Peer Recovery Supporter

Job Description

Job Description

Are you passionate about making a difference in your community? Are you looking to build a fulfilling career in Public Health? Join Summit County Public Health! Summit County Public Health is seeking a Peer Recovery Supporter to work full-time (35 hours per week) , Monday through Friday, in our Harm Reduction program.

The Peer Recovery Supporter offers peer-based support to individuals in recovery, empowering them to make healthier choices and maintain long-term wellness. It connects clients with health care, social services, and community resources, while also providing harm reduction services such as syringe exchange, naloxone distribution, and overdose education. This position actively engages in community outreach to promote public health and support recovery across the community.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide strengths-based, peer-to-peer support to individuals in recovery to promote healthy choices and long-term wellness.
• Connect clients to health care, social services, and community resources.
• Serve as a mentor, advocate, and role model to clients to help prevent relapse and promote long-term recovery.
• Conduct harm reduction services, including syringe exchange, naloxone distribution, and overdose education in-office and in the community.
• Participate in Quick Response Team (QRT) outreach activities with community partners.
• Maintain accurate project logs, reports, and client data in required systems.
• Manage inventory of harm reduction supplies.
• Build effective working relationships with colleagues, community agencies, and the public.
• Represent Summit County Public Health professionally at community events.
• Utilize Google and Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Google Workspace, etc)
• Follow all regulations, policies, and emergency response requirements, including availability for 24/7 emergency service when needed.

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• 2-3 years volunteer or paid experience in a peer recovery support position
• Certification as a Peer Recovery Supporter
• Valid driver's license, liability insurance, automobile available.

Summit County Public Health (SCPH) is committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our human capital is the most valuable asset we have. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of not only our culture, but our reputation and organization's achievement as well. We embrace and encourage our employees' differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.