Certified Peer Recovery Supervisor

Baltimore County; Towson (MD); On-site; USD 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Life Insurance

Paid Leave

Retirement plan

Job summary

Baltimore County is seeking a Peer Recovery Specialist for the Department of Corrections to provide mentoring, mental health support, and linkage to re-entry services. The role requires CRPS certification and, ideally, Registered Peer Supervisor certification within one year.

Expect a focus on confidentiality, ethical boundaries, and data-driven improvement. Current and future vacancies may be filled from an eligible list; a valid driver's license is required and security clearance is needed for

Qualifications

• Possession of a high school diploma or appropriate equivalent.
• Certification as a Peer Recovery Specialist.
• Certification as a Registered Peer Supervisor, or ability to achieve the certification within one year of hire.
• Certification as a Peer Recovery Specialist and Registered Peer Supervisor is required at the time of application.

Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains a trusting professional relationship with the recovery specialist under the supervision that helps the peer recovery specialist meet job performance goals.
• Models ethical boundaries between peer and supervisor to ensure ethical boundaries between peer support staff and program participants is maintained.
• Maintains appropriate confidentiality of information disclosed during supervision that meets legal and professional requirements in order assure appropriate and successful supervisor-to-supervisee relationships.
• Evaluates and provides feedback of peer recovery specialist's job performance in various settings (e.g. with the people they serve, team members and other agencies) using a variety of techniques including observation, reviews of progress notes, and discussions with people served), in order ensure that Peer Recovery Specialists are helping people served meet their goals, interacting in a peer-to-peer fashion, and working within the Peer Recovery Specialist scope of practice.
• Understands and supports core values of peer support building and maintaining effective working relationships with peer recovery specialists who acknowledge their role and experience, while maintaining the expectations of the workplace.
• Establishes professional relationships based on mutual respect and recovery principles and ideals that promote environments in which peer recovery specialists' efforts self-monitor and take care of their own wellness are supported and encouraged, understanding that the recovery and growth process is not linear.
• Assists the program manager and the administrative team in collection of data and will provide ongoing input and feedback on outcome measures.
• Completes all required training to maintain Certification as a Peer Recovery Specialist (CRPS).
• Works with peers to develop a recovery plan to provide peer mentoring services, mental health services, linkage to re-entry services and facilitation of contacts with the recovery community.
• Empowers the peers to be self-advocates for their own recovery pathway.
• Supervisors may be expected to carry a caseload of MAT participants.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Skills

Peer recovery

Ethical boundaries

Confidentiality

Communication with peers

Time management

Spanish language

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Baltimore County is seeking a Peer Recovery Specialist for the Department of Corrections to provide mentoring, mental health support, and linkage to re-entry services. The role requires CRPS certification and, ideally, Registered Peer Supervisor certification within one year.

Expect a focus on confidentiality, ethical boundaries, and data-driven improvement. Current and future vacancies may be filled from an eligible list; a valid driver's license is required and security clearance is needed for