Peer Support Specialist I

HOPE Arizona; Tucson (AZ); Hybrid; USD 33,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

HOPE Arizona is seeking a Peer Support Specialist to assist members in their recovery journey, offering coaching, mentorship, and hands-on support within the center. Role emphasizes advocacy, resource navigation, and collaboration with the outpatient team.

You will guide peers in daily living skills, coordinate transportation, and help maintain a clean, safe center environment. Certification and CPR/First Aid are required.

Qualifications

• Must identify as an individual with lived experience with mental health and/or substance use disorder.
• Graduation from Peer Support certification.
• High School Diploma or GED.
• Must be 21 years of age.
• Valid Arizona Driver’s license with clean MVR - no more than 2 moving violations in 3 years.
• Current 1st Aid and CPR certification.
• TB test results negative within the last year.

Responsibilities

• Relate members' recovery through coaching, role modeling and mentoring.
• Assist members with shower and laundry facilities as needed.
• Provide support with basic living skills (meal prep, budgeting, home organization).
• Transport members to appointments using an agency vehicle.
• Advocate for members to ensure delivery of necessary services.
• Complete documentation for behavioral health records per requirements.

Skills

Lived experience

Driver's license

Willingness to learn

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Peer Support Certification

Job description

Description

• Relates own recovery process in a positive and supportive manner through coaching, role modeling and mentoring in order to establish or strengthen member’s recovery.
• Assists members at the center with operating shower and laundry facilities as needed.
• Provides support to members with basic living skills such as meal prep, and assistance with shower and laundry facilities as needed.
• Transports members to and from appointments using an agency vehicle, as appropriate.
• Provides instruction in activities of daily living (nutrition, meal planning, shopping, and meal preparation; budgeting; home cleaning and organization; personal grooming and laundry).
• Advocates for members, as needed, to ensure delivery of necessary services.
• Works with member to navigate and use community resources in an effective manner.
• Acts as liaison between the member and the rest of the outpatient team.
• Completes documentation for behavioral health record in accordance with agency and funding source requirements.
• Supports Peer Recovery Support Specialists and Peer Navigators by preparing group materials, organizing curriculum, tracking member outreach attempts, and documenting interactions with members during groups.
• Shadows PRSS staff to learn the functions of a peer in a recovery center.
• Aids peer staff during openings and closing of the center, as well as during lunch.
• Provides overall support to the site through member care, front desk support, and kitchen and facilities functions including basic cleaning to ensure a safe, clean environment at the site.

Requirements

• At least 21 years of age
• High School/GED and
• Graduation from Peer Support certification.
• Must identify as an individual with lived experience with mental health and/or substance use disorder, who has been successful in their recovery for the purpose of guiding others.
• Demonstrate strong work ethic and willingness to learn new skills.
• Valid Arizona Driver’s license, Driver’s license is an essential requirement for performing duties for this position with a Clean Motor Vehicle Record - no more than 2 moving violations or a license suspension in past 3 years.
• Current 1st Aid and CPR certification
• Proof of negative TB test results within the last year