Peer Specialist I - Walk-in Crisis Center

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:

• 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
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