# Job Position
**Position:** Peer Recovery Specialist (or Peer Advocate) - Housing

**Company:** Health Care for the Homeless

**Location:** Baltimore, MD

**Work Type:** Full-time

**Experience Level:** Entry level

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## Job Description

Overview

The Peer Recovery Specialist provides a relationship to vulnerable persons that can help keep an unmotivated or poorly organized client connected to services and maintain housing placements. The approach in peer recovery has key differences to the approach taken by a treatment provider. The Peer Recovery Specialist has responsibility for integrating the lived experience into clients’ treatment goals and services by practicing a strengths-based and harm reduction approach to recovery and wellness.

Key Role Responsibilities

Through service provision and regularly scheduled visits, build relationships that models wellness and recovery with assigned clients that results in improved engagement with services.With supervisory guidance, use motivational and coaching strategies to help