What are the responsibilities and job description for the Relief Peer Partner (DIC NORTH) position at Edgewood Center for Children and Families?
NOTE: The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has issued new requirements for health care and congregant care facilities to decrease the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks. Based on the CDPH public health mandate, all candidates for positions at Edgewood Center must provide proof of vaccination. Edgewood Center will consider applicants with ADA and Title VII exemptions on a case-by-case basis.
Mission Statement: To be the place for all bay area children and families to find the care they need in support of their mental health and well-being.
Vision Statement:
For everyone we serve to gain a better understanding of self, build confidence, gain strength, and welcome joy.
Relief Peer Partner, Drop -In Center (DIC North)– This is a relief position that requires flexibility and availability in scheduling and coverage during the following days and times- Monday-Thursday 1:15-8:15PM and Friday 11-5PM (as needed).This position is located at our North office in San Bruno.
About Edgewood:
Each person who works at Edgewood Center for Children and Families shares a passion for making a difference in the lives of the children and families who we serve in the San Francisco Bay Area. Employees find themselves surrounded by a diverse and extraordinary group of dedicated professionals, in welcoming environments characterized by whole-person care, open communication, creative support and a commitment to growth, healing and improving each day. Edgewood’s successes come from our employees and the positive results they help create for children and families. When you join Edgewood, you join a culture of purpose and belonging, where your growth is a priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters.
Program Summary
The Edgewood Drop-In Center is a resource center designed specifically for 18-25 year old's. Dinner is served nightly and computers with internet access, hygiene products, snacks and public transportation tokens are available to those in need. Referrals and resources are provided to address homelessness, legal issues, medical or mental health symptoms, academic and vocational barriers, and other concerns identified by our participants. Regularly scheduled programming includes recreational opportunities, community meetings, social nights, vocational workshops, educational activities, workshops addressing independent living and daily living skills, arts/music exploration, and a myriad of groups and activities addressing personal health and wellness.
The Edgewood Drop-In Center is a resource center designed specifically for 18-25 year old's. Dinner is served nightly and computers with internet access, hygiene products, snacks and public transportation tokens are available to those in need. Referrals and resources are provided to address homelessness, legal issues, medical or mental health symptoms, academic and vocational barriers, and other concerns identified by our participants. Regularly scheduled programming includes recreational opportunities, community meetings, social nights, vocational workshops, educational activities, workshops addressing independent living and daily living skills, arts/music exploration, and a myriad of groups and activities addressing personal health and wellness.
Position Description
Peer Partners facilitate a safe and welcoming environment for Drop-In Center participants; offer support and peer mentorship; provide empathy, validation, feedback, and unconditional support; give resources; and plan, implement, and co-facilitate groups and activities. In order to inform programming and connect with participants, Peer Partners, use their own personal life experiences which may include mental illness, physical health or medical issues, involvement with the juvenile justice or child welfare systems, substance use, trauma, immigration, family/community violence, and/or other experiences similar to those of our 18- 25-year-old participants.
Core Competencies
- Ability to facilitate a safe and welcoming environment for current and new participants.
- Provides active support all participants as an informal counselor through listening to and identifying with their experiences, particularly around relationships, attitudes, personal goals, and personal rights.
- Employs supportive interpersonal skills, including validation, listening, empathy, responding to feeling and content, prompting, summarizing, problem-solving, use of humor, and limit-setting.
- Ability to assist young adults in meeting their personal and/or treatment goals.
- Calm and professional response to crisis, including the use of mediation and de-escalation techniques.
- Contributes positively to creating a healing-centered, welcoming, anti-racist, LGBTQ affirming team and organization.
- Demonstrates cultural competency, humility, and sensitivity treating youth, families, and colleagues with dignity and respect.
Essential Functions
- Provides oversight of programming both on and off-site, ensuring the engagement and safety of all participants.
- In collaboration with supervisor, colleagues, volunteers, and participants, the Peer Partner plans, coordinates, and co-facilitates activities and/or groups such as (but not limited to): therapeutic social support activities, skill-building groups, weekend activities, healthy evening meals, outings and enrichment activities around the Bay Area.
- Collaborate with other care providers to support plan of care and behavior goals.
- Encourages and supports participants in sharing their voice and perspective in order to enhance programming, advocate for their or the needs of all young adults, and/or to influence programs/policies.
- Regards 18–25-year-olds as persons with dignity and competence and engages them as full collaborators in service planning, delivery, and evaluation.
- Understands and values cultural and racial differences, their alternative perspectives on mental illness, help-seeking and alternative healing practices, as well as lifestyles, goals, family, and community life.
- Attends and actively participates in supervision; enlists support, requests and integrates feedback.
- Maintains positive work relationships in a respectful and collaborative manner.
- Completes documentation and required paperwork thoroughly and in a timely manner, which includes meeting monthly efficiency requirements for the position.
- Maintains confidential health records of young adults in compliance with the Edgewood, EPSDT, and San Mateo County Behavioral Health standards and regulations.
- Collaborates and communicates with internal and external stakeholders, in a manner that promotes agency mission, vision, and values; agency, region, and area goals; consumer and family satisfaction; and highest quality care.
- Other duties as assigned.
Applied Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Bachelor's Degree preferred, high school diploma or equivalent required.
- Personal life experiences which may include mental illness, physical health or medical issues, involvement with the juvenile justice or child welfare systems, substance use, trauma, immigration, family/community violence.
- Experience working with children, teens, or 16–25-year-olds on a one-on-one or group basis.
- Possess strong interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work afternoon and evening hours Monday-Friday, and some weekends.
The hourly rate range for this position is: $27.02 - $29.72.per hour with bilingual language skills. *Please note- the language differential is contingent on passing a language proficiency test.
Equal Opportunity
Edgewood is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. People of color, women, persons with disabilities, and persons who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex are encouraged to apply. Edgewood maintains a policy of non-discrimination with respect to employees and applicants for employment. No aspect of employment will be influenced in any matter by race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, marital status, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, physical disability (including HIV or AIDS), medical condition, perceived physical disability, veteran status or any other basis prohibited by statute.
Salary : $27 - $30
