Recovery Peer Specialist

For over 50 years, MHMR has provided community-based services for youth and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), mental health conditions, and substance use disorders, as well as babies and young children with developmental delays.

MHMR employees use a person-centered approach to fulfill the mission:
We Change Lives! Using innovative approaches, MHMR partners with community organizations to provide services and a hopeful future.

The average rate for this position is… 18.00

Are you passionate about making a meaningful impact? Join us where your expertise will directly contribute to programs that make a lasting impact.

As the Recovery Support Peer Specialist, you will provide recovery-focused services to individuals in MHMR programs, adhering to TAC requirements. They offer recovery and wellness support, mentoring, and advocacy in both group and individual settings. Drawing from your own personal recovery experience, you will teach the value of recovery, model effective coping techniques and self-help strategies, and foster positive relationships with support resources.

The specialist develops and implements educational, support, and affiliation groups tailored to individual needs and preferences, while assisting clients in efficiently utilizing community resources and natural support.

Minimum Education:

High School Diploma/GED

Defined

Education:

None

Preferences:
Completed peer specialist orientation and self-assessment, completed Peer Specialist Core Training, and passed the knowledge assessment

Substitutions:
None

Years’

Experience:

One (1) year

Defined

Experience:

Must have at least one (1) year of cumulative experience as a recipient of community mental health services for a condition within Texas' target population, along with self-reported life experience in active substance abuse and mental health recovery.

License/

Certifications:

Within one (1) year of hire date obtain Recovery Support Peer Specialist (RSPS) certification and maintain certification biannually by completing CEU’s provided in Tarrant County:
Valid Texas Driver’s License

Special Courses:
Complete Peer Specialist Core Training and Recovery Support Peer Specialist training within 6 months of hire date.

MHMR has proudly served Tarrant and adjacent county residents for over 50 years. As the second largest mental health community center in Texas, we are dedicated to serving adults and children living with mental illness, substance use disorder and intellectual and developmental disabilities and delays and empowering them to improve their lives through an accessible, integrated, comprehensive person-centered system of care.

MHMR is a mission-driven organization that fosters a culture of caring for employees and people we serve. Our mission statement is We Change Lives.

We Connect People in Our Community
We Link People to Resources
We Empower People

• Respect for people who are active in planning their services
• Recovery is a life-long process of better health
• Success as positive outcomes for each person
• Participation of people and their families in the process
• Inclusion in the community through services that promote growth and independence
• Safe, ethical, and cost-effective services
• Best practices in current research in medical, psychosocial and organizational fields
• Collaboration with other organizations for better services
• Compassion, trauma-informed care, and safety practices including suicide safe care.

MHMR offers an excellent benefits package that includes a retirement plan with company matching, generous PTO accrual, ten paid holidays, employee assistance programs, wellness programs, and more. MHMR is a participant in the Student Loan Forgiveness Program. We work diligently to provide excellent benefits to employees and their eligible dependents.

MHMR offers maximum compensation for each position of requirements based on candidates’ education, experience, and internal equity of the agency. This practice reduces potential for biases in compensation and assists hires and/or promotions on pay equity in their appropriate position(s) at MHMR.

MHMR is an Equal Opportunity Employer. MHMR prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, covered veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. This applies to all agency employment practices and decisions, including but not limited to recruiting, interviewing, hiring, transferring, reassigning, promoting, demoting, compensation, benefits, terminating and other terms and conditions of employment.