Job Abstract

Founded in 1965, Telecare is a rapidly growing mental health care company dedicated to making a difference for our clients, the community, and our employees. We offer an array of mental health services to adults with serious mental illness. We partner with public sector entities and behavioral health organizations and have over 155 programs and over 4,300 employees across the country. And we're growing all the time! When you work at Telecare, you help to empower thousands of individuals every day in their journeys of recovery.

The Crisis Residential Treatment programs will provide short-term, 24/7 crisis residential services for adults ages 18+ via 16 beds at Telecare Magnolia House-Los Angeles, CA

Services will help clients in acute psychiatric distress avoid inpatient hospitalization, emergency services, and incarceration; regain their stability in a safe, homelike environment; begin working toward longer-term recovery goals; and establish linkages with stable housing and ongoing treatment.

Shifts Available:

Full Time; PM 3:00 pm - 11:30 pm; Tuesday - Saturday

Wage range $16.04 - $21.21 – 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.

POSITION SUMMARY

Family Peer Support Specialist engage, inspire, and encourage participants and their families, families of choice, and natural supports to actively support the participants’ recovery plan. Family Peer Support Specialist provide information, education, and resources to supporters so they can be better prepared to bring out the best in their loved one, whether it be while the person is living independently or in the family home. Family Peer Support Specialist are part of an integrated service team who promote and reinforce Telecare’s Recovery Culture as defined by the Telecare Recovery Centered Clinical System (RCCS) in which each participant and their supporters’ points of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected, and integrated into services and self-help programming. Additionally, Family Peer Support Specialist respond to critical situations with high-level engagement and de-escalation skills which support a least restrictive environment for participants experiencing an emergency related to a behavioral health challenge.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required:

· High School Diploma or GED required

· Successful completion of Family Peer Support Training or completed within one year of hire

· Demonstrated lived experience as a parent or primary caregiver of a person with behavioral health care needs.

· Minimum of one (1) year of full-time experience, or its part-time equivalent, working in a program serving persons with mental disabilities

· Must be at least 18 years of age

· Must be CPR, Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI), and First Aid certified on date of employment or within 60 days of employment and maintain current certification throughout employment

· All opportunities at Telecare are contingent upon successful completion and receipt of acceptable results of the applicable post-offer physical examination, 2-step PPD test for tuberculosis, acceptable criminal background clearances, excluded party sanctions, and degree or license verification. Position requires driving, valid driver license, a motor vehicle clearance and proof of auto insurance is required at time of employment and must be maintained throughout employment. Additional regulatory, contractual or local requirements may apply

Preferred:

· Completion of Family Peer Support Training

· Bi-lingual/Bi-cultural a plus

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

· Demonstrate the Telecare mission, purpose, values and beliefs in everyday language and contact with the internal and external stakeholders

· Draws upon own personal lived experience as a parent or primary caregiver of a person with behavioral health challenges as a basis for engagement and to validate members’ and families’ own lived experiences.

· Models strength-based, recovery focused interactions by accentuating the positive both with individuals and supporters.

· Advocate on behalf of and in collaboration with families and participants to promote shared understanding and decision-making.

· Develop resource directories to identify relevant formal and informal resources for families and supporters during stages of transition.

· Conduct groups and 1:1 sessions with families to strengthen the efforts of families in caring for and honoring their loved ones’ well-being.

· Must assist with restraint of members served in the event of assaultive behavior and pass assault crisis/crisis prevention training

Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted and/or changed at the discretion of management.

Position requires transporting Members in program van (acceptable driving record)

SKILLS

· Strong ability to recognize the value of partnerships with participants and families so that a balance between a persons’ choice and caregiver contribution can be achieved.

· Ability to be curious in seeking to understand participants’ and families’ unique circumstances, preferences and recovery goals and incorporate them into daily work as well as any needed crisis response to support the participant regain a sense of control.

· Able to make decisions while maintaining awareness that this decision-making will have an immediate impact on the well-being of the persons and the relationship between the program and the family.

· Strong verbal de-escalation skills and ability to assist with unsafe behaviors.

· Possess strong communication, presentation, writing, typing, and computer skills.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

The employee is occasionally required to stand, twist, squat, kneel and lift and carry items weighing 25 pounds or less as well as to frequently sit, walk, reach, bend and do simple and firm grasping. The position requires manual deviation, repetition and dexterity.

EOE AA M/F/V/Disability

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