Peer Recovery Support Specialist

Certified Peer Recovery Support Worker (CRSW)

Paugus Bay Behavioral Health – Laconia, NH
Outpatient Program

If you love helping people, believe in second chances, and want to work with a team that genuinely gets it… keep reading.

Paugus Bay Behavioral Health is growing our outpatient services in Laconia, and we’re looking for a passionate Certified Peer Recovery Support Worker (CRSW) to join our care team. This is a role where your lived experience is not just valued — it’s essential.

Here, we don’t do stuffy. We do mission-driven, team-centered, and client-first. We do real conversations, real connection, and real recovery support.

💛 What You’ll Do (and Why It Matters)

Be the steady, encouraging voice someone needs today.

• Meet one-on-one with IOP/OP clients, offering mentorship grounded in lived experience.
• Help each person identify strengths, build recovery capital, and navigate life’s curveballs.

Guide people toward the resources they didn’t know they had.

• Connect clients with mutual aid groups, community resources, and local supports.
• Coach through relapse prevention, coping strategies, and wellness tools.

Run groups that feel safe, supportive, and judgment-free.

• Co-facilitate groups focused on recovery skills, life management, and building resiliency.
• Bring your personality, humor, compassion, and steadiness into the room.

Support the whole-care team.

• Collaborate with clinicians, medical staff, and case managers to keep clients engaged and supported.
• Assist with care coordination when clients need extra help navigating housing, jobs, transportation, or next steps.

Document like a pro (but without losing your style).

• Complete timely, accurate, confidential notes that meet HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, and Joint Commission standards.
• Document peer encounters, groups, follow-ups, referrals, and client progress.

Keep growing.

• Maintain CRSW supervision and CEUs.
• Be open to trainings that make you even more effective — motivational interviewing, trauma-informed care, crisis awareness, etc.

🌱 Who Thrives in This Role

Someone who is:

• Compassionate and grounded in their own recovery.
• Great with people, even on their tough days.
• A natural encourager, but also boundary-strong.
• Comfortable leading groups, sharing experiences appropriately, and modeling wellness.
• Organized enough to document care accurately and consistently.
• A team player who believes recovery is a community effort.

📚 What You Bring

• Active CRSW OR eligible and working toward it.
• Stable personal recovery and commitment to ongoing wellness.
• Understanding of harm reduction, multiple pathways to recovery, and trauma-informed care.
• Strong communication skills — both spoken and written.
• Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation.
• High school diploma or GED.
• First Aid/CPR within 30 days of hire.
• Bonus points for additional training (MI, relapse prevention, co-occurring, group work).

🔎 A Few Logistics

• Outpatient behavioral health setting
• Light physical activity
• Regular client interaction, group facilitation, and documentation
• Team communication via in-person, phone, email, and telehealth

💵 Compensation

The base compensation range for this position is $18.00–$24.00 per hour.
This range reflects Ascension Recovery Services’ good faith estimate at the time of this posting. Placement within the range will be based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to skills, experience, qualifications, location, and internal equity.

🌈 Equal Opportunity Employer

Paugus Bay Behavioral Health is committed to diversity, inclusion, and hiring compassionate humans from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants are welcome — period.

Salary : $18 - $24