Job Description

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
• OR
• 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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