Peer Recovery Specialist-Peer Led Wellness

Certified Peer Recovery Specialist

Western Tidewater CSB is seeking a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist for our Peer Led Wellness Home.

• Provide lived experience with recovery from mental health and/or substance use challenges to support others navigating their own journeys.
• Function as a role model to peers.
• Exhibit competency in personal recovery and use of coping skills, serve as a consumer advocate, and provide consumer information and peer support for consumers in outpatient and inpatient settings.
• Offer trauma‑informed, person‑centered, and culturally competent peer support in both structured and flexible environments.
• Foster empowerment, mutuality, and self‑determination in alignment with the core values of peer respites.
• Collaborate with individuals to co‑create goals, coping strategies, and community connections based on the Individual Service Plan (ISP).
• Work within home‑like, non‑clinical settings such as the PLWS program, which emphasizes voluntary engagement, peer leadership, and community‑based supports.

• Be a certified Peer Recovery Specialist.
• Hold a valid driver’s license with an acceptable DMV record.
• Experience in using various computer software applications and/or Electronic Health Record (Preferred).

Entry level

Full-time

Other

Non‑profit Organizations