Peer Support Specialist - Mental Health 357

Telecare Corporation • Bakersfield, CA

6h

About The Position

Peer Support Specialists engage, inspire, and facilitate meaningful conversations with members served to help them explore, create, and meet their own recovery goals. They consult with the team to promote Telecare’s Recovery Culture, as defined by its 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. They also respond to critical situations using high-level engagement and de-escalation skills to support a least restrictive environment for people experiencing a mental health or addiction-related emergency.

The role serves adult Kern County residents referred to the Recovery Station who are intoxicated from alcohol or drugs. Peer and clinical staff engage clients to connect them with ongoing substance-use and/or mental health services, arrange linkage and warm hand-offs to community-based services, and conduct post-discharge follow-up. The position is on-call, with shifts and days varying as needed.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• Peer certification must be maintained throughout employment; the posting states it must be obtained within 90 days after hire.
• For California: obtain the Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certification through CalMHSA within 120 days of hire and maintain it throughout employment; failure to obtain it within that period will result in separation.
• Experience as a beneficiary of the behavioral health system of care.
• Valid and current driver’s license.
• Personal vehicle insurance with the employee’s name listed as a driver.
• Willingness to use the company vehicle to transport clients to appointments and groups.

Responsibilities

• Engage, inspire, and facilitate conversations that help members served explore, create, and meet their recovery goals.
• Consult with the team to promote and reinforce Telecare’s Recovery Culture and integrate members’ perspectives and preferences into services and self-help programming.
• Respond to critical situations with engagement and de-escalation skills to support a least restrictive environment.
• Engage adult Kern County Recovery Station clients who are intoxicated from alcohol or drugs.
• Connect clients with ongoing substance-use and/or mental health services.
• Coordinate linkage and warm hand-offs to community-based services and provide post-discharge follow-up.
• Use a company vehicle to drive clients to appointments, groups, and other destinations as needed.

Benefits

• Paid time off for eligible employees working 20 or more hours per week, with pro-rated accrual for part-time schedules and 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, 11% for Weekend PM, and 15% for Weekend NOC shifts.
• Free continuing education units (CEUs).
• Free supervision for BBS Associate License.
• Coaching and mentorship.
• Online University tuition discount.
• Company scholarships.
• Medical insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Dental insurance.
• 401(k).
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED