Peer Support Jobs in Riverside, CA (NOW HIRING)

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 100 programs and over 3,400 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.

Lagos Crisis Residential Facility provides a peer-to-peer, community-based, recovery-oriented alternative to hospitalization.  The 16-bed program offers short-stay residential services to adults ages 18-59 who have severe and persistent mental health issues and need an intensive level of support but do not require treatment in a locked program.  Assessments, individual and group therapy, and person-centered counseling and training are provided in a supportive, home-like environment to assist clients in living successfully in community.

                                                                             Wage: $21.00 - $21.95

Shifts:  On-Call - Various Shifts needed

POSITION SUMMARY
Family Peer Support Specialist engage, inspire, and encourage participants and their families, families of choice, and natural supports to actively support the participants’ recovery plan. Family Peer Support Specialist provide information, education, and resources to supporters so they can be better prepared to bring out the best in their loved one, whether it be while the person is living independently or in the family home. Family Peer Support Specialist are part of an integrated service team who promote and reinforce Telecare’s Recovery Culture as defined by the Telecare Recovery Centered Clinical System (RCCS) in which each participant and their supporters’ points of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected, and integrated into services and self-help programming. Additionally, Family Peer Support Specialist respond to critical situations with high-level engagement and de-escalation skills which support a least restrictive environment for participants experiencing an emergency related to a behavioral health challenge.
QUALIFICATIONS
• High School Diploma or GED required
• Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certification through CalMHSA must be obtained within 120 days of your date of hire and maintained throughout employment. Failure to obtain certification within this period will result in separation with the company.
• Demonstrated lived experience as a parent or primary caregiver of a person with behavioral health care needs.
• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Must be CPR, Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI), and First Aid certified on date of employment or within 60 days of employment and maintain current certification throughout employment
• All opportunities at Telecare are contingent upon successful completion and receipt of acceptable results of the applicable post-offer physical examination, 2-step PPD test for tuberculosis, acceptable criminal background clearances, excluded party sanctions, and degree or license verification. If the position requires driving, valid driver license, a motor vehicle clearance and proof of auto insurance is required at time of employment and must be maintained throughout employment. Additional regulatory, contractual or local requirements may apply

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• Demonstrate the Telecare mission, purpose, values and beliefs in everyday language and contact with the internal and external stakeholders
• Draws upon own personal lived experience as a parent or primary caregiver of a person with behavioral health challenges as a basis for engagement and to validate members’ and families’ own lived experiences.
• Models strength-based, recovery focused interactions by accentuating the positive both with individuals and supporters.
• Advocate on behalf of and in collaboration with families and participants to promote shared understanding and decision-making.
• Develop resource directories to identify relevant formal and informal resources for families and supporters during stages of transition.
• Conduct groups and 1:1 sessions with families to strengthen the efforts of families in caring for and honoring their loved ones’ well-being.
• If employed at Inpatient program, must assist with restraint of members served in the event of assaultive behavior and pass assault crisis/crisis prevention training
• If employed at Outpatient program, must evade members served in the event of assaultive behavior and pass assault crisis/crisis prevention training
Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted and/or changed at the discretion of management.

SKILLS
• Strong ability to recognize the value of partnerships with participants and families so that a balance between a persons’ choice and caregiver contribution can be achieved.
• Ability to be curious in seeking to understand participants’ and families’ unique circumstances, preferences and recovery goals and incorporate them into daily work as well as any needed crisis response to support the participant regain a sense of control.
• Able to make decisions while maintaining awareness that this decision-making will have an immediate impact on the well-being of the persons and the relationship between the program and the family.
• Strong verbal de-escalation skills and ability to assist with unsafe behaviors.
• Possess strong communication, presentation, writing, typing, and computer skills.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
The employee is occasionally required to stand, twist, squat, kneel and lift and carry items weighing 25 pounds or less as well as to frequently sit, walk, reach, bend and do simple and firm grasping. The position requires manual deviation, repetition and dexterity.