Peer Recovery Specialist

Apis Services, Inc. is a leading provider of shared services to Inperium and its affiliate companies. We are committed to delivering exceptional support to our clients and strive to maintain a work environment that is inclusive and supportive.

We are seeking a highly motivated and empathetic Peer Recovery Specialist to join our team. As a Peer Recovery Specialist, you will play a vital role in providing peer support to individuals receiving services for mental health and/or substance use conditions. Your primary responsibility will be to provide support that is trauma-informed, based on three key principles: learning versus helping, relationship versus the individual, and hope and possibility versus fear.

• Provides transportation to consumers, as scheduled by program administrator.
• Uses lived experience with a mental illness, substance use, or co-occurring disorders to assist in supporting clients in their recovery path.
• Helps clients aspire to roles that emphasize their strengths by sharing their own personal story and providing mutual support, hope, reassurance, and advocacy.
• Provides peer support to clients regarding their symptoms and the effects of trauma and trauma history, and helps them develop positive coping skills.
• Engages clients through outreach and support.
• Promotes recovery through modeling their own personal story, self-confidence, achievements, and self-determination, and the use of natural supports.
• Provides training and education to other team members on recovery-oriented care, peer support resources, psychiatric advance directives, wellness tools, trauma-informed care, and the use of creativity and the arts to promote recovery.
• Attends interdisciplinary team meetings.
• Engages clients in different community activities and resources.
• Assists individuals in completing peer-related elements of the assessment and prepares them to attend their recovery plan meeting and express their goals and needs.
• Assists clients in accomplishing their life goals of living in their chosen housing and community, working, having a natural support system, and having hobbies and other leisure activities that are creative and fun.
• Helps clients and staff develop and implement person-centered treatment plans.

• High School Diploma or GED preferred.
• Experience working with underserved populations preferred.
• Excellent communication skills and organizational skills.
• Ability to work with clients with substance abuse, co-occurring, and/or mental health disorders.
• Excellent writing skills and record-keeping skills.

The estimated salary for this position is $45,000 - $55,000 per year, depending on experience. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), life and disability insurance, generous paid time off, paid training and career advancement, a great team environment, competitive wages, and a wellness program.

Apis Services, Inc. is a Delaware-based nonprofit organization that serves as one of the state's largest nonprofits. We collaborate with government, community, corporate, and philanthropic partners to maximize services for Delaware's most vulnerable citizens.