Peer Specialist - Mobile Crisis Intervention Milford, MA

Riverside Community Care, Inc.; Milford (MA); Ibrido; USD 28.929 - 39.950; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

FSAs

11 paid holidays

Vacation & sick time

403(b) with employer match

Employee Assistance Plan

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Riverside Community Care in Milford is seeking a Peer Specialist for Mobile Crisis Intervention. You will use your lived experience to support individuals and families, share recovery information, and help connect them with community resources.

Schedule: Full Time, 40 hours, Monday–Friday, first shift. Pay: $22.27/hour plus $1 CPS and $2 CARC. Benefits include health/dental/vision, FSAs, holidays, vacation, retirement plan, and Employee Assistance Plan.

Competenze

• Supports individuals and families in crisis
• Provides recovery information and psychoeducation
• Helps connect to community resources

Mansioni

• Convey hope and provide psychoeducation about recovery and crisis self-management
• Assist in arranging services after MCI intervention and support transitions
• Provide services in MCI and Adult CCS as staffing allows

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Riverside Community Care

Love what you do!

Peer Specialist - Mobile Crisis Intervention

Peer Specialists help to make Mobile Crisis Intervention Services welcoming, comfortable, supportive, and responsive to individuals who utilize them and their families. Using their personal experience and knowledge of navigating the greater system of care, Peer Specialists provide consumers with support, information, and assistance in connecting with and obtaining community-based resources and services.

In this vital role, the Peer Specialist will:

• convey hope and provide psychoeducation, including information about recovery, rehabilitation, and crisis self‑management
• assist in arranging the services to which the individual is being referred after the MCI intervention, and they shall work with the person and family to support them during the transition to those follow‑up services
• provide similar services in the MCI service and Adult CCS as staffing and time permit

All Peer Specialist staff will receive training in recovery‑focused peer support for Substance Use Disorders (SUD), and shall assist in interventions with individuals/families presenting in crisis due to substance use disorders. They will support explanation of the process to access services, availability of self‑help resources, and provide follow‑up for those who may or may not be ready to accept help at the time of initial contact.

Schedule: Full Time, 40 hours

• Monday through Friday, 1st shift

Pay Rate:$22.27/hour

• additional $1 for CPS
• additional $2 for CARC

Benefits include:

• Comprehensive, high-quality health, dental, and vision insurance options
• Flexible Spending Accounts – both medical and dependent care
• Eleven paid holidays
• Separate accruals for vacation (increases with tenure), personal, and sick time
• Tax‑deferred 403(b) retirement savings plan with employer match
• Employee Assistance Plan / Travel Assistance Plan
• Employee bonus for referrals resulting in hiring
• Discounts to movie theaters, sporting, and entertainment events
• Employee YMCA discount: 10% off a YMCA monthly membership and 50% off the joiner’s fee