Provides community-based, recovery-oriented support to individuals with mental health diagnoses or substance use concerns. Builds trusting relationships, mentors clients, promotes relapse prevention, supports person-centered recovery plans, coordinates services with providers and families, and assists with entitlements and concrete needs. Services are delivered individually in clients’ homes, community settings, and program locations as part of an integrated care team.
Overview
Peer Specialist
Non-profit staff can work anywhere…. The BEST work with us!
Work Schedule: Sunday - Thursday 8am - 4pm
$18.65 per hour
A nationally recognized comprehensive Health and Human Services Agency, with over 60 programs across New York City and the 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.
The Role
The Peer Specialist will work with the team to provide community-based support with a rehabilitation and recovery focus using shared lived experiences. In addition, the Peer Worker will work as a fully integrated team member providing individual face to face services in the client’s home or community as specified in the service protocols. This work is carried out in support of the mission and goals of Samaritan Daytop Village.
ResponsibilitiesWhat You Will Do
- 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 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 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.
- Shares 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 the client advocates on the client’s behalf via telephone and written correspondence
Who You Will Be
- Someone with a High School Diploma or High School Equivalency Diploma.
- Minimum Certified Recovery Peer Advocate (CRPA) or CRPA-Provisional for designated programs OR
- New York Certified Peer Specialist (NYCPS) or NYCPS-Provisional (NYCPS-P) OR
- Certified Addiction Recovery Coach (CARC) or OASAS-approved 30-Hour Recovery Coach Training for designated programs.
- At least Two (2) years of work experience or volunteer experience in a recovery-oriented setting.
- Knowledge of substance use disorder recovery process.
- Computer literacy including familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite.
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