Peer Specialist
$45,000–$45,000 year
On-siteNew York City, New York, United States or New York, United States
Job Summary
Facilitate engagement by forging connections with participants and families, undertaking outreach to promote community awareness of S:US services, and serving as a bridge during ambivalence about treatment. Develop authentic relationships through empathy and shared experiences, co-create wellness toolkits with clients to strengthen self-awareness and life skills, and advocate for participants both in the community and within the team. Collaborate to promote a youth-friendly, recovery-oriented culture while influencing team dynamics to support human potential and diversity. Maintain an on-call cell phone system for crisis intervention and emergencies, and commit to significant travel to visit clients in their home and other settings, approximately 75% of the time.
Required Qualifications
- Pursuit of Certified Recovery Peer Advocate Certification
- lived experience of mental health challenges includes experience with psychosis during youth
- Two years of active participation in mental health self-help activities, peer support or peer advocacy programs, or participant run organizations or similar experiences or programs
- understand the community in which the team is based with an awareness of available community resources
- made positive and productive progress toward his or her own recovery
- Demonstrate good interpersonal communications skills and the ability to empathize with, relate to and effectively work with participants of mental health services
- ability/ willingness to disclose their recovery story (where appropriate) for the purposes of empowerment
- Excellent judgment/ ability to understand boundaries when working with participants of mental health services
- Adhere to on call cell phone system to facilitate crisis intervention, emergencies and other situations that require immediate action
- Significant travel to visit clients in their home and other settings is required; 75%
Desired Qualifications
- Ideally the Peer Specialist is a young adult or that the candidate relates well to young people
- Certified Peer Recovery Advocate
- Bilingual English/Spanish
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