Job Application for Peer Specialist -3rd Floor BHSC - Sun to Thurs Day Shift at WellPower

WellPower provides you with the support you need to help you develop a career in helping others succeed. We innovate, adapt, and leverage the diverse perspectives of the people on our team and the people we serve in everything we do.

WellPower values and is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to ending bias and discrimination in our community and ensuring equity within all aspects of our organization. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, transfer, or promotion opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Peer Specialists strive to help people reach their own goals and live healthy lives by supporting them in identifying strengths and abilities followed by assisting them in articulating, developing, and creating personal goals for recovery through one-to-one and group sessions. Peer Specialists support the therapeutic milieu and assist consumers in accessing therapeutic and ancillary services.

Peer Specialist help support children, families, adolescents, parents, and caregivers reach their personal goals and live healthy lives by supporting them in a variety of life activities, with a particular emphasis on those at-risk or impacted by suicide. Support and supplement the work of clinicians as they provide treatment and healthcare services to the people we serve. Share personal experiences about one’s own mental health or of supporting family members in addressing their own mental health and navigating corresponding systems and resources. Offer insights regarding strategies, coping skills, and lessons learned in resilience, moving toward recovery, and well-being. Assist people we serve and their caregivers to move toward their own recovery & well-being. Peer Specialists follow the principals of Intentional Peer Support in an effort to facilitate autonomy, choice and mutuality in the peer relationship.

Peer Specialists may work in one of the following programs/teams (or similar programs):

Clinical Site/Residential/Rehabilitative Based Program
Community Based Program
Social Impact Bond Team

Location: This position is located at 2929 W 10th Ave, BHSC

Shift: Sunday - 9AM to 6PM, Monday to Thursday - 7AM to 4PM

Peer Specialist II - $27.35/hr (high school diploma/GED equivalent and has upon hire a Colorado Peer and Family Specialist Certification)
Language Differential - $1/hr - $2.50/hr

WellPower is committed to fair and equitable hiring with salaries based on relevant factors, such as work experience, education, and certification/licensure (rather than wage history). Toward the principle of equal pay for equal work, we post and hire within defined hiring salary ranges. We ask all applicants to carefully review the hiring salary range for each posted job opportunity, as we will not hire outside the predetermined range.

All full-time, benefits eligible employees will be eligible for WellPower’s benefits plan. For a full description of benefit offerings, please visit: https://wellpower.org/workplace-of-choice/.

Responsibilities & Duties:

• Orient persons served to programs, available services, and other general information about the organization and community partners.

• Report clinical concerns and high-risk behaviors and safety issues as they occur to clinical program staff and/or supervisor. Follow guidance and directions from other clinical staff and

supervisor.

Facilitation of educational/recreation/coping skills groups

• Meet with persons to discuss disposition plans, personal safety plans and create an informal opportunity for persons to address the fears and concerns related to trauma and crisis.

• Documentation in Electronic Health Record – obtain National Provider Identification for billing purposes. Clear distinction of no treatment planning – formal counseling or therapy.

• Work with program staff to develop and maintain resource directory available to persons served.

• Assist clinicians in developing and facilitating Skills Groups.

• Assist persons in obtaining services that suit the individual’s life goals and recovery needs including community and natural supports in addition to organizational supports.

• Assist in arranging and providing transportation for appointments and services.

• Promote collaboration and sharing of resources for persons in the community: food, clothing, transportation, recreation, medical, insurances, housing, shelters and employment, as appropriate.

• Help identify each person’s strengths, supports, and share problem-solving techniques - how to identify and overcome fears and combat negative self-talk/self-stigma.

• Assist program staff in maintaining accurate documentation.

• Attend program team meetings, trainings, and supervision as scheduled.

• Learn and maintain a trauma informed environment of wellbeing.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

• As comfortable, participate in the organization’s and other efforts to reduce stigma, bias and discrimination, and misunderstandings about people with mental illness.

Requirements & Qualifications:

Education:

PS II - High School diploma or G.E.D. equivalent. Has upon hire a Colorado Peer and Family Specialist Certification.

Additional Requirements:

Valid driver’s license preferred and must maintain a good driving record while employed. Use of motor vehicle

Experience:

Lived experience: Have received counseling and treatment and currently continuing one’s own recovery with mental health issues - past or present participation in mental health services.
Minimum 1 year working experience in the mental health field and/or the social work/human services field.

Why else might you want to consider working at WellPower?

Named Top Workplace - we have been named a Top Workplace by the Denver Post for 11 consecutive years
Champion Social Justice Causes - we are committed to ending anti-Black racism in our community
9 Paid Holidays – including Juneteenth, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and more
Robust Benefits Package – our benefits start at 30 hours per week and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, and a retirement match
Employee Resource Groups – our ERG’s offer a chance to connect, address workplace challenges and get support from individuals who share similar characteristics or life experiences
Gainsharing – we offer a bonus to employees if the organization meets certain requirements for the year
$50,000/year minimum wage for all employees – we believe that our employees should earn a livable wage conducive to the cost of living in Denver, Colorado
Free Licensure Supervision – for LCSWs/LPCs/LMFTs
Sports Leagues – we offer a variety of activities for our employees, including bowling, dragon boat racing, volleyball leagues, and more

Tuberculosis (TB) screening, testing - TB screening and testing, is required and must be completed prior to hire ( i.e., preplacement), and maintained during employment.

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