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Join a team where your work truly matters. We're proud to have been certified as a Great Place to Work for 8 years by our own employees. We invite you to partner with us in our mission to improve mental healthcare.

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Why Join Our Team? 

• Competitive Compensation: Offering a salary that matches your skills and experience.
• Generous Time Off: Enjoy ample vacation and holiday pay.

Comprehensive Benefits Package:

• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Additional voluntary benefits to support your lifestyle.

Professional Growth Opportunities:

• On-the-job training with access to paid CEU opportunities.
• Career development programs designed to help you grow.
• Supervision for BBS hours for AMFT, ACSW, and APCC professionals (where applicable).

Employee Recognition & Rewards: A culture that celebrates and rewards your hard work and dedication

What You Bring to SBHG (Qualifications):

• Certification: Active California Peer Support Specialist Certification.

• Lived Experience: Personal, lived experience as a consumer within the child welfare, probation, or mental health systems.

• Education: High School Diploma or equivalent (GED, HiSET, etc.).

• Must be 18 years of age or older.

• Meet agency driver eligibility criteria

Experience & Skills:

• One (1) year of full-time experience performing non-professional, consumer-directed services.

• Experience working within a mental health, healthcare, or social services agency serving individuals with disabilities is preferred.

Compliance & Safety:

• Valid California Driver’s License with an eligible driving record per company policy.

• First Aid certification from persons qualified by agencies including but not limited to the American Red Cross. 

How you will make a difference:

The position has primary responsibility for using their lived experience and knowledge of the system to provide outreach and engagement, support, advocacy, and direct services to program clients of all age ranges. Peer Support Specialists are people who have lived experience in the mental health, judicial, and/or social service systems in some capacity. They serve as role models, companions, educators and advocates to our clients. The Peer Support Specialist will support clients in moving toward recovery, creating a meaningful role in their life, which is separate from their illness.

Division/Program Overview:

Program: The TAY Crisis Residential Treatment (CRT) facility is a short-term voluntary residential facility. Designed to help Transitional Age Youth (TAY), ages 18-25, who experience a psychiatric crisis to safely stabilize, recover, and transition back to community.

Population Served: Transitional Age Youth (TAY), ages 18-25, who experience a psychiatric crisis

Facility & Setting: short-term voluntary residential facility | 24/7 Program

Clinical Services: Therapeutic and mental health services, Rehabilitation/recovery services, including substance use rehabilitation services, Medication evaluation and support services, Crisis intervention

Length of Stay: short-term

Skills & Transition: Pre-vocational or vocational counseling, transition back to community

Skills & Services: Daily exercise and health/wellness education

Learn more about SBHG at: https://www.starsinc.com/stars-inc/

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