Peer Support Specialist
Peer Support Specialists strive to empower individuals to achieve their hopes, dreams, and goals, and connect them with their personal recovery journey. A Peer SupportSpecialist is a person who has walked the path of recovery from mental illness and is employed to assist others in their journeys of recovery.
Peer Support Specialist Duties and Responsibilities
In order to provide support to patients based on personal experience, a Peer Support Specialist performs many different tasks.
Certified Peer Support Specialist
Job Summary
Provides peer-based recovery support services to individuals with mental health and/or substance use challenges. Drawing on their lived experience of recovery, the Peer Support Specialist builds trust with peers, supports them in identifying their strengths and goals, and helps them navigate recovery resources. This position requires a deep understanding of peer support values, ethics, and boundaries, with an emphasis on person-centered care, recovery-oriented strategies, and crisis intervention.
Certified Peer Support Specialist
We are a CARF accredited, non-profit, behavioral health agency serving all 100 counties in NC and have immediate openings for Certified Peer Support Specialists to join our team, specifically in Orange, Durham & Chatham counties.
Chapel Hill, NC; Durham, NC; Siler City, NC & Pittsboro, NC
Horton, Benjamin
Benji Horton is currently serving as the Director of Outreach for Veterans Services of the Carolinas and lives in Eastern NC. He previously held the role of Peer Support Specialist in the same region, but now leads our HOPE, PATH, and TCL Community Inclusion programs.