Certified Peer Recovery Coach - Full-Time - NOC - Mental Health 612

To change lives

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.

What You Bring To The Table (Must Have)

• A High School Diploma or GED
• Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certification through CalMHSA obtained within 120 days of your date of 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

Benefits

• Paid Time Off: For Full Time Employee it is 16.7 days in your first year
• Nine Paid Holidays
• Shift differentials for hourly staff (6% for PM Shift, 10% for Overnight Shift)
• Weekend Shift differentials for hourly staff (5% for Weekend AM Shift, 11% for Weekend PM Shift, 15% for Weekend Overnight 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

What’s In It For You

• Free Supervision for BBS Associate License, coaching and mentorship
• Company Scholarships
• Medical, Vision, Dental Insurance
• 401K
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan

Qualifications

• A High School Diploma or GED
• Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certification through CalMHSA obtained within 120 days of your date of 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

Skills

• High level engagement and de-escalation skills
• Consultation to the team to promote and reinforce Telecare’s Recovery Culture

Pay

Expected starting wage range is $23.00. We pay Shift differentials for hourly staff (6% for PM Shift, 10% for Overnight Shift). Weekend Shift differentials for hourly staff (5% for Weekend AM Shift, 11% for Weekend PM Shift, 15% for Weekend Overnight Shift).

Schedule

Full-Time - Monday - Thursday - 11:00pm - 7:30am

About Telecare

We value this lived experience and this is what we are trying to grow within the organization. We have a career ladder specific to our Peer Workforce. 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.

About the Desert Riverside Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU)

We believe recovery starts from within, and that our job is to do whatever it takes to help you cope with crisis and gain skills to deal with your challenges more effectively. Our 12-chair facility, serving up to 8 adults (aged 18 and above) and 4 adolescents (aged 13-17); has a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, psychiatric prescribers, nursing staff, and peer specialists who are all here to help you on your path.

Equal Opportunity Employer

EEO AA M/F/V/Disability May vary by position and location