Job Application for Peer Specialist I/II - Walk-in Crisis Center - Saturday and Sunday 10a-6:30p at WellPower

WellPower envisions a community where every person’s mental health is fostered through strength, resilience and hope. We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support.

Our Guiding Principles:

Person Centered. We honor people’s identities, lived experience and journeys and treat every person with the dignity we all deserve.
Exceptional Care. We offer compassionate, innovative services that meet people where they are, from immediate support to long-term recovery.
Integrity. We operate from a deep foundation of ethical, accountable practices in all we do.
Organizational Resilience. We meet the moment and adapt to changing contexts with collaborative creativity, agile business processes, and financial stewardship.

Position Summary:

Peer Specialists help people served reach their personal goals and live healthy lives by supporting them in a variety of life activities. Support and supplement the work of clinicians as they provide treatment, counseling, therapy, and healthcare services to the people we serve. By sharing personal information and experiences about one’s own mental illness, strategies, coping skills, and lessons learned in moving toward recovery & wellbeing, assist people we serve to move toward their own recovery & wellbeing. Peer Specialists follow the principles of Intentional Peer Support 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
Rental Assistance Program

Compensation & Benefits:

Pay Range & Benefits:

Peer Specialist I - $27.79/hr
Peer Specialist II - $29.58/hr (Has upon hire a Colorado Peer and Family Specialist Certification)
Language Differential - $1/hr - $2.50/hr

For complete overview of our robust Benefits: https://wellpower.org/workplace-of-choice/

Job Duties & Functions:

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.
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.
Assist in the work of Housing Resource Specialists to help people we serve find and maintain housing utilizing the HUD Section 8 certificates and vouchers system, find alternative housing, meet with landlords and tenants, and assist Housing Resource Specialists in their various job duties
Performs other duties as assigned.

Maintain a trauma informed environment of wellbeing.

Requirements & Qualifications:

Education:

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

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.

Work Location: Wellpower Walk-In Crisis Center. Address- 4353 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80220

Shift/Hours: Saturday & Sunday (10 AM – 6:30 PM)

Physical Requirements: Occasional lifting up to 40 lbs (to assist with a variety of daily life activities). May be required to attend meetings at a variety of locations. May be required to transport people we serve in personal vehicle as appropriate and available.

Applications will be reviewed starting on January 5^th, 2026, and will continue until the position is filled.

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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.

WellPower is 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.

For a complete overview of our robust benefits, visit: https://wellpower.org/workplace-of-choice

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