Peer Recovery Coach
Founded in 1965, Telecare is a rapidly growing mental health care company dedicated to making a difference for our clients, the community, and our employees. We offer an array of mental health services to adults with serious mental illness. We partner with public sector entities and behavioral health organizations, and have over 125 programs and over 3,680 employees across the country. And we're growing all the time! When you work at Telecare, you help to empower thousands of individuals every day in their journeys of recovery.
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Telecare’s Carmen Lane is a 12 bed Crisis Residential Treatment Center with a forensic focus located in Santa Maria, California. This program serves adult residents of Santa Barbara County with justice-involved backgrounds who require crisis support to avoid hospitalization, incarceration, or both. Residents may be discharging from a hospital, forensic facility, or long-term locked facility and need step-down care to transition to community living. The program will provide recovery-focused learning environment where residents have opportunity to improve symptom self-management, community living and interpersonal skills, and make lasting connections to family and community supports.
Employment Status: Short-Hour, Part-Time, Full-Time and On-Call opportunities available
Shift: AM, 7:00 am - 3:30 pm
Days: Friday & Saturday
Minimum Compensation: $15.05 Hourly
Top of 1st Quartile: $16.59 Hourly
POSITION SUMMARY
The Peer Recovery Coach 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.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required:
• High School Diploma or GED required
• Certified Peer Specialist and/or completed Peer Support Training
• Two (2) years 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
• Successful completion of Peer Support Training or Peer Employment Training.
• Must be at least 18 years of age