About the role
Overview
Peer Specialist
- Healthcare staff can work anywhere….The BEST work with US!
- $20.87-$24.72 per hour
- A nationally recognized comprehensive Health and Human Services Agency, with over 60 programs across New York City and greater New York Area.
- Samaritan Daytop Village, serves over 33,000 New Yorkers annually within your neighborhoods and communities so our success depends on those we employ.
Responsibilities
- Provides in-person individualized support to individuals who have been identified with a mental health diagnosis and/or substance use.
- Serves as a role model, mentor, and advocate in order to help prevent relapse and promote long-term recovery.
- Provides strength-based rehabilitative and recovery-oriented services individually and as part of a team.
- Establish a trusting relationship with the client based on mutuality and unconditional positive regard during outreach and meetings in the community and in various program settings.
- Supports client in developing and implementing a person-centered recovery plan that is relevant to the current expressed needs of the client, consistent with the Plan of Care.
- Share personal experiences to foster a sense of hope and recovery.
- Ensures coordination of services through collaboration and consultation with other staff, providers, and identified family and/or friends of clients.
- Assists client with entitlements and concrete services; working together with client, advocates on client’s behalf via telephone and written correspondence.
- Attends and participates in weekly supervision, staff meetings, and periodic in-service training.
- Attains and maintains competency in evidence-based practices as assigned.
- Documents time and effort and tasks during working hours as required for billing.
- Produces and maintains thorough, accurate, and timely documentation, including documentation of interactions with clients, services provided, important information and/or events, and contacts with other agencies and service providers, as required by agency policies, and relevant contracts and regulatory agencies.
- Increases client’s awareness of recovery services and supports in the community, identifying and supporting client in removing barriers to recovery, self-efficacy, and community inclusion.
- Assists the client in developing personal skills toward community inclusion, personal development, and independent living.
- Supports client in shared decision-making with family and providers.
- Provides companionship and accompaniment to the client during community, court, and medical appointments, recovery-oriented activities, and during stressful transitions such as pre-and post-admission to emergency rooms, detox units, and discharges from hospitals and jails.
Qualifications
Who You Will Be
High School Diploma or GED
- Personal experience with mental health challenges and/or substance use recovery
- At least two (2) years’ work experience or volunteer experience in a recovery-oriented setting.
- Certified Recovery Peer Advocate-CRPA or CRPA-Provisional for designated OASAS programs
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- New York Certified Peer Specialist -NYCPS or NYCPS for designated OMH programs.
- Knowledge of substance use disorder recovery process.
- Basic computer literacy including familiarity in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Commitment to recovery-oriented systems of care.
- Demonstrate ability to work independently.
- Ability to think logically, prioritize and follow procedures and instructions.
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