Recovery-Focused Peer Specialist for Community Support

Hillview Mental Health Center, Inc; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Hillview Mental Health Center, Inc. is seeking a Certified Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist to provide recovery-oriented peer support in the Northeast San Fernando Valley.

You will conduct psychoeducation groups, support individuals with daily living, and help connect clients to housing, health care, benefits, and community resources while collaborating with the treatment team.

This role emphasizes lived experience, professional boundaries, and adherence to HIPAA and ethics.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED or equivalent.
• Self-identification of lived experience with recovery from mental illness, substance use disorder, or both.
• Willingness to share relevant lived experience appropriately in support of client recovery, while maintaining professional boundaries.
• Strong commitment to recovery-oriented, person-centered, culturally responsive, and strengths-based services.
• Completion of the state-approved Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist training (80 hours) and successful certification examination.
• Agreement in writing to comply with the California Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Code of Ethics.
• Current, valid Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist certification when required for duties and billable services.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary treatment team and to provide services in office and community settings.
• Ability to maintain appropriate boundaries, protect confidential information, accept supervision, and respond professionally to feedback.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate psychoeducation and peer-support groups that promote recovery, wellness, coping strategies, self-advocacy, social connection, and independent living skills.
• Provide individual case management and peer support services, including field-based contacts, outreach, engagement, and community-based support as authorized.
• Support clients in identifying personal strengths, recovery goals, natural supports, and practical strategies for daily living challenges.
• Assist clients with linkage to housing, healthcare, benefits, employment, transportation, substance use services, and other supports based on individual needs.
• Encourage client participation in treatment and reinforce client-defined wellness, recovery, and service plans with the treatment team.
• Use lived experience appropriately to model hope, resilience, self-advocacy, and recovery while maintaining boundaries.
• Provide supportive engagement and de‑escalation, communicate crisis concerns, and follow Hillview safety procedures.
• Collaborate with clinicians, case managers, nurses, program staff, and community partners to support continuity of care and client engagement.
• Complete timely, accurate, objective, and legible documentation in accordance with Hillview policies and applicable rules.
• Maintain confidentiality and comply with HIPAA and the California Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Code of Ethics.
• Participate in supervision, team meetings, training, case consultations, and quality improvement activities.
• Perform other duties consistent with the position’s scope, training, and program needs.

Job description

Hillview Mental Health Center, Inc. is seeking a Certified Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist to provide recovery-oriented peer support in the Northeast San Fernando Valley.

You will conduct psychoeducation groups, support individuals with daily living, and help connect clients to housing, health care, benefits, and community resources while collaborating with the treatment team.

This role emphasizes lived experience, professional boundaries, and adherence to HIPAA and ethics.