA OF DE INC —Bear, DE
- Part-time
- High school diploma or GED
- Entry level
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Peer Support Specialist I
Recovery Innovations —Wilmington, DE
- $18 - $21 an hour
- Full-time
- Background check
- 18 years or older
- Computer literacy
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
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Contracted Counselor I
Center for Racial & Health Equity LLC —Wilmington, DE
- $23 an hour
- Weekends as needed
- Psychiatry
- Addiction Medicine
- 5 years
- Opportunities for advancement
- Flexible schedule
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Certified Peer Support Specialist (Part Time Evenings)
AQUILA OF DE INC —Bear, DE
- Part-time
- High school diploma or GED
- Entry level
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Peer Recovery Specialist
The Affiliated Sante Group —Elkton, MD
- $20.50 - $24.00 an hour
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- Office
- High school diploma or GED
- Wellness program
- Flexible schedule
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Behavioral Health Technician
AQUILA OF DE INC —Bear, DE
- Part-time
- Microsoft Word
- CPR Certification
- Microsoft Excel
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Certified Recovery Specialist/Certified Peer Specialist
MVP RECOVERY —Chester, PA
- Full-time
- High school diploma or GED
- Bachelor's degree
- Communication skills
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
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Registered Behavior Technician (RBT)
Continuum Behavioral Health —Newark, DE
- From $20 an hour
- Part-time
- Experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities
- CPR Certification
- BLS Certification
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
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Certified Peer Recovery Specialist
Haven House Inc —Elkton, MD
- $20 an hour
- Part-time
- High school diploma or GED
- Driver's License
- Driving
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
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Peer Recovery Specialist
BRANDYWINE COUNSELING & COMMUNITY SERVICES INC —Wilmington, DE
- From $18 an hour
- Full-time
- Mid-level
- High school diploma or GED
- Driver's License
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
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Certified Peer Recovery Associate
ASHLEY, INC. —Havre de Grace, MD
- $21 - $24 an hour
- CPR Certification
- Clean driving record
- Microsoft Outlook
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Certified Peer Specialist Supervisor
AQUILA OF DE INC —Bear, DE
- Computer literacy
- Mid-level
- Bachelor's degree
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Certified Recovery Specialist - Chester County
MVP RECOVERY —Exton, PA
- Weekends as needed
- Mid-level
- Children
- Communication skills
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
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Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)
Austill's Educational Therapy Services —Aston, PA
- $55 - $65 an hour
- 8 hour shift
- Mid-level
- Driver's License
- Children
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SUBSTANCE ABUSE SPECIALIST
Apis Services Inc —Claymont, DE
- $24 an hour
- Weekends as needed
- Microsoft Word
- Clean driving record
- Microsoft Outlook
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Certified Recovery Specialist
THE LINCOLN CENTER FOR FAMILY AND YOUTH —Coatesville, PA
- Full-time
- Spanish
- English
- Mid-level
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Peer Support Specialist - Behavioral Health

Limen Recovery + Wellness -
Wilmington, DE

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Job Details

Full-time
From $20 an hour
1 day ago

Benefits

Health insurance
Dental insurance
Bereavement leave
Life insurance

Qualifications

Teamwork
Care documentation
Patient interaction

Full Job Description

The Peer Support Specialist provides recovery-oriented, person-centered support to individuals receiving treatment in an American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Level 3.7 behavioral health setting. Using personal lived experience with behavioral health and/or substance use recovery, the Peer Support Specialist promotes hope, engagement, safety, and recovery while supporting a structured, therapeutic environment.

A key responsibility of this position is to monitor the environment of care, patient belongings, and patient safety and to promptly communicate safety, behavioral, environmental, and clinical concerns to nursing, clinical, or supervisory staff.

The Peer Support Specialist performs duties within established organizational policies, procedures, applicable laws and regulations, and the limits of the individual’s training and authorization.

Scope of Practice

The Peer Support Specialist provides non-clinical peer and recovery support and does not independently perform nursing, medical, psychiatric, diagnostic, or other licensed clinical functions.

Patient searches, personal belongings inspections, and contraband procedures must be performed only when authorized by the organization’s policies and procedures and after the employee has received appropriate training. The Peer Support Specialist is responsible for observing, identifying, documenting, and reporting concerns and for immediately escalating clinical or safety concerns to the appropriate licensed or supervisory staff.

Primary Responsibilities

Environment of Care Monitoring

● Maintain ongoing awareness of the milieu and overall environment of care.

● Monitor common areas, patient areas, and assigned program spaces for safety, cleanliness, order, and appropriate therapeutic conditions.

● Conduct environmental rounds as assigned.

● Identify and report environmental hazards, maintenance concerns, sanitation issues, unsafe conditions, or safety concerns.

● Observe patient interactions and identify behaviors or situations that may affect safety or the therapeutic environment.

● Assist with maintaining a calm, respectful, recovery-focused environment.

● Monitor for prohibited items or potential contraband in accordance with facility policy.

● Promptly report safety concerns, behavioral changes, or potential violations of program rules to the appropriate staff member.

● Assist with maintaining a secure and therapeutic environment during periods of increased patient acuity.

Personal Belongings and Property

● Assist with the receipt, inventory, inspection, storage, and return of patient personal belongings in accordance with facility policy.

● Ensure patient belongings are appropriately documented upon admission, transfer, and discharge.

● Assist patients with securing personal property in designated storage areas.

● Monitor common areas and patient spaces for unattended, misplaced, or potentially unsafe belongings.

● Report missing, damages, unauthorized, or potentially hazardous items to the appropriate supervisor.

● Follow established procedures for identifying and securing prohibited or restricted items.

● Maintain accurate documentation and chain of custody for belongings or items removed from a patient’s possession when required by policy.

● Protect patient privacy and dignity while handling personal property.

● Never retain, discard, or remove a patient’s property except as authorized by facility policy and applicable procedures.

Patient Searches and Safety Checks

● Conduct or assist with patient searches and safety checks when specifically authorized by facility policy and within the employee’s training and scope of responsibility.

● Follow established procedures for admission searches, return-from-leave searches, searches based on reasonable safety concerns, and other authorized searches.

● Conduct searches in a manner that protects the patient’s privacy, dignity, safety, and rights.

● Explain the search procedure to the patient when appropriate and follow required consent and notification procedures.

● Use on approved search techniques and procedures taught by the organization.

● Never use excessive force or conduct a search in a manner that is humiliating, punitive, discriminatory, or inconsistent with facility procedure.

● Follow applicable requirements regarding staff gender, patient gender, privacy, same-gender searches, chaperones, and accommodations.

● Immediately notify nursing, clinical, or supervisory staff when prohibited items, suspected contraband, weapons, substances, medications, or other safety concerns are identified.

● Secure and document identified items according to facility policy and maintain appropriate chain of custody when required.

● Document completion of authorized searches and significant findings accurately and objectively.

● Escalate any refusal, confrontation, or safety concern associated with a search to the appropriate supervisor or licensed staff member.

● Do not independently make clinical determinations regarding intoxication, withdrawal, psychiatric status, or medical emergencies.

Peer Recovery Support

● Establish positive, respectful, and recovery-oriented relationships with patients.

● Used lived experience appropriately to promote hope, motivation, and engagement.

● Encourage participation in treatment, recovery activities, and structured programming.

● Provide non-clinical peer support to individuals experiencing substance use and/or behavioral health challenges.

● Model healthy coping strategies, communication, boundaries, and recovery behaviors.

● Assist with peer-led groups, recovery activities, wellness activities, and other programming as assigned.

● Promote patient dignity, autonomy, respect, and cultural sensitivity.

ASAM Level 3.7 Responsibilities

The Peer Support Specialist works as part of the interdisciplinary team supporting patients in a medically monitored intensive inpatient level of care.

Responsibilities include:

● Support a structured, safe, and recovery-oriented milieu.

● Monitoring the environment of care for safety and potential hazards.

● Supporting personal-belonging and contraband-control procedures.

● Conducting authorized patient searches in accordance with facility policy and training.

● Recognizing and promptly reporting changes in patient behavior or presentation.

● Supporting patients while they receive medically monitored treatment under the direction of licensed clinical staff.

● Reinforcing program expectations and recovery-focused behaviors.

● Promoting engagement in treatment and peer recovery activities.

● Supporting a therapeutic environment that is respectful, trauma-informed, and free from harassment, intimidation, and unsafe behavior.

● Escalating medical, psychiatric, behavioral, or safety concerns to nursing, clinical, or supervisory staff.

Qualifications

● Current Certified Peer Support Specialist certification.

● Behavioral health, psychiatric, addiction medicine, or substance use treatment experience preferred.

● Knowledge of ASAM criteria, DSAMH standards, medication administration, and trauma-informed care preferred.

● Strong communication, documentation, and teamwork skills.

Physical Requirements

● Ability to stand, walk, bend, reach, and assist with patient care activities as required.

● Ability to work in a structured environment with patients who may demonstrate emotional distress, impaired judgement, agitation, or behavioral dysregulation.

● Ability to work assigned shifts, including weekends, holidays, evenings, nights, or on-call responsibilities as applicable.

Pay: From $20.00 per hour

Benefits:

Bereavement leave
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance

Work Location: In person

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