Peer Support Specialist

Join the Vital Core Team in Delaware! We’re people who are fueled by passion, not by profit. Vital Core Health Strategies, (VCHS), an industry leader in correctional healthcare, has an opening for a Peer Support Specialist at Sussex Correctional Institution in Georgetown, DE! Looking for a rewarding career with competitive wages, annual incentive bonus, and excellent benefits package? At Vital Core we pride ourselves on retaining and acquiring hardworking ethical individuals who are committed to providing quality services.

Join our team and experience first‑hand how Vital Core Health Strategies promotes a positive work environment that is based on respect and appreciation of the hard work and dedication of our staff.

• Holiday Pay:
  New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Life Insurance
• Short Term/Long Term Disability
• Identity Theft Protection
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program and Discount Center
• 401K & Plan Matching
• PTO

The Peer Support Specialist (PSS) is an active member of the Behavioral Health Acute and Residential Program and provides peer support services to clients with serious behavioral illnesses. The Peer Support Specialist will function as a role model to peers, exhibiting competency in personal recovery and use of coping skills; and serve as a consumer advocate, providing consumer information and peer support for clients in outpatient and inpatient settings.

The PSS performs a wide range of tasks to assist individuals in regaining independence within the general population and mastery over their own recovery process. Recovery resources such as booklets, tapes, pamphlets and other written materials may be utilized by the Peer Support Specialist in the provision of services.

• Assist clients in articulating personal goals for recovery through the use of one-to-one and group sessions.
• During these sessions, the PSS will support clients in identifying and creating goals and developing recovery plans with the skills, strengths, support, and resources to aid them in achieving those goals.
• Assist clients in working with their Qualified Behavioral Health Professional and treatment team in determining the steps they need to take in order to achieve their goals and self-directed recovery.
• Utilize tools such as the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) to assist clients in creating their own individual wellness and recovery plans.
• With assistance from the treatment team members, utilize and teach problem solving techniques with individuals and groups; discussions will be utilized where clients will share common problems in daily living and methods they have employed to manage and cope with these problems.
• As one who has availed themselves to Behavioral Health services, the PSS will share their own experiences and the skills, strengths, support, and resources they use.
• As much as possible, the PSS will share their own recovery story and as the facilitator of these sessions, will demonstrate how they have directed their own recovery.
• Support clients’ vocational choices and assist them in choosing a job that matches their strengths, overcoming job-related anxiety by reviewing job applications, and providing interview tips.
• Assist clients in building social skills in the general population that will enhance job acquisition and tenure.
• Teach and model the value of every individual’s recovery experience.
• As release ensues, assist the client in obtaining decent and affordable housing of their choice in the most integrated, independent, and least intrusive or restrictive environment by showing them how to work with community agencies who can aid in the transition.
• The PSS models effective coping techniques and self‑help strategies.
• Serve as a recovery agent by providing and advocating for any effective recovery‑based services that will aid the client in daily living.
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