Job Description
Are you a compassionate and caring individual interested in using your lived experience with mental illness and/or substance use and recovery to model wellness, recovery, and resiliency as a Peer Recovery Specialist?
Chesapeake Integrated Behavioral Health (CIBH) is seeking a substance use or co-occurring Peer Recovery Specialist to support peers in their mental health and substance use recovery by modeling personal responsibility, self-advocacy, and wellness via telling your recovery story; assisting them in identifying personal recovery goals; and developing and utilizing recovery plans with the skills, strengths, supports, and resources to aid them in achieving those goals. This position will include being part of the mobile PEAKE Team who work off of a 34-foot RV out in the community providing overdose prevention and response education and resources, as well as peer support. Part of being on the PEAKE Team includes the responsibility of being trained to both operate and drive the RV.
TYPICAL TASKS
The City of Chesapeake offers an exceptional range of benefits. Please browse our Benefits Brochure for a full list of benefits and employee perks.
#PeerRecoverySpecialist
#RecoverySupport
#PeerSupport
Chesapeake Integrated Behavioral Health (CIBH) is seeking a substance use or co-occurring Peer Recovery Specialist to support peers in their mental health and substance use recovery by modeling personal responsibility, self-advocacy, and wellness via telling your recovery story; assisting them in identifying personal recovery goals; and developing and utilizing recovery plans with the skills, strengths, supports, and resources to aid them in achieving those goals. This position will include being part of the mobile PEAKE Team who work off of a 34-foot RV out in the community providing overdose prevention and response education and resources, as well as peer support. Part of being on the PEAKE Team includes the responsibility of being trained to both operate and drive the RV.
TYPICAL TASKS
- Assist individuals in identifying personal recovery goals through use of individual and group sessions.
- Support individuals as they create goals; develop recovery plans with the skills, strengths, supports, and resources to aid them in achieving those goals
- Teach/train recovery information and recovery tools to assist individuals in developing individualized wellness and recovery plans.
- Model personal responsibility, self-advocacy, and wellness via telling of their own recovery story
- Support individuals' vocational choices and assist them in choosing a job that matches their strengths, overcoming job-related anxiety by reviewing job applications, and providing interview tips and resume assistance
- Assist individuals with obtaining services that meet their identified needs, desires, and recovery goals, assist them with accessing community resources and identifying natural supports, setting up and sustaining self-help (mutual support) groups, as well as means of locating and joining existing groups
- Facilitate and/or co-facilitate peer lead groups, engage in trainings and additional workgroups/coalitions as appropriate
- Work as part of the mobile PEAKE Team out in the community providing overdose prevention and response education and resources, peer support for individuals using drugs and work with community partners to expand community outreach
- Collaborate regularly with treatment team members, other services providers, and significant others as necessary
- Maintain accurate Medicaid standard case files consistent with agency guidelines and licensure standards and complete clinical documentation in agencies electronic health record.
- Performs other related duties as assigned
The City of Chesapeake offers an exceptional range of benefits. Please browse our Benefits Brochure for a full list of benefits and employee perks.
#PeerRecoverySpecialist
#RecoverySupport
#PeerSupport
Are you a compassionate and caring individual interested in using your lived experience with mental illness and/or substance use and recovery to model wellness, recovery, and resiliency as a Peer Recovery Specialist?
Chesapeake Integrated Behavioral Health (CIBH) is seeking a substance use or co-occurring Peer Recovery Specialist to support peers in their mental health and substance use recovery by modeling personal responsibility, self-advocacy, and wellness via telling your recovery story; assisting them in identifying personal recovery goals; and developing and utilizing recovery plans with the skills, strengths, supports, and resources to aid them in achieving those goals. This position will include being part of the mobile PEAKE Team who work off of a 34-foot RV out in the community providing overdose prevention and response education and resources, as well as peer support. Part of being on the PEAKE Team includes the responsibility of being trained to both operate and drive the RV.
TYPICAL TASKS
The City of Chesapeake offers an exceptional range of benefits. Please browse our Benefits Brochure for a full list of benefits and employee perks.
#PeerRecoverySpecialist
#RecoverySupport
#PeerSupport
Chesapeake Integrated Behavioral Health (CIBH) is seeking a substance use or co-occurring Peer Recovery Specialist to support peers in their mental health and substance use recovery by modeling personal responsibility, self-advocacy, and wellness via telling your recovery story; assisting them in identifying personal recovery goals; and developing and utilizing recovery plans with the skills, strengths, supports, and resources to aid them in achieving those goals. This position will include being part of the mobile PEAKE Team who work off of a 34-foot RV out in the community providing overdose prevention and response education and resources, as well as peer support. Part of being on the PEAKE Team includes the responsibility of being trained to both operate and drive the RV.
TYPICAL TASKS
- Assist individuals in identifying personal recovery goals through use of individual and group sessions.
- Support individuals as they create goals; develop recovery plans with the skills, strengths, supports, and resources to aid them in achieving those goals
- Teach/train recovery information and recovery tools to assist individuals in developing individualized wellness and recovery plans.
- Model personal responsibility, self-advocacy, and wellness via telling of their own recovery story
- Support individuals' vocational choices and assist them in choosing a job that matches their strengths, overcoming job-related anxiety by reviewing job applications, and providing interview tips and resume assistance
- Assist individuals with obtaining services that meet their identified needs, desires, and recovery goals, assist them with accessing community resources and identifying natural supports, setting up and sustaining self-help (mutual support) groups, as well as means of locating and joining existing groups
- Facilitate and/or co-facilitate peer lead groups, engage in trainings and additional workgroups/coalitions as appropriate
- Work as part of the mobile PEAKE Team out in the community providing overdose prevention and response education and resources, peer support for individuals using drugs and work with community partners to expand community outreach
- Collaborate regularly with treatment team members, other services providers, and significant others as necessary
- Maintain accurate Medicaid standard case files consistent with agency guidelines and licensure standards and complete clinical documentation in agencies electronic health record.
- Performs other related duties as assigned
The City of Chesapeake offers an exceptional range of benefits. Please browse our Benefits Brochure for a full list of benefits and employee perks.
#PeerRecoverySpecialist
#RecoverySupport
#PeerSupport
About City of Chesapeake
Chesapeake, Virginia is a vibrant community that enjoys the best of two worlds, one of urban variety, culture, and excitement, and another of rural landscapes and relaxed living.
Located 20 minutes from the oceanfront, 15 minutes from downtown Norfolk, and 45 minutes from Colonial Williamsburg and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Chesapeake is the perfect place in which to live, work, and raise a family.
Home to beautiful parks, lakes, and rivers, Chesapeake has more miles of deepwater canals (part of the Intracoastal Waterway) than any other city in the country!
The City of Chesapeake was formed through the merger of the City of South Norfolk and Norfolk County in 1963. It’s a community of communities, with each having its own distinctive history.
Over the last decade, many national and international companies have taken advantage of the City’s ports, atmosphere, and highly qualified labor market by relocating to Chesapeake.
Chesapeake’s neighborhoods offer a variety of comfortable housing alternatives, from apartments and town homes, to single-family residences and executive homes. The City is consistently ranked by the FBI as one of the safest U.S. cities (with populations over 150,000), which lends to the safe, community atmosphere that residents enjoy.
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