Certified Peer Recovery Specialist

Bayhealth-1; Dover (DE); On-site; USD 19,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

401(k) matching

Health insurance

Life insurance

On-site child care

Educational reimbursement

Dependent care FSAs

Voluntary benefits

Job summary

Bayhealth Medical Center in Dover, DE seeks a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist to join the Care Management and ED teams. The role leverages lived recovery experience to motivate patients and develop recovery plans within an interdisciplinary setting.

The position is full-time at the Kent Campus, offering benefits and opportunities for professional growth, with a shift that is variable and a salary of $21.00 per hour.

Qualifications

• Education: High School Diploma or GED.
• Credential: Certified Peer Recovery Specialist; Basic Life Support.
• Experience: 12 months working or volunteering in a peer recovery specialist role with 3 months of narrative report writing.

Responsibilities

• Work with Care Management, Behavioral Medicine, and ED teams to support substance-abusing populations.
• Provide peer support to engage individuals in a recovery partnership and identify recovery goals.
• Assist in developing a personalized crisis plan and recovery action plan.
• Maintain a caseload and prepare narrative reports as required.
• Promote self-advocacy by helping clients voice needs and goals.
• Help clients build connections with family, friends, and community resources.
• Advocate for services or resources to achieve clients' goals.
• Conduct routine follow-up to maintain contact with clients.
• Assist in SDOH and substance abuse screening and risk assessment.
• Perform other duties within scope as assigned.

Skills

Motivational Interviewing

Peer support

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Self-disclosure of lived recovery

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Certified Peer Recovery Specialist(Job Id 17506)

Location: US:DE:Dover

Post Date: 10/14/2026

Category: Allied Health / Clinical Support

Employment Type: Employee

Description

If you care about the opportunity to grow, to make a difference, to build a future and a life, then we just might have the career for you. Care to talk?

Bayhealth Medical Center is Central and Southern Delaware’s healthcare leader with hospitals in Dover and Milford, a s well as stand -alone Emergency Department in Smyrna and a hybrid E mergency Department and Urgent Care in Milton . We offer various practice settings throughout Kent and Sussex Counties. Bayhealth Medical Center Kent Campus is 90 minutes from Philadelphia, Washington, DC and Baltimore . Our Sussex Campus is 30 minutes to the Delaware beaches and relaxation in the sand!

Bayhealth Medical Center offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package (for eligible positions) including:

• Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Matching 401(k)/403(b) Plans
• Excellent Health, Dental, and Vision
• Disability and Life Insurance options
• On Site Child Care
• Educational Reimbursement
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flex Spending Accounts
• Plus, an array of Voluntary Benefits to include Critical Care Coverage and more!

Location: Kent Campus Hospital, Dover Delaware

Status: Full Time 80 Hours Biweekly

Shift: Variable

SALARY RANGE:Grant Funded Position - $21.00 / hour

General Summary:

The Certified Peer Recovery Specialist is a skilled and compassionate professional with lived experience. The Certified Peer Recovery Specialist will report to Care Management leadership and work within an interdisciplinary team, including Care Management, Behavioral Medicine, and our Emergency Department (ED) team members. This team member will utilize their own recovery experience and peer recovery training to enhance patient motivation and assist them in developing the skills and knowledge necessary for their recovery. The team member will also play a key role in improving the overall care of Bayhealth's substance abuse populations, supporting their journey toward recovery, and facilitating their successful transition back to the community. The team member will utilize Motivational Interviewing skills with a variety of patients and family members who present to the ED and on our inpatient medical floors with a substance abuse diagnosis or substance abuse-related illness. Part of the team member’s regular duties will also be to follow up with patients who are admitted to acute medicine (inpatient medical) floors from our ED or coordinate care with Behavioral Medicine team members.

Team member must be willing to self-disclose lived recovery experience for the purpose of modeling hope, personal responsibility, and self-advocacy to demonstrate how recovery goals can be respectfully met and how a belief in self is maintained.

Responsibilities:

• 1. As a part of the Community Transition and Recovery Team, work with Care Management, Behavioral Medicine, and our ED teams to provide support to Bayhealth’s substance-abusing populations.
• 2. Provides peer support to engage individuals in a recovery partnership and assists in identifying participants’ recovery goals and the solutions they are seeking.
• 3. Assist individuals with the development of a personalized crisis plan, recovery action plan, and person-centered treatment plan.
• 4. Maintain a caseload and prepare narrative reports as required.
• 5. Promote self-advocacy by assisting recovering persons to have their voices fully heard and have their needs, goals, and objectives established as the focal point of rehabilitation and clinical services.
• 6. Assist in developing and cultivating connectedness in the client’s life (to self, family, friends, clinical home, treatment services provider, community, and meaning and purpose).
• 7. As a part of the Community Transition and Recovery Team, advocates for the clients to identify services or resources to help the individuals achieve their goals.
• 8. Conducts routine follow-up engagement to maintain contact with clients.
• 9. Assist Behavioral Medicine, Care Management, and ED Teams in SDOH and substance abuse screening and risk assessment in the ED and on inpatient medical floors.
• 10. All other duties as assigned within the scope and range of job responsibilities.

Required Education, Credential(s) and Experience:

• Education:
• High School Diploma or GED
  ;
  ;
  
• Credential(s):
• Certified Peer Recovery Specialist
  Basic Life Support
  ;
  
  
• Experience: Required: Twelve (12) months of working or volunteering, under supervision, in a peer recovery specialist role with a minimum of 3 months of narrative report writing experience.

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