Peer Specialist—Mobile Unit

Mount Rogers; Wytheville (VA); On-site; USD 36,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Mount Rogers Community Services seeks a Peer Specialist to provide peer-based support and wellness services on the Mobile Unit. The role draws on lived experience to build relationships, facilitate peer groups, and connect individuals with community resources, promoting self-advocacy and recovery.

The position emphasizes collaboration to set personal goals, assist with daily operations, and maintain a safe, welcoming setting that supports independence and recovery.

Qualifications

• Self-knowledge to manage own recovery process.
• Good oral and written communication.
• Basic computer skills.
• Skills to establish supportive relationships with individuals of services.
• Lived experience with mental health and/or substance use disorders and 12 months of sustained recovery.
• Applicant must have passed the Peer Certification Exam or be eligible to sit for the exam within six months of hire.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with individuals to identify personal wellness and recovery goals and provide peer support as they work toward those goals.
• Assist with daily operations of the Mobile Unit, helping maintain a safe, welcoming, organized, and recovery-focused environment.
• Provide peer support to help individuals access transportation, employment, healthcare, community resources, and other supports that promote independence and wellness.
• Facilitate peer-led groups, wellness activities, and other opportunities that promote connection, coping skills, resilience, and recovery.
• Engage individuals through ongoing peer interaction, encouragement, and observation; communicate relevant needs or concerns to appropriate team members while maintaining the peer role and appropriate boundaries.
• Complete required documentation accurately and timely in accordance with agency, state, funding, and applicable regulatory requirements.

Skills

Oral & written communication

Basic computer skills

Recovery self-knowledge

Job description

The Peer Specialist provides peer-based support, encouragement, and wellness services to individuals utilizing the Mobile Unit. Drawing on lived experience, the Peer Specialist builds supportive relationships, facilitates wellness activities and peer groups, connects individuals with community resources, promotes self-advocacy and recovery, and helps maintain a safe, welcoming, and person-centered environment.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• 1.Collaborate with individuals to identify personal wellness and recovery goals and provide peer support as they work toward those goals.
• 2.Assist with daily operations of the Mobile Unit, helping maintain a safe, welcoming, organized, and recovery-focused environment.
• 3.Provide peer support to help individuals access transportation, employment, healthcare, community resources, and other supports that promote independence and wellness.
• 4.Facilitate peer-led groups, wellness activities, and other opportunities that promote connection, coping skills, resilience, and recovery
• 5.Engage individuals through ongoing peer interaction, encouragement, and observation; communicate relevant needs or concerns to appropriate team members while maintaining the peer role and appropriate boundaries.
• 6.Complete required documentation accurately and timely in accordance with agency, state, funding, and applicable regulatory requirements

OTHER DUTIES: (If Applicable)

• Perform such other duties as assigned by supervisor.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Self-knowledge to manage own recovery process.
• Good oral and written communication.
• Basic computer skills.
• Skills to establish supportive relationships with individuals of services.

Lived experience with mental health and/or substance use disorders and twelve (12) months of sustained recovery.

Applicant must have passed the Peer Certification Exam or be eligible to sit for the exam within six (6) months of hire.

Mount Rogers Community Services is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.

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