Peer Placement Specialist

Job Description

Overview Location: REMOTE in/around Fort Myers, FL This role is mobile and flexible, allowing deployment to hospitals, emergency departments, community agencies, partner programs, and other high-need locations to support referral pathways and ensure timely access to treatment. PURPOSE STATEMENT: The Peer Placement Specialist (PPS) is a field-based role designed to provide real-time, community-facing support for patient engagement, referral coordination, and warm handoffs into appropriate levels of care. The PPS uses lived experience, rapport-building, and collaborative problem-solving to assist individuals with navigating substance use disorder (SUD) or behavioral health challenges. These talented individuals strive to bring hope and guidance to those struggling with these diagnosis by collaborating with other professionals in the mental health and addictions community and through liaising with family members to find individualized levels of care within their local, regional and national system of providers. Treatment Placement Specialists collaborate with their client’s treatment team internally and externally to provide comprehensive care coordination including regular communications, while acting as an internal liaison to foster and enhance the experience and outcomes for their clients. The PPS research, uncover, and initiate new professional prospects and business opportunities and have a passion for marketing with the goal of increasing the depth and breadth of Acadia’s reach and positive impact in their treatment community. Responsibilities ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Engage directly with patients and families in community or facility settings (EDs, hospitals, treatment programs, etc.). Build and maintain strong working relationships with local clinical teams, social workers, crisis units, navigators, and community partners.