Peer Mentor II - Track

Overview

Clarvida is seeking an innovative and purpose driven individual to join our team as a Peer Mentor II Track One at our Santa Ana location. The Peer Mentor Program is a specialized peer‑run recovery oriented program that assists consumers with mental health conditions to pursue mental health recovery goals. Peer Mentors work alongside consumers to enhance their recovery by focusing on client strengths, modeling recovery practices, and empowering consumers to eliminate the stigma of mental illness.

Summary: Peers are individuals who have previously been mental health consumers, who have participated in their own recovery, or have lived experience by living with a loved one who is a mental health consumer. Peers represent multiple intersections of cultures including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, age, education, spiritual beliefs, and sexual orientation. Peers have their own unique recovery or lived experience story, and appropriately share it with clients to promote consumer mental health recovery and reduce stigma.

Peers instill hope by showing clients that recovery is possible and providing authentic empathy through those common experiences. Peers provide highly individualized services in the community and promote consumer self‑determination and decision‑making.

Pay: $20‑$21/hr

• Carry out duties as a member of the team, under the direction of the team leader. Specific job responsibilities will vary depending on education and experience.
• Provide work‑related supportive services, such as transportation. Use of personal vehicle is required.
• Perform mentoring and problem solving as well as offer encouragement in the clinic, activity center or in the field.
• Support and communicate with clients timely to answer questions, while making a difference in our client’s overall wellness.
• Provide practical help and mentoring, advocacy, coordination, side‑by‑side individualized support, problem solving and direct assistance to help consumers obtain the necessities of daily living.
• Coordination of social activities.
• Facilitation of groups and/or assignments as required by Lead Peer Mentors, Clinical Manager and/or Program Director.
• Develop effective working relationships with agencies and organizations to advocate for consumer and family/caregiver empowerment.
• Document all activities as required.
• Maintain and ensure HIPAA, ethical standards and professional boundaries with all staff and clients.
• Other duties assigned or necessary to support the program and/or the company.

• Provide the best customer care possible.
• Identify and build upon the strengths of clients, coworkers, and the communities we serve.
• Support clients’ steps towards Recovery and Wellness.
• Create an organizational culture that respects and celebrates the diversity of our clients.
• Value learning as an ongoing process that enables us to better service our consumers and establishes our leadership in the industry.
• Research and utilize our industry’s best practices and analyze our own services to ensure the best possible outcomes. Works under direct supervision from the Lead Peer Mentor.

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred, but not required.
• Consumer of Mental Health Services; persons with a history of being consumers of mental health services or individuals with lived experience (i.e. living with a relative, significant other, or other support person who is a consumer of mental health services).
• Prior behavioral health experience preferred.

• Proof of valid California driver’s license and auto insurance, as well as proof of education are required.
• Proof of Medi‑Cal Peer Certification from the California Mental Health Services Authority (CALMHSA) is preferred. A Medi‑Cal Peer Certification is required for the position. A certification training opportunity will be offered upon hire and the employee must be certified within the first six months of employment.

• At least one year of experience…