Peer Mentor, Mental Health (Est)

Equip is a virtual program helping families recover from eating disorders at home with comprehensive, gold-standard care created by experts in the field and people in recovery. Equip’s five-person care teams include dietitians, physicians, therapists, and mentors who deliver wrap-around support to provide families healing and lasting recovery.
We created Equip to increase access to evidence-based treatment for all people affected by eating disorders. In line with this mission, we are committed to partnering closely with insurance companies and ensuring our team, patients, treatment, and brand reflect the diversity of those affected by eating disorders.
About the role:
Peer Mentors are essential members of Equip's 5-person treatment team, working alongside a dietitian, medical provider, therapist and family mentor to help people recover from an eating disorder. Peer Mentors validate and support patients by meeting them where they are, teach and support patients in implementing valuable skills into their lives, and support patients in building a “life worth living” outside of an eating disorder.
Responsibilities:

• Other related duties can be assigned based on need, applicant's career interests, and/or patient load
• Direct patient care 26 hours a week
• Coach patients through snacks/meals
• Meet with patients (ages 6 to 24) for virtual sessions and check-ins.
• Participate in Treatment Team meetings every week
• Attend supervision and department meetings
• Record notes on sessions
• Options to attend/co-lead skills groups
• Timely and frequent communication utilizing between-session messaging to motivate and support families and communicate with the treatment team
• Participate in initial and ongoing trainings
• Provide patients with support and motivation
• Share resources with patients; model and coach recovery skills
• Be available to work with patients often between 3-8pm in your time zone (outside of traditional school hours)

Requirements:

• Identify as being in a solid space of recovery from an eating disorder
• Have first-hand lived experience with an eating disorder
• Have strong organizational and time management skills
• Enjoy working collaboratively on a team
• Be curious, enjoy learning, and are eager to implement growth-oriented feedback
• Possess strong oral and written communication skills
• Have the ability to build collaborative relationships with strong interpersonal skills
• Work 40 hours Monday - Friday with two nights available till 8 pm.
• Applicant must be based in EST

Bonus if you have the following:

• Passion for mental health and eating disorder treatment and expanding access to treatment
• Bilingual in English and Spanish
• Have prior experience with peer coaching/mentoring

Competitive salaries and bonuses, remote work, generous paid time-off, paid holidays, health benefits, career development opportunities, and exciting team retreats are among the myriad benefits you'll experience while working at Equip.
Equip is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.