SUD Peer Recovery Specialist

District 19 Community Services Board Petersburg Clinic is offering a great opportunity for a full-time SUD Peer Recovery Specialist for the Colonial Heights and Dinwiddie Clinics.

Services performed by the SUD Peer Recovery Staff will be done under the supervision of the Clinic Manager with ancillary supervision by the SUD Program Manager.  The Peer Recovery Staff is an active member of the SUD team that provides holistic treatment to consumers. This position serves as a primary provider of peer recovery services to consumers with addiction.  Position works closely with other staff and community representatives in using a team approach to enhance stability, enhance the quality of life through the recovery process, access to available resources, appropriate use of medical services and patient care.

Responsibilities include but not limited to screenings, co-facilitating groups from a lived perspective, supportive counseling, outreach and home visits.  Also provides peer support services to consumers with substance use disorders and co-occurring disorders in a manner that is healthy for the consumer to regain or maintain independence within the community, and mastery over their recovery process.

Provide pretreatment, motivational and supportive counseling, life skills training, telephonic aftercare, as well as coordinate and link consumers to community resources disseminating recovery resources such as booklets, tapes, pamphlets and other written materials within the agency and throughout the community and other general outreach duties.

This position is domiciled at the Colonial Heights clinic but may work at any clinic in our 9-location catchment area.

The work schedule is 8:30am – 4:30pm 3 days weekly with 2 days of working into the evenings on an adjusted schedule for group facilitation.