Riverside Community Care
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Peer Mentor - Life Skills
Exciting opportunity to join Riverside Community Care as a Peer Mentor!
Peer Mentors provide specialized expertise based on sharing their own lived experience of mental health challenges with purpose and intent to inspire hope and motivation in a youth who is struggling with similar concerns.
In this important role, the Peer Mentor will:
- guide youth through their treatment process providing outreach, peer support and advocacy, all in accordance to the client’s individual service plan
- help clients gain access to recovery resources and communities
- work in coordination with the clinical team while using their recovery experience as a positive model for clients’ process.
Schedule: Full Time 40 hours per week; 20 hours in Milford and 20 hours in Needham
Pay Rate:
- $21.63/hour
- $22.28/hour with Peer Specialist certification
Why You'll Love Riverside
We make a true difference in people’s lives through rewarding work. Most of our jobs come with great benefits – including healthcare, numerous professional development opportunities, and generous time off - all in a respectful and inclusive environment, perhaps why Riverside was named a Boston Globe Top Workplace and a best-in-state employer by Forbes.
Benefits include:
- Comprehensive, high-quality health, dental, and vision insurance options
- Flexible Spending Accounts – both medical and dependent care
- Eleven paid holidays
- Separate accruals for vacation (increases with tenure), personal, and sick time
- Tax-deferred 403(b) retirement savings plan with employer match
- Employee Assistance Plan / Travel Assistance Plan
- Employee bonus for referrals resulting in hiring
- Discounts to movie theaters, sporting, and entertainment events
- Employee YMCA discount: 10% off a YMCA monthly membership and 50% off the joiner’s fee
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