Position: Peer Support Counselor
Location: Philadelphia Pioneer Corps, 1920 East Allegheny Street
Availability of Position: Immediate
Schedule: Full-Time; 30 hours per week, 7.5/day Tues through Friday, some flexibility to meet program needs
Reporting Relationship: Pioneer Corps Officers
Salary Grade: $ 13.75 per hour 73 Non-Exempt

The Salvation Army is hiring and offers truly excellent benefit package to eligible employees including:
· Generous paid time off every year that includes: holidays, up to 3 personal days, vacation time and sick time.
· Employer funded Pension Plan (company contributions begin after 1 year of employment)
· Comprehensive health care coverage with low cost employee premiums, co-pays and deductibles
· Eligibility for supplemental insurance plans including Short Term Disability, AFLAC and Voluntary Term Life
· Flexible Spending Accounts
· Remitted Tuition Program
· Eligibility for the Federal Government’s Public Student Loan Forgiveness Program
· Most importantly – a job with a good purpose!

Description of Position:

The Peer Support Counselor (PSC) is charged with pursuing the goals of The Salvation Army’s Opioid Prevention and Treatment Program to prevent opioid overdose deaths. This program, funded by the Independence Blue Cross Foundation for one year, is housed at the Pioneer Corps. The PSC will focus on the goals of prevention through the provision of intensive case management services to participants and their families, and treatment by assisting participants to access detoxification and treatment programs. The PSC is responsible for recruitment of participants, goal planning, service/treatment linkage, monitoring and follow-up. The PSC will facilitate SELF groups for participants and their families with the goal of developing community champions to sustain support groups in the Kensington community.