Peer Recovery Coach - Mental Health 209
About The Position
The Peer Recovery Coach I engages, inspires, and facilitates meaningful conversations with members served, helping them explore, create, and meet their own recovery goals. The role consults with the team to promote and reinforce Telecare’s Recovery Culture, as defined by its Recovery Centered Clinical System (RCCS), where each member’s point of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected, and integrated into services and self-help programming. Peer Recovery Coaches also respond to critical situations using high-level engagement and de-escalation skills to support a least restrictive environment for members experiencing a mental health or addiction-related emergency. The position is with Multnomah Crisis and Treatment Center (CATC), a subacute, 16-bed, 24/7 secure short-term crisis program serving adults with persistent and serious mental illness who live in Multnomah County. Shifts vary. The expected starting wage range is $18.69–$22.52; geographic differentials apply, and starting pay is commensurate with relevant experience above the minimum requirements.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED.
- Peer Certification obtained before hire and maintained throughout employment.
- For Oregon: obtain Traditional Health Worker (THW) Certification through OHA as a Peer Support Specialist or Peer Wellness Specialist before the hire date and maintain it throughout employment.
- One 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
- Engage, inspire, and facilitate meaningful conversations with members served to help them explore, create, and meet their recovery goals.
- Consult with the team to promote and reinforce Telecare’s Recovery Culture and integrate members’ points of view and preferences into services and self-help programming.
- Respond to critical situations with engagement and de-escalation skills to support a least restrictive environment for members experiencing a mental health or addiction-related emergency.
Benefits
- Paid time off for eligible employees working 20 or more hours per week, accrued each pay period for vacation and personal needs; part-time accrual is prorated, with annual carryover up to set caps.
- Nine paid holidays.
- Shift differentials for hourly staff: 6% for PM shift and 10% for NOC shift.
- Weekend shift differentials for hourly staff: 5% for Weekend AM shift, 11% for Weekend PM shift, and 15% for Weekend NOC shift.
- Free CEUs, coaching, and mentorship.
- Online University tuition discount and company scholarships.
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance.
- 401(k).
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
