Certified Peer Recovery Specialist-PT Sat/Sun

About Hygea Healthcare

At Hygea Healthcare, we are committed to transforming lives by addressing substance use disorders with compassion, innovation, and inclusivity.

🌱 Our Mission
Our mission is to build an ecosystem of substance abuse treatment facilities that offer a full continuum of care—serving anyone in need, regardless of socioeconomic status or payer type. We deliver best-in-class, unbiased treatment, leveraging cutting-edge technologies and evidence-based practices to ensure the highest quality outcomes for every individual who walks through our doors.

🔭 Our Vision
We envision a future where every community has access to comprehensive addiction care. Through rigorous research and model validation, we aim to expand Hygea Healthcare's presence throughout Maryland and the Northeast, creating a seamless network of care that supports long-term recovery and community well-being.

💛 Our Core Values
Everything we do is guided by our five core values:

• Health – Prioritizing physical, mental, and emotional wellness

• Hope – Inspiring belief in recovery and brighter tomorrows

• Happiness – Creating environments that foster joy and purpose

• Humility – Serving with respect, empathy, and a learner’s mindset

• Humor – Embracing lightness and human connection along the journey

At Hygea, we don’t just treat addiction—we support healing, restore dignity, and empower lives.

The Peer Recovery Specialist’s role is to support others in recovery from a substance use disorder. The Recovery Specialist will serve as a role model, mentor, advocate and motivator to recovering individuals in order to help prevent relapse and promote long-term recovery. The Recovery Specialist must demonstrate an ability to share personal recovery experiences and to develop authentic peer-to-peer relationships. This is a Part-Time opportunity

Essential Job Functions

• Provide recovery education to clients for every phase of the recovery journey from pre-recovery engagement, recovery initiation, recovery stabilization, and sustained recovery maintenance.
• Provide a model for both people in recovery and staff by demonstrating that recovery is possible.
• Assist recovering persons to identify their personal interests, goals, strengths and opportunities regarding recovery.
• Recovery Planning -- facilitate (via personal coaching) the transition from a professionally directed service plan to a self-directed Recovery Plan. The goal should be to transition from professionally assisted recovery initiation to personally directed, community supported recovery maintenance.
• Promote self advocacy by assisting recovering persons to have their voices fully heard; their needs, goals and objectives established as the focal point of rehabilitation and clinical services.
• Develop relationships with community groups/agencies in partnership with others in the agency.
• Identify barriers (internal and external) to full participation in community resources and developing strategies to overcome those barriers.
• Maintain contact by phone and/or e-mail with recovering person after they leave the program to insure their ongoing success and to provide re-engagement support in partnership with others in the agency if needed. Long-term engagement, support, and encouragement.
• Document within required guidelines all contacts with individuals in their clinical record.
• Develop, implement, and promote ongoing community training opportunities.
• Other duties as directed.

Education and Experience

• High School Diploma or GED
• Must have 2 or mor