Peer Support Specialist

California Peer Support Specialist

Position at Clarvida - California Peer Support Specialist Location: Anaheim, California Employment Type: Full-time Salary: $23 About the Program: Opportunity Knocks is a full service partnership (FSP) treating adults struggling with severe mental health disorders along with a current/recent legal history and are at risk of being homeless or currently homeless. About Your Role: As a Peer Support Specialist, you are fully integrated team members who provide highly individualized services in the community and promote consumer self-determination and decision-making. Peer Support 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.

Does the following apply to you?

• 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 service 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)
• Active Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certification
• Proof of: valid California driver's license and auto insurance

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least one or more year(s) of experience equivalent as a Peer Specialist/Peer Mentor
• Understand the concepts of self-help, peer support and recovery model
• Understand the principles of the mental health system and effectively work within the system
• Knowledge of community resources and connections and experience working with peers

What we offer: Full Time Employees:

• Paid vacation days that increase with tenure
• Separate sick leave that rolls over each year*
• up to 10 Paid holidays*
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefit plan options
• DailyPay- Access to your daily earnings without waiting for payday*
• Training, Development and Continuing Education Credits for licensure requirements

All Employees:

• 401K
• Free licensure supervision
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Assistance program
• Perks @Clarvida - national discounts on shopping, travel, Verizon, and entertainment
• Mileage reimbursement
• Cellphone stipend

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. "We encourage job seekers to be vigilant against fraudulent recruitment activities that are on the rise across the healthcare industry. Communication about legitimate Clarvida job opportunities will only come from an authorized Clarvida.com email address, from a View email address on click.appcast.io email, or a personal LinkedIn account that is associated with a Clarvida.com email address." Keywords Peer Support Specialist, Peer Mentor, Recovery Support, Mental Health Services, Behavioral Health, Community-Based Services, California Behavioral Health Jobs, Clarvida Careers