Mobile Crisis Peer Support Specialist

Western Tidewater Community Service Board•Suffolk, VA

About The Position

Western Tidewater Community Services Board (WTCSB) seeks Mobile Crisis Peer Support Specialists for various departments. WTCSB provides recovery-oriented mental health, intellectual disability, and substance abuse services to residents of Franklin and Suffolk and Isle of Wight and Southampton counties. The organization emphasizes valuing staff, supporting diversity, and promoting excellence and personal choice in consumer care. The specialist provides peer support to consumers with behavioral health issues, substance abuse, and/or intellectual disabilities in outpatient and inpatient settings. They serve as a role model and consumer advocate, share information and peer support, and help consumers work toward goals they have identified in their Individual Service Plan. Salary depends on qualifications, experience, budget, and internal equity.

Requirements

Be a certified Peer Recovery Specialist or obtain certification within the first three months of hire.
Have lived behavioral health experience.
Hold a valid driver’s license with an acceptable DMV record.
Have experience using various computer software applications and/or an Electronic Health Record.

Responsibilities

Provide peer support services to consumers with behavioral health issues, substance abuse, and/or intellectual disabilities.
Function as a role model to peers.
Demonstrate competency in personal recovery and use of coping skills.
Serve as a consumer advocate and provide consumer information and peer support in outpatient and inpatient settings.
Assist and guide consumers toward achievement of consumer-identified goals specified in the Individual Service Plan (ISP).