Annual Salary $28,163.20 + $1,000.00 Sign-on Bonus

Since 1971, Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board has provided a comprehensive continuum of high-quality, essential, and community-based services to citizens of the Peninsula who are affected by mental illness, developmental disabilities, and substance use disorders.

Virginia State Opioid Response (SOR) Peer Recovery Specialist will serve as our rapid response person to the local hospital ER/EDs to engage drug seeking and/or non-fatal overdose survivors into treatment.

Peer Recovery Specialist I provides peer support; serves as a consumer advocate; carries out support functions. The Peer Recovery Specialist may assist individuals with basic physical, financial, social, personal, and recovery needs. Services carried out by the Peer Recovery Specialist I include monitoring, advocacy, daily living support, and similar functions.

Full-time Benefits, include:

• Virginia Retirement System (VRS)
• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending
• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• Employer Paid Disability Insurance
• Voluntary Life Insurance
• Annual and Sick Leave
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Cancer/ICU and Accident Insurance
• Legal Resources
• Identity Theft Protection
• Wellness Program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 403(b) Deferred Compensation Plan
• Group Long Term Care Insurance

*Current CSB employees are not eligible for the sign-on bonus*

Requirements:

Must be a person who has experienced a mental health and/or substance use condition and who has made progress in learning about and managing his or her condition and in developing a life outside of, or in addition to, this condition.

Valid Driver's License. Please submit your Department of Motor Vehicle driving record current within the last 60 days.

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.