Peer Specialist
$35,568–$35,568 year
On-siteBrooklyn, New York, United States
Job Summary
Facilitate engagement with tenants through outreach activities that promote community awareness and encourage help-seeking. Collaborate with participants to clarify personal visions, develop wellness toolkits, and strengthen self-awareness while building life skills and connecting to external resources. Advocate for program participants both within the larger community and on the team, using recovery-oriented language to positively influence team culture. Maintain open communication by reporting safety concerns and co-collaborating on visit notes with participants. Adhere to an on-call cell phone system for crisis intervention and emergencies, and complete any additional assigned duties.
Required Qualifications
- High school diploma
- One-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 required
- Must possess the 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 is required
- Adhere to on call cell phone system to facilitate crisis intervention, emergencies and other situations that require immediate action
- Willing and able to complete any additional assigned duties given by Program Director, Assistant Program Director, Regional Director and or Vice Presidents
Desired Qualifications
- It is preferable that the individual's lived experience of mental health challenges includes experience with psychosis
- Peer Certification preferred. If required by funder, Certified Recovery Peer Advocate
- It is preferable that the individual's lived experience of mental health challenges includes experience with psychosis during youth
- Ideally the Peer Specialist candidate relates well to all ages, culture, and all background
- The Peer Specialist should understand the community in which the team is based with an awareness of available community resources
- The Peer Specialist should also be someone who has 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
- Peer Certification preferred
- Basic computer skills (e.g. MS Office suite and Windows)
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