Peer Recovery Coach - Acute Mental Health 254

Main Template•Tumwater, WA

2d•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. 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. Telecare’s Tumwater Evaluation & Treatment (E&T) Center (#254) is a 16-bed acute psychiatric facility in Tumwater, WA, providing intensive psychiatric evaluation and treatment for adults experiencing significant mental health crises. The 24/7 program serves adults age 18+ with serious mental illness and uses a multidisciplinary team, including nurses, psychiatric prescribers, recovery specialists, and peer recovery coaches to support stabilization, recovery, and transition to lower levels of care.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED required
Certified Peer Specialist and/or completed Peer Support Training
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

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.