Peer Support Specialist for Tenancy & Community Living

ICES: Data, Discovery, Better Health; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 20,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Exhale Integrative Services, LLC is seeking a Peer Support Specialist to deliver housing-focused support within Permanent Supportive Housing and Transition to Community Living programs. You will collaborate with therapists, provide WRAP-based counseling, and help clients maintain independent living in the community.

Work includes home visits, after-hours availability, and participation in CST teams. The role emphasizes tenancy support, social connection, and person-centered planning in diverse

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Must hold NC Certification for Peer Support Specialists.
• Spanish language fluency preferred but not required.
• Demonstrated cultural competence and sensitivity to diverse populations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, and personal laptop.
• Ability to work some evenings and spend majority of time in clients’ homes or community locations.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with the client’s therapists to determine status and response to treatment; symptom assessment and management.
• Provide individual supportive counseling using the WRAP model.
• Assists and supports activities-of-daily-living, social, interpersonal relationships, and leisure-time-activity services.
• Provides highly individualized services in the community and promotes individual self-determination and decision-making.
• Collaborates with therapists and medical providers to promote a culture in which each individual’s point of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected and integrated into treatment, rehabilitation, and community self-help activities.
• Works a non-traditional schedule and make themselves available as needed to meet with clients as frequently as needed and at times convenient to them, be available after-hours and go to clients’ homes quickly after hours as needed in crises. Also, available to clients 24/7 in the event of a crisis
• Complete Community Engagement events to engage client into services.
• Demonstrate fidelity to the CST Model as measured by internal and external quality audits.
• Attend and actively participate in weekly CST team meetings.

Job description

Exhale Integrative Services, LLC is seeking a Peer Support Specialist to deliver housing-focused support within Permanent Supportive Housing and Transition to Community Living programs. You will collaborate with therapists, provide WRAP-based counseling, and help clients maintain independent living in the community.

Work includes home visits, after-hours availability, and participation in CST teams. The role emphasizes tenancy support, social connection, and person-centered planning in diverse