Certified Peer Recovery Coach - Mental Health 381

Main Template•Garden Grove, CA

15h•Onsite

About The Position

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. Home First FSP provides intensive and comprehensive housing supports to individuals who are at risk of losing housing in the Central region of Orange County. Telecare will employ a range of housing focused case management and behavioral health interventions through a fully mobile triage and field-based case management approach. Staff will be deployed to provide services onsite at permanent supportive housing developments, scattered site apartments and other transitional housing locations where clients reside. Focus areas will include resident wellness checks; wellness groups, skill building activities, and housing stabilization focused case management services; behavioral health and substance use services, crisis interventions; conflict resolution and property manager mediation; and other interventions that focus on successful tenancy, eviction avoidance and community integration.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED required
Peer Certification must be obtained prior to hire and maintained throughout employment
One (1) year or part-time equivalent of experience supporting members served with behavioral health challenges
Experience as a beneficiary of the public Behavioral Health system of care
Successful completion of Peer Support Training or Peer Employment Training.
Valid and current driver’s license, and personal vehicle insurance with your name listed as a driver.
Willingness to use your personal vehicle to drive clients to appointments and groups, etc.

Nice To Haves

Peer Support Specialist
Peer Recovery
Peer Employment Training, PET

Responsibilities

Engages, inspires, and facilitates meaningful conversations with members served that assist the members to explore, create, and meet their own recovery goals.
Provide consultation to the team to promote and reinforce Telecare’s Recovery Culture.
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.
Provide services onsite at permanent supportive housing developments, scattered site apartments and other transitional housing locations where clients reside.
Conduct resident wellness checks.
Facilitate wellness groups, skill building activities, and housing stabilization focused case management services.
Provide behavioral health and substance use services, crisis interventions.
Engage in conflict resolution and property manager mediation.
Provide other interventions that focus on successful tenancy, eviction avoidance and community integration.

Benefits

Paid Time Off
Nine Paid Holidays
Shift differentials for hourly staff (6% for PM Shift, 10% for NOC Shift)
Weekend Shift differentials for hourly staff (5% for Weekend AM Shift, 11% for Weekend PM Shift, 15% for Weekend NOC 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