Certified Peer Support Specialist
Centerstone
Summary
The Certified Peer Support Specialist provides emotional and informational support to individuals receiving services through the Florida Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) program and their families. Drawing from lived experience, this role helps inspire hope, promote recovery, and support individuals in achieving their personal goals. The Peer Support Specialist assists clients in accessing community resources, developing positive social connections, and engaging in office-based and community-based recovery support services.
Job description
Summary of Position
The Certified Peer Support Specialist provides emotional and informational support to individuals receiving services through the Florida Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) program and their families. Drawing from lived experience, this role helps inspire hope, promote recovery, and support individuals in achieving their personal goals. The Peer Support Specialist assists clients in accessing community resources, developing positive social connections, and engaging in office-based and community-based recovery support services.
As a member of the multidisciplinary FACT team, this position delivers services primarily in a community-based setting. The Peer Support Specialist collaborates with community partners, local stakeholders, and treatment team members to ensure comprehensive, person-centered care and continuity of services. Through advocacy, education, mentoring, and peer support, this role empowers individuals to build independence, strengthen recovery, and improve overall quality of life.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Demonstrate cultural awareness and sensitivity in working with families from diverse backgrounds.
- Create and build connections with persons served to assist them in meeting their needs in order to become self-sufficient.
- Provide specialized case management and outreach services to individuals with perinatal mental health issues and substance use disorders.
- Assume responsibility for assessing persons served and family strengths, challenges, and needs. Collaborate and build connections with community partners.
- Assist and facilitate parent led support groups as well as parent leadership meetings.
- Help to engage parents through lived experience and support them in contributing to the CAN.
- Attend meetings promptly and actively participate in trainings, staff meetings, and clinical supervision.
- Complete documentation in a timely and accurate manner. Complete all other tasks assigned by Program Manager within given timeframes.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Stay familiar with and make use of the community and resources, both formal and informal within the community and accessing them first before looking to formal resources.
- Effectively communicate via written, verbal, in person and virtual methods.
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Must have time-management and multitasking skills necessary to perform a variety of duties concurrently.
- Speaking with and collecting information from clients and referral sources requires strong interpersonal skills, and attention to detail.
- Individuals should have knowledge of using various systems including: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and manage electronic health record systems.
Qualifications
High school diploma or GED required. Bilingual preferred.
CPRS Certification is required.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED required
- CPRS Certification is required
- Bilingual preferred
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Effective written and verbal communication
- Time-management and multitasking skills
- Attention to detail
- Knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel
- Experience with electronic health record systems
- Cultural awareness and sensitivity
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- Flexible Spending Account
- Health Savings Account
- 403(b) Retirement Plan
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- AD&D Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Long Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program
- Continuing Education
- Employee Resource Groups
Company overview
Centerstone is one of the nation's largest nonprofit behavioral healthcare organizations, providing comprehensive mental health and substance use disorder services across multiple states. Founded as a 501(c)(3) organization, Centerstone operates as a leading healthcare provider specializing in behavioral health treatment, addiction recovery, and crisis intervention services. The organization serves over 250,000 individuals annually through a network of facilities in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Centerstone offers a full continuum of care including outpatient therapy, inpatient treatment, residential services, crisis management, counseling, housing support, and specialized programs for veterans, children, and families. Following its historic merger with Brightli in 2025, the organization now employs more than 10,000 professionals including psychiatrists, psychologists, master's-level clinicians, social workers, and support staff. Centerstone's innovative approach includes the Centerstone Institute, which focuses on clinical research, evidence-based practice implementation, and quality improvement initiatives. The organization is recognized for its commitment to underserved populations and its development of the first known simulation training center for community-based behavioral health clinicians.