Certified Peer Specialist - Mental Health 378

Company: Telecare Corporation
Location: Riverside
Posted on: March 16, 2023

Job Description:

Description"They made it easier for me to live, breathe, eat, and stay clean. Without them, I'd be waiting somewhere, waiting for someone to give me a chance to live..." - Client from Telecare
What You Will Do to Change Lives
The Peer Recovery Coach I engages, inspires, and facilitates meaningful conversations with members served that assist the members to explore, create, and meet their own recovery goals. Peer Recovery Coaches provide consultation to the team to promote and reinforce Telecare's Recovery Culture as defined by the Telecare Recovery Centered Clinical System (RCCS) in which each member's point of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected, and integrated into services and self-help programming. Additionally, Peer Recovery Coaches respond to critical situations with high-level engagement and de-escalation skills which support a least restrictive environment for members served experiencing an emergency related to a mental health/addiction challenge.
Shifts Available:
Short Hour (2 eight hour shifts per week); AM and PM shifts; Friday & Saturday or Sunday & Monday
Wage range $16.58 - $23.38 - Telecare applies geographic differentials to its pay ranges. The pay range assigned to this role will be based on the geographic location from which the role is performed. Starting pay is commensurate with relevant experience above the minimum requirements.
What You Bring to the Table (Must Have)

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• High School Diploma or GED required
  
• One (1) year or part-time equivalent of experience supporting members served with behavioral health challenges
  
• Utilizing your own lived mental health or substance use recovery story to help empower others on their recovery journey
  
• Successful completion of Peer Support Training or Peer Employment Training.
  
• For MHRC Programs: Two (2) years' full-time experience, or part-time equivalent, working in a mental health program serving persons with severe and persistent mental disabilities, or a bachelor's degree with a major in psychology, social work or behavioral sciences
  
  What's In It For You*
  
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  • Paid Time Off: For Full Time Employee it is 16.7 days in your first year
    
  • Eight Paid Holidays & Shift differentials for hourly staff (6% for PM Shift, 8% for Overnight Shift)
    
  • Free CEUs, free Supervision for BBS Associate License, coaching and mentorship
    
  • Online University Tuition Discount and Company Scholarships
    
  • Medical, Vision, Dental Insurance, 401K, Employee Stock Ownership Plan
    
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    Join Our Compassionate Team
    Telecare's mission is to deliver excellent and effective behavioral health services that engage individuals in recovering their health, hopes, and dreams. Telecare continues to advance cultural diversity, humility, equity, and inclusion at all levels of our organization by hiring mental health peers, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, veterans, and all belief systems.
    As part of the Telecare family, the Riverside County Mental Health Rehabilitation Center (MHRC) is licensed as a 59-bed sub-acute residential program located in Riverside, CA. The program provides longer-term mental health recovery services 24/7/365 within a supportive, structured, and secure inpatient environment designed to help clients prepare to move to the community and/or lower levels of care.
    EOE AA M/F/V/Disability
    *May vary by position and location
    Full Job Description will be provided if selected for an interview.
    Peer Support Specialist, Peer Recovery, Peer Employment Training, PET
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    Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with DisabilitiesThe contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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