Peer Recovery Coordinator

Location

Hampton, VA | United States

Job description

The Hampton - Newport News Community Services Board is a leading provider of mental health and substance use disorder services, dedicated to promoting recovery, resilience, and community integration. We are currently seeking a passionate and experienced individual to join our team as a Peer Recovery Coordinator.

As a Peer Recovery Coordinator, you will play a vital role in enhancing staff knowledge and competency in the areas of recovery, harm reduction, and peer support. Leveraging your personal experience as a recipient of mental health or substance use disorder services, you will be responsible for supporting and training peer providers within our agency. This position requires a commitment to consumer and family member relations, education, advocacy, and the promotion of harm reduction efforts.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Facilitate the development of staff knowledge and competency in recovery, harm reduction, and peer support.
- Support and train peer providers throughout the agency.
- Offer guidance on matters related to the peer recovery movement.
- Engage in consumer and family member relations, education, and advocacy.
- Promote harm reduction efforts within the organization.
- Provide direct care to individuals experiencing mental illness and/or substance use disorder.
- Monitor, support with daily living, and assist with basic physical, financial, social, personal, and recovery needs.
- Coordinate public events, including weekend and evening hours.
- Represent the agency in the community with excellent communication skills, tact, professionalism, judgment, and courtesy.

Job Requirements:

Must have own life mental health and/or substance use experience and have made progress in learning about and managing their condition and in developing a life outside of, or in addition to, this condition. Must hold Virginia Certification as a Peer Recovery Specialist , Registered Peer Recovery Specialist with the VA Board of Counseling (RPRS), which includes the completion of DBHDS 72-hour Peer Recovery Specialist Training, and at least two years of Peer Recovery Specialist experience.

The selected candidate must successfully pass a criminal history fingerprint background investigation, DMV record check, Child Registry search, drug screening test and employment reference checks.

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Salary

$42.13k - $48k