Peer Support Specialist (3pm - 11pm Tuedsday - Saturday)

Western Tidewater Community Service Board•Suffolk, VA

22h

About The Position

Western Tidewater Community Services Board (WTCSB) seeks 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. Salary depends on qualifications, experience, budget, and internal equity. Peer Support Specialists provide support to consumers in outpatient and inpatient settings, drawing on lived behavioral health experience and personal recovery. They act as role models and consumer advocates, share information and coping skills, and help consumers work toward goals identified by the consumer and documented in the Individual Service Plan (ISP).

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 goals identified by the consumer and specified in the Individual Service Plan (ISP).