Peer Support Specialist

This is a hybrid position based in Glendale, CA. You have the option to elect into a 9/80 flex work schedule.

The pay range for this role is between $21.38 - $24.59per hour.

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Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services has been a national leader in whole-person mental health, crisis care, and substance use services since 1942 and is home to the nation’s first Suicide Prevention Center. We are a nonprofit organization providing care to about 290,000 people annually across our programs. Didi Hirsch has deep roots in community-based mental health and a commitment to providing culturally responsive services that are just and equitable.

More than 1,000 dedicated employees and volunteers make Didi Hirsch’s work possible.

As a Peer Support Specialist, you will draw on your valuable lived experience to work alongside a multidisciplinary team, foster client engagement, provide advocacy, and connect clients with resources. You will offer hope, understanding, and authentic support while helping clients navigate their recovery and healing journey.

• Orients clients and their identified supportive individuals in the client’s life, to the mental health, medical, crisis, and social services systems.
• Apply a strength-based and recovery-oriented approach to help clients identify and build on their personal strengths, develop effective coping skills, overcome barriers to wellness and treatment engagement, increase hope, and enhance overall well-being.
• Supports clients in identifying and pursuing self-directed recovery goals through shared decision-making and person-centered planning.
• Promotes client self-advocacy, empowerment, and informed choice in all aspects of recovery.
• Facilitates individual peer support sessions and peer-led groups.
• Provides coaching and skill-building in daily living activities including budgeting, shopping, cooking, housekeeping, and using public transportation as tools to strengthen independence and resilience.
• Models hope, recovery and resilience by building mutually respectful, nonjudgmental connections and appropriately sharing lived experience to foster engagement, inspire hope, and support clients’ recovery while maintaining professional boundaries.
• Uses trauma-informed, person-centered, motivational interviewing, and harm reduction approaches to support client engagement and recovery.
• Assists clients in accessing mental health, medical, housing, and community resources; accompanies clients to appointments as needed; and promotes self-advocacy when navigating healthcare and social service systems.
• Consults with supervisor on client care decisions, service coordination, safety concerns, and program planning.
• Collaborates with the multidisciplinary team by communicating client progress, strengths, challenges, and potential safety concerns, and partners with team members during crises to support safety planning, conflict resolution, and ongoing engagement.
• Provides the perspective of lived experience to inform treatment planning and promote recovery-oriented care within the multidisciplinary team.
• Engages community members through outreach activities, workshops, and community events to increase awareness of agency services and reduce stigma related to mental health and recovery.
• Maintains timely and accurate documentation in accordance with agency policies, contractual requirements, and applicable regulations.
• Participates in supervision, team meetings, staff meetings, and ongoing professional development to strengthen peer support knowledge, skills and competencies.
• Performs other related duties as assigned in support of clients, program operations, and agency initiatives.

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