What are the responsibilities and job description for the Peer Support Specialist position at Clarvida - California?
Our company is known for an unwavering commitment to exceptional value and recovery-focused, quality care. We are experts in the field of behavioral health care, providing cutting-edge mental health and substance use community-based services and offer a dynamic employment experience! Clarvida offers competitive salaries and benefits, comprehensive on-boarding and job training, a supportive learning environment, ongoing education in the use of evidence-based, promising practices and much more! We are well-known in the field and have been a preferred provider in the Southern California region for over 20 years partnering with local government agencies and managed care companies to offer personalized, integrated care to community members of all ages, ethnicities, and cultural backgrounds. You will find that we have several openings ranging from administrative to clinical positions in a variety of service areas and settings in Southern California. Join one of our Clarvida locations and experience it for yourself! We have over 30 outpatient behavioral health locations nestled throughout our communities located in Kern County, Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Diego County.
Clarvida is seeking an innovative and purpose driven individual to join our team as a Peer Support Specialist at our Bakersfield location.
Summary
A Peer Specialist has been a recipient of lived experience. Peer Specialists are fully integrated team members who provide highly individualized services in the community and promote consumer self-determination and decision-making. Peer Specialists are also peers to the consumers and they have the innate ability to build trust and relationships with consumers. The insight resulting from this relationship is extremely useful in encouraging continued consumer growth and recovery, as well as a valuable tool that can be brought to the treatment team in gaining insight for the treatment of each individual consumer.
A Peer Specialist has been a recipient of lived experience. Peer Specialists are fully integrated team members who provide highly individualized services in the community and promote consumer self-determination and decision-making. Peer Specialists are also peers to the consumers and they have the innate ability to build trust and relationships with consumers. The insight resulting from this relationship is extremely useful in encouraging continued consumer growth and recovery, as well as a valuable tool that can be brought to the treatment team in gaining insight for the treatment of each individual consumer.
Essential Duties/Responsibilities
- Carry out duties as a member of the team, under the direction of the team leader. Specific job responsibilities will vary depending on education and experience.
- Provide work-related supportive services. Transport clients to accommodate community relationships. Use of personal car or vehicle is required.
- Perform mentoring and problem solving as well as offer encouragement on and off the job site.
- Provide practical help and mentoring, advocacy, coordination, side-by-side individualized support, problem solving and direct assistance to help consumers obtain the necessities of daily living.
- Coordination of social activities.
- Facilitation of groups and/or assignments as required by Lead Peer Specialist or Program Director.
- Maintain and ensures HIPAA, ethical standards and professional boundaries with all staff and clients.
- Other duties assigned or necessary to support the program and/or the company.
Recovery Requirements
- Provide the best customer care possible.
- Identify and build upon the strengths of clients, coworkers, and the communities we serve.
- Support clients’ steps towards Recovery and Wellness.
- Create an organizational culture that respects and celebrates the diversity of our clients.
- Value learning as an ongoing process that enables us to better service our consumers and establishes our leadership in the industry.
- Research and utilize our industry’s best practices and analyze our own services to ensure the best possible outcomes.
Level of Supervision
Given
- None.
Received
- Direct supervision from the Lead Peer Specialist.
Education/Licensing Requirements
Education and/or Experience
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required with computer or business courses.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required.
- Consumer of Mental Health Services; persons with a history of being consumers of mental health services or individuals with lived experience (i.e. living with a relative, significant other, or other support person who is a consumer of mental health services).
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
- Proof of: valid California driver’s license and auto insurance, as well as proof of education are required. Prior behavioral health experience preferred.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Knowledge to encourage consumers to explore and regain strengths, skills, and/or talents that may be inherent in individual consumers and to become more social, through community events and outings, as well as within the program’s internal activities program.
- Skills to provide essential expertise and consultation to the entire team to promote a culture in which each consumer’s view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected, and integrated into treatment, rehabilitation, and community self-help activities.
- Personal experience with mental health Diagnosis, whether a family member or personal diagnosis.
- Should have community resource connections and experience working with others peers.
Excellent organizational skills, interpersonal skills, computer skills and communication skills are a must. - Ability to effectively prioritize and manage time.
Physical Requirements
- Office Environment (not remote position). Requires extensive sitting with periodic standing and walking.
- May be required to lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
- Requires significant use of computer, tablet, phone and/or general office equipment.
- Needs adequate visual acuity, ability to grasp and handle objects.
- Needs ability to communicate effectively through reading, writing, and speaking in person or on telephone.
- Will require off-site travel 20% (local and out of state) - meeting, county and/or client needs.
- Will use personal car or vehicle as required for travel and/ or transportation.
- Will travel for meetings, training, etc. as needed. However, not remote position.
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Competitive salaries & benefits
• Paid Vacation Days (1st year 12 days; increases with tenure)
• Paid Sick Days (Accrual per pay period)
• 9 Paid Holidays (including Day after Thanksgiving)
• Medical, Dental, Vision including a Health Savings Account or FSA
• Health, Dependent and Transportation Flexible Spending Accounts
• Basic and Optional Life Insurance for Employee, Spouse and/or Dependents
• 401K
Perks @ Clarvida (student loan refinancing, pet insurance, Verizon wireless discount, movie, hotel, concert and sporting event discounts)
Clarvida is an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status or any other protected characteristic.
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