Peer Recovery Support Specialist: Meaningful Impact + Flexible Fridays

Heritage Behavioral Health Center; Decatur (IL); On-site; USD 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement options

Tuition assistance

Flexible Spending Accounts

EAP

Job summary

Heritage Behavioral Health Center in Decatur, Illinois, is hiring Recovery Support Specialists to join our Community Support team in Macon County. If you have lived experience with mental health or substance use recovery, you bring unique insight to help others on their path to recovery and engagement with services.

As a full-time role, you’ll work Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with every other Friday off paid.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED
• Lived experience with mental health and/or substance use recovery
• Strong communication skills and ability to build trusting relationships
• Will obtain CRSS certification within 12 months with company support
• Valid driver's license, reliable transportation, and proof of automobile insurance

Responsibilities

• Advocate for customers in recovery
• Provide strengths-based coaching
• Offer emotional support and mentoring
• Support engagement in treatment services
• Connect customers to community resources
• Help customers identify and build natural supports
• Teach and coach on skills development
• Help customers and families navigate behavioral health and community systems
• Educate customers and their families about mental health and substance use conditions and the recovery process
• Promote customer- and family-driven practices
• Work alongside Community Support Specialists and the wider care team

Skills

Lived experience

Strong communication

Certification within 12 months

Driver's license

Job description

Heritage Behavioral Health Center in Decatur, Illinois, is hiring Recovery Support Specialists to join our Community Support team in Macon County. If you have lived experience with mental health or substance use recovery, you bring unique insight to help others on their path to recovery and engagement with services.

As a full-time role, you’ll work Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with every other Friday off paid.