Forensic Peer Specialist, FACT

Job overview

The Forensic Peer Specialist role is in person in Chittenden County, Vermont, with a full-time schedule of 35–40 hours, Monday through Friday. Pay is $25 per hour. Pathways Vermont’s FACT team supports people under Department of Corrections supervision in collaboration with Burlington Probation and Parole. The specialist draws on lived experience with incarceration, supervision, or criminal justice involvement to support community transition and reintegration. The role helps clients pursue stability, recovery, and community connections while coordinating with an interdisciplinary team.

What you'll do

• Use lived experience to support re-entry from incarceration to community
• build rapport using client-centered, choice-based, harm-reduction, and strengths-based approaches
• assist with housing, employment, benefits, transportation, behavioral health and recovery connections, and skills
• support compliance with supervision conditions
• meet clients in jail when applicable
• foster prosocial interaction and community connections
• assist with technology skills and resource sharing
• collaborate on service plans
• maintain records and reports
• participate in the team’s 24/7 on-call rotation
• attend annual retreats.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

forensic peer specialist

fact

peer support

community reintegration

re-entry support

mental health

harm reduction

chittenden county vt

pathways vermont

$25/hour

full-time

monday–friday

24/7 on-call rotation

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

FACT peer-support work centers lived experience and community reintegration for people under Department of Corrections supervision; includes a 24/7 on-call rotation.

About the employer

Pathways Vermont is hiring for this role. Industry: Other Individual and Family Services. Sector: 62.