Community Support Team Certified Peer Support Specialist - Duplin County

Liasions Community Care LLC; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 38,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Liaisons Community Care LLC seeks a North Carolina Certified Peer Support Specialist to join a Community Support Team serving adults in Duplin County. The CPSS will use lived recovery experience professionally to promote self-direction, wellness, resilience, advocacy, and community participation in recovery.

Responsibilities include active CST participation, recovery coaching, goal setting, resource connection, documentation, and crisis support within scope.

Qualifications

• At least one year of experience with mental health or substance use disorders.
• Ability to travel within the service area.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and professional boundaries.
• Valid North Carolina driver’s license and reliable transportation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an active CST member, participate in team meetings, and contribute to person-centered planning.
• Use lived recovery experience ethically and professionally to model recovery and resilience.
• Help consumers take an active role in recovery, self-determination, decision-making, and self-advocacy.
• Support consumers in identifying strengths, setting goals, building natural supports, and connecting with community resources.
• Provide recovery education, skill-building, and support per the person-centered plan.
• Assist with relapse-prevention strategies, disease management, and crisis interventions within training and scope.
• Communicate consumer progress and intervention outcomes to the Team Lead.
• Work with the team to support housing stability, daily living skills, community integration, education, and employment readiness.
• Participate in flexible community-based service delivery and crisis-response coverage.
• Complete accurate, Medicaid-compliant documentation.

Skills

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Communication skills

Education

NCCPSS certification

Job description

Position Summary

Liaisons Community Care is seeking a North Carolina Certified Peer Support Specialist to join a Community Support Team serving adults in Duplin County. Using lived recovery experience appropriately and professionally, the CPSS helps consumers strengthen self-direction, wellness, resilience, advocacy, community connection, and meaningful participation in recovery.

• Serve as an active CST member, participate in team meetings, and contribute to personcentered planning.
• Use lived experience purposefully and within professional boundaries to model recovery, wellness, hope, and resilience.
• Help consumers take an active role in recovery, selfdetermination, decisionmaking, and selfadvocacy.
• Support consumers in identifying strengths, setting goals, building natural supports, and connecting with community resources.
• Provide recovery education, skill building, and support consistent with the personcentered plan.
• Assist with relapseprevention strategies, disease management, and crisis interventions within training and scope.
• Communicate consumer progress and the effectiveness of interventions to the Team Lead.
• Work with the team to support housing stability, daily living skills, community integration, education, and employment readiness.
• Participate in flexible communitybased service delivery and assigned crisisresponse coverage.

Position Summary

Liaisons Community Care is seeking a North Carolina Certified Peer Support Specialist to join a Community Support Team serving adults in Duplin County. Using lived recovery experience appropriately and professionally, the CPSS helps consumers strengthen self-direction, wellness, resilience, advocacy, community connection, and meaningful participation in recovery.

Essential Responsibilities

• Serve as an active CST member, participate in team meetings, and contribute to personcentered planning.
• Use lived experience purposefully and within professional boundaries to model recovery, wellness, hope, and resilience.
• Help consumers take an active role in recovery, selfdetermination, decisionmaking, and selfadvocacy.
• Support consumers in identifying strengths, setting goals, building natural supports, and connecting with community resources.
• Provide recovery education, skill building, and support consistent with the personcentered plan.
• Assist with relapseprevention strategies, disease management, and crisis interventions within training and scope.
• Communicate consumer progress and the effectiveness of interventions to the Team Lead.
• Work with the team to support housing stability, daily living skills, community integration, education, and employment readiness.
• Participate in flexible communitybased service delivery and assigned crisisresponse coverage.
• Complete accurate, timely, Medicaidcompliant documentation.

Required Qualifications

• Current North Carolina Certified Peer Support Specialist NCCPSS certification in good standing.
• At least one year of experience working with individuals with mental health or substance use disorders, as required for CST team members.
• Ability to use lived recovery experience ethically, maintain boundaries, protect confidentiality, and work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Knowledge, skills, and abilities appropriate to the adult population served.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior CST, ACT, peer support, housingsupport, or communitybased behavioral health experience.
• Training in crisis intervention, motivational interviewing, wellness recovery planning, or substance use recovery support.
• Familiarity with Duplin Countyarea resources.

Schedule and Availability

This position is scheduled according to consumer needs and team coverage requirements. Candidates must be able to work a flexible schedule and participate in the team’s assigned crisis-response and on-call rotation. Individual employees are not expected to remain continuously available; coverage is coordinated across the CST.

General Employment Requirements

• Valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, and ability to travel throughout the assigned service area.
• Ability to complete required background, health, credentialing, and payer enrollment checks.Ability to maintain timely, accurate, and Medicaidcompliant documentation in the electronic health record.
• Ability to work collaboratively with adults who have complex mental health, substance use, housing, medical, safety, vocational, and legal needs.
• Completion of all CST model, crisisresponse, evidencebased practice, and agencyrequired training within established timeframes.

About the Service

Community Support Team is an intensive, community-based service for adults with mental health, substance use, or co-occurring disorders and complex treatment needs. The team provides treatment, rehabilitation, intensive case management, service coordination, skill building, crisis intervention, and support for successful community living.

We are seeking dedicated and compassionate behavioral health professionals to serve individuals and families throughout Duplin County and surrounding communities, including Kenansville, Warsaw, Wallace, Rose Hill, Beulaville, Magnolia, Faison, Calypso, Greenevers, Teachey, Chinquapin, Albertson, and nearby areas.

Applicants must be willing and able to regularly travel throughout Duplin County and surrounding communities to provide community-based behavioral health services. Candidates should have reliable transportation and the flexibility to serve individuals and families across the designated service area.

Please note: This position requires consistent in-person service delivery within the identified geographic area.