Addiction Recovery Recovery Coach - Certified Peer Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

Certified Peer Recovery Specialist (Women’s Residential)

Location: Flowery Branch, GA

Organization: Lightway Addiction Recovery Wellness Center for Women

Type: [Full-Time/Part-Time]

About Lightway Recovery

Lightway is a nonprofit, Christ-centered residential recovery environment where women are treated with dignity and respect. We focus on healing the body, mind, and spirit, providing women with the tools to build a foundation for lifelong recovery.

Role Overview

We are seeking a compassionate, resilient, and professionally-minded individual to join our team as a Recovery Coach. In this role, you will use your lived experience to mentor women in early recovery. You will serve as a one on one support to residents, modeling what long-term, stable recovery looks like in daily life.

Key Responsibilities

• Mentorship: Provide one-on-one peer support and group facilitation for women in various phases of residential care.
• Goal Setting: Assist residents in creating and implementing individualized Recovery plans.
• Advocacy: Act as a peer advocate within the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the resident’s voice is heard.
• Resource Connection: Help residents navigate community resources, housing, and employment opportunities.
• Modeling: Demonstrate healthy coping skills, boundaries, and a "wellness-first" lifestyle.
• Assist with teaching, life skills training and other operational duties as required.

Qualifications (The "Must-Haves")

• Lived Experience: Must be a person in stable, sustained recovery from a substance use disorder.
• Desire to grow professionally and personally and impact individuals, families and communities.
• Embrace the understanding that addiction and recovery impact body, mind and spirit and that life-long recovery is possible.
• The 2-Year Standard: Per our center’s safety and mentorship standards, candidates must have at least 2 years of continuous, documented recovery/sobriety.
• Certification: Must hold a Georgia CARES (Certified Addiction Recovery Empowerment Specialist) or a comparable CPS (Certified Peer Specialist) certification (or be eligible to obtain it within 6 months).
• Education: High School Diploma or GED required.
• Character: Ability to align with and represent the Christ-centered mission and values of Lightway Recovery and embody the core values of Navigate Recovery.

Company Description

OUR VISION: is a community that treats addiction as a chronic condition and those affected with dignity and respect.

OUR MISSION is to serve individuals and families impacted by addiction, connecting them to the resources they need and removing barriers that prevent them from getting and staying well.

Lightway Addiction Recovery Wellness Center for Women is a safe, supportive recovery environment where women are treated with dignity and respect, experience the love of Christ, and the healing of body, mind, and spirit while gaining the tools to build and maintain lifelong recovery.

Company Description

OUR VISION: is a community that treats addiction as a chronic condition and those affected with dignity and respect.\r\n\r\nOUR MISSION is to serve individuals and families impacted by addiction, connecting them to the resources they need and removing barriers that prevent them from getting and staying well.\r\n\r\nLightway Addiction Recovery Wellness Center for Women is a safe, supportive recovery environment where women are treated with dignity and respect, experience the love of Christ, and the healing of body, mind, and spirit while gaining the tools to build and maintain lifelong recovery.