Peer Recovery Coach CALMHSA All Shifts - Inpatient Mental Health 378

Telecare Corporation; Riverside (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking passionate individuals to join their team as Peer Recovery Coaches. This role is pivotal in engaging and inspiring members facing mental health challenges, helping them explore and achieve their recovery goals. As a Peer Recovery Coach, you will provide essential support, consultation, and crisis management in a structured environment. With a focus on cultural diversity and inclusion, this organization is committed to promoting recovery and well-being. If you're looking to make a meaningful impact in the lives of others while advancing your career in behavioral health, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Paid Time Off

Free CEUs

Online University Tuition Discount

Company Scholarships

Qualifications

• Must have a High School Diploma or GED.
• Obtain Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certification within 90 days.

Responsibilities

• Engage and inspire members to explore and meet recovery goals.
• Provide consultation to promote Telecare’s Recovery Culture.

Skills

Crisis Prevention

De-escalation Skills

Behavioral Health Support

Peer Support Training

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certification

Job description

Peer Recovery Coach CALMHSA All Shifts - Inpatient Mental Health 378

Job Category: Direct Care

Requisition Number: PEERR025757

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• Posted: April 18, 2025
• Full-Time

Locations

LC0378 Riverside MHRC
3933 Harrison St
Riverside, CA 92503, USA

We have over 300 Peer roles at Telecare. We value this lived experience and this is what we are trying to grow within the organization. We have a career ladder specific to our Peer Workforce.

What You Will Do to Change Lives

The Peer Recovery Coach I 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.

Shifts Available:

• Friday - Monday 7 AM - 3:30 PM
• Friday and Saturday 7 AM - 3:30 PM
• Friday - Monday 3 PM - 11:30 PM (2)
• Sunday - Thursday 3 PM - 11:30 PM
• Friday and Saturday 3 PM - 11:30 PM

Expected starting wage range is $21 - $21.58. Telecare applies geographic differentials to its pay ranges. The pay range assigned to this role will be based on the geographic location from which the role is performed. Starting pay is commensurate with relevant experience above the minimum requirements.

What You Bring to the Table (Must Have)

• High School Diploma or GED required
• Obtain Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certification through CalMHSA within 90 days after date of hire.
• 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 CPR, Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI), and First Aid certified within 60 days of employment and maintain current certification throughout employment

What’s In It For You*

• Paid Time Off: For Full Time Employee it is 16.7 days in your first year
• Free CEUs, free Supervision for BBS Associate License, coaching and mentorship
• Online University Tuition Discount and Company Scholarships

Telecare's mission is to deliver excellent and effective behavioral health services that engage individuals in recovering their health, hopes, and dreams. Telecare continues to advance cultural diversity, humility, equity, and inclusion at all levels of our organization by hiring mental health peers, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, veterans, and all belief systems.

As part of the Telecare family, the Riverside County Mental Health Rehabilitation Center (MHRC) is licensed as a 79 bed sub-acute residential program located in Riverside, CA. The program provides longer-term mental health recovery services 24/7/365 within a supportive, structured, and secure inpatient environment designed to help clients prepare to move to the community and/or lower levels of care.

EOE AA M/F/V/Disability

*May vary by position and location

Full Job Description will be provided if selected for an interview.

If job posting references any sign-on bonus internal applicants and applicants employed with Telecare in the previous 12 months would not be eligible.