Crisis Peer Recovery Specialist

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Location:

Danville, VA. Salary: $42,217 - $73,880 per year.

• Provide person‑centered, wellness‑focused support to engage individuals in treatment and promote the use of their personal wellness recovery plans.
• Share your lived recovery experience to inspire hope, increase engagement in treatment, and support goal setting for wellness, recovery resilience, and self‑advocacy.
• Work as part of the individual's treatment team, receive individual supervision, and collaborate with staff, hospitals, law enforcement, and community agencies.
• Apply knowledge of mental illness and substance use disorder signs and symptoms to provide peer support, advocacy, and wellness rehabilitation.
• Offer a range of services including outreach, monitoring, advocacy, daily living support, crisis intervention, family consultation, functional skills development, appropriate behavior coaching, and transportation as needed.
• Participate in special events, conferences, workshops, and training within the mental health system and the broader community.
• Document all contacts and activities in the individual's records.

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Must be, or have previously been, a recipient of mental health or substance use disorder services and be well along in recovery.
• Valid driver's license and safe driving record.

• Certification as an Action Planning for Prevention and Recovery (APPR) Facilitator.
• Certification and registration as a Peer Recovery Specialist.
• Some college education.

Fingerprints, state and FBI criminal record reports, drug test, and central registry (CANIS) report will be required upon request. Our Agency maintains a drug‑free workplace.

Shift Differential: $2.00 for 2nd shift; $3.00 for 3rd shift; 3% increase for Registered Peer Recovery Specialists.

Excellent fringe benefits.

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