Peer Support Specialist: Recovery Advocate & Role Model

Western-Tidewater-Community-Services-Board; Suffolk (VA); Vor Ort; USD 37.000 - 57.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health Insurance

FSA

Vacation/Sick/Holiday pay

Legal Resources

529 Tuition Savings

Critical & Accidental Insurance

Aflac

Zusammenfassung

Western Tidewater Community Service Board invites you to join our team as a Peer Support Specialist. The role focuses on providing peer support services to individuals with behavioral health needs and assisting them toward recovery within our community across Suffolk and surrounding counties.

We offer a range of benefits and emphasize lived experience, certification progress, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to support clients in outpatient and inpatient settings.

Qualifikationen

• Must be a certified Peer Recovery Specialist or gain certification within the first 3 months of hire.
• Must have lived behavioral health experience.
• Hold a valid driver’s license with an acceptable DMV record.
• Experience in using various computer software applications and/or Electronic Health Record

Aufgaben

• Provide peer support services to consumers with behavioral health issues, substance abuse, and/or intellectual disabilities
• Function as a role model to peers
• Exhibit competency in personal recovery and use of coping skills, serve as a consumer advocate, and provide consumer information and peer support for consumers in outpatient and inpatient settings
• Assist and guide consumers toward achievement of specific goals identified by the consumer and specified in the ISP

Kenntnisse

Peer support

Ausbildung

High school diploma

Tools

Electronic Health Record

Jobbeschreibung

Western Tidewater Community Service Board invites you to join our team as a Peer Support Specialist. The role focuses on providing peer support services to individuals with behavioral health needs and assisting them toward recovery within our community across Suffolk and surrounding counties.

We offer a range of benefits and emphasize lived experience, certification progress, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to support clients in outpatient and inpatient settings.