Peer Recovery Specialist SUD

JOB SUMMARY

Provide peer recovery support services within the Crisis Center by offering peer counseling, mentoring, advocacy, and recovery-oriented support to individuals experiencing mental health and substance use crises. Utilize lived experience in recovery to instill hope, promote self-determination, and support individuals in developing coping skills, navigating services, and engaging in person-centered recovery planning. As an integrated member of the interdisciplinary team, model recovery competencies, provide insight related to symptom management and the recovery process, support crisis intervention and stabilization efforts under clinical supervision, and assist individuals and families in accessing treatment, rehabilitation, and community resources while fostering empowerment, choice, and sustained recovery.

• Provide peer support services for individuals with mental health and substance use disorders in the care center environment.
• Provide peer counseling to validate the individual's experience, provide guidance and emotional support, to assist individuals in becoming actively involved in the recovery process, and assist the individual in articulating personal goals for recovery.
• Assist individuals in the identification of goals and objectives by helping them determine problems, identify their own recovery goals, and discuss possible objectives/interventions based on the individual's recovery/life goals.
• Provide ongoing observation of the individual's progress and response to treatment and communicate with the treatment team; utilize recovery coaching, peer support, and/or mentoring to assist individual in meeting their recovery goals.
• Document individual progress in order to maintain a permanent record of individual activity according to established methods and procedures.
• Co-facilitate health, wellness, and WRAP classes as needed, and provide mentoring to promote hope, self-determination, and empowerment.
• Assist individuals in setting up and sustaining self-help support groups; provide transportation as necessary to assist individuals in applying for benefits/assistance, attending educational classes/groups, visiting other agency programs, etc.
• Assist staff in identifying program environments that are conductive to recovery; lend insight into substance use disorders and mental illness and what makes recovery possible.
• Must have passed Peer Certification Exam or be eligible to sit for the exam through the Department of Recovery Services.
• College degree or have a high school diploma, or have at least one year of paid or volunteer work experience with SUD.
• Valid Virginia Driver's license and copy of DMV safe driving record.

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