Peer Recovery Coach - Acute Mental Health 255
About The Position
Telecare has over 300 Peer roles and values lived experience, aiming to grow this within the organization with a specific career ladder for its Peer Workforce. The Peer Recovery Coach I engages, inspires, and facilitates meaningful conversations with members served to assist them in exploring, creating, and meeting 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), ensuring 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 to support a least restrictive environment for members served experiencing 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 operates the King County Evaluation & Treatment (E&T) Facility, a licensed 16-bed facility providing 24/7 intensive inpatient psychiatric treatment for individuals experiencing a mental health crisis. Individuals age 18 years or older who meet medical necessity criteria will be admitted on a voluntary or involuntary basis.
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
- Engage, inspire, and facilitate 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 as defined by the Telecare Recovery Centered Clinical System (RCCS)
- 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
Benefits
- Paid Time Off: For Full Time Employee it is 16.7 days in your first year
- Nine Paid Holidays
- Free CEUs, coaching and mentorship
- Online University Tuition Discount and Company Scholarships
- Medical, Vision, Dental Insurance, 401K, 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
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
