Registered Peer Supervisor

Baltimore County; Towson (MD); On-site; USD 48,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Baltimore County is seeking a Peer Recovery Specialist for a grant-funded role in the Department of Corrections. You will build trusted relationships, maintain confidentiality, and support peers’ recovery plans while ensuring ethical boundaries and professional collaboration.

The role requires CRPS certification, knowledge of recovery resources, and ability to work across programming and community partners within diverse environments.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of treatment programs and community resources that support recovery from addictive disease and co-occurring disorders.
• Knowledge of Spanish language a plus.
• Knowledge of and sensitivity to cultural influences.
• Skill in communicating with peers, their families and professional service providers.
• Skill in time management and self-care.
• Ability to work effectively with individuals in need, and the professional staff of service provider agencies, courts, hospitals, and residential and correctional facilities.
• Ability to accept multiple pathways to recovery, including medication-assisted treatments, and the appropriate use of psycho pharmacological treatments for mental health diagnoses.
• Ability to work in a variety of environments.

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 thepeople 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.

Skills

Treatment programs knowledge

Spanish language (bonus)

Cultural sensitivity

Communication with peers and families

Time management and self-care

Interagency collaboration

Understanding MAT and psychosocials

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Peer Recovery Specialist certification

Registered Peer Supervisor certification

Job description

Regular Schedule: 34 hours per week.

A Non-Merit grant funded vacancy exists in the Department of Corrections. Non-Merit positions are not classified within the Baltimore County Government Classification and Compensation Plan. A list of eligible applicants will be established based on the examination as outlined below. Current and future vacancies occurring within this class may be filled from the list of eligible applicants.

List all promotions and changes in job duties due to reclassification as separate work experience on your application. Applicants must include the dates of the promotions and reclassifications.

NOTE: Failure to complete all fields of the "Work Experience" section of the application will result in your application not being considered. A resume will not be considered in determining your qualifications for a position. Applicants selected for an interview may provide a resume at that time.

You MUST attach your transcript(s)/degree(s) and/or license(s)/certification(s) to your application. Unofficial copies are acceptable.

Failure to submit proof of License(s), Certification(s), and Education will result in your application not being considered. Proof of license(s), certification(s), and/or education must be submitted with each application.

• 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 thepeople 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.

Examples of Other Duties

• Supervisors may be expected to carry a caseload of MAT participants.
• Performs other related duties as required.

(NOTE: The duties and responsibilities listed above are for the purpose of determining a common set of minimum qualifications for all positions in this class. They may not include all of the essential job functions of each position in the class. Each position may not be required to perform all of the essential job functions listed.)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of treatment programs and community resources that support recovery from addictive disease and co-occurring disorders.
• Knowledge of Spanish Language a plus.
• Knowledge of and sensitivity to cultural influences.
• Skill in communicating with peers, their families and professional service providers.
• Skill in time management and self-care.
• Ability to work effectively with individuals in need, and the professional staff of service provider agencies, courts, hospitals, and residential and correctional facilities.
• Ability to accept multiple pathways to recovery, including medication-assisted treatments, and the appropriate use of psycho pharmacological treatments for mental health diagnoses.
• Ability to work in a variety of environments.

Possession of a high school diploma or appropriate equivalent.

Plus

Three years' lived experience of recovery, from which the applicant him/herself has maintained uninterrupted abstinence from a substance use disorder such as alcohol or drug addiction.

Plus

Certification as a Peer Recovery Specialist.

Plus

Certification as a Registered Peer Supervisor.

Licenses and Certificates

Certification as a PeerRecovery Specialist and Registered Peer Supervisoris required at the time of application.

Proof of Certifications

Applicants are required to submit proof ofPeer Recovery Specialist and Registered Peer Supervisor Certifications for this position.

Failure to submit proof of Certificationswillresult in your application not being considered.

EXAMINATION PROCEDURE

Applicants will be qualified based on an evaluation of their training and experience, as stated on their application, which includes answers to the supplemental questions. Be sure to state the dates, duties and responsibilities of past and present experience clearly and completely for evaluation purposes.

Medical Examination and Employment Background Investigation

Applicants selected for employment with Baltimore County must successfully complete a physical examination, drug screening and employment investigation, including, but not limited to criminal background, education certification and fingerprinting checks.

Please Note:

This position is Grant-Funded.