Job Description
Job Description
Organization and Mission:
Founded in 2003, AMI Housing is a California-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to house and support the most vulnerable residents of the Sierra Region by enhancing the lives of people with mental illness by providing housing, employment, and supportive services
Position Summary:
The Peer Support Specialist (Casa Dewitt) provides recovery-oriented, person-centered support to individuals participating in Placer County’s structured transitional and bridge housing program for residents experiencing homelessness who also have a mental health disability. Drawing from lived experience with mental health and/or substance use recovery, the Peer Support Specialist offers mentorship, advocacy, education, and individualized support to help participants build confidence, develop independent living skills, and work toward their self-defined recovery and housing goals. Peers play a key role in building trusting relationships, modeling recovery, connecting participants with community resources, and supporting their transition toward permanent housing. Working collaboratively with Placer County’s Adult System of Care (ASOC) multidisciplinary team and AMIH leadership, the Peer Support Specialist promotes long-term housing stability, independence, wellness, and community integration.
The ideal peer is someone:
- With personal lived experience recovering from a mental illness and/or substance use disorder OR
- With lived experience as the primary family member or caretaker of someone with a mental illness and/or substance use disorder AND
- Is enthusiastic, eager to learn, and passionate about using their lived experience to help others
Job Responsibilities (but not limited to):
- Advocate for client needs within a multi-disciplinary team
- Remain up to date on community resources and link clients to appropriate resources
- Document client progress utilizing an electronic health record system
- Facilitate support groups
- Evoke hope, recovery, and wellness
- Provide some amount of client transportation in personal vehicle, dependent on team needs and part of scope of service, and reimbursable by AMIH
- Ability to share lived experience when appropriate while maintaining professional boundaries
- Report to multiple supervisors and manage position on multiple teams
- Manage workplace stress and remain calm, especially while dealing with client crises
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent is required.
- Valid driver's license and reliable transportation is required.
- Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certificate is preferred and pay differential is offered. (AMIH can fund and facilitate the Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certificate to active employees.)
- Lived experience recovering from a mental illness and/or substance use disorder OR lived experience as the primary caretaker for someone with a mental illness and/or substance use disorder
- Strong computer proficiency (i.e., Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Microsoft Teams/Zoom, SurveyMonkey, Google Docs, internet, and Calendar) and use electronic records systems with little to no direction.
- Strong desire to help others through the recovery process and provide advocacy and support.
- Compassion, patience and tolerance for working with vulnerable populations
- Excellent time management skills and ability to work independently
- A positive attitude and ability to work well with different personalities
Pay Structure and Peer Certification
Peer Support Specialist II start at $23.00 per hour ($25.00 per hour with Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certificate)
AMIH will fund and facilitate the Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certificate upon employment and offer a pay differential when certificate is obtained.
AMIH is an equal opportunity and drug free employer.
Monday - Friday 8:30am-5:00pm