Senior Peer Specialist

New York, NY

Full-Time

| On Location / In Office

$60,000 - $60,000/yr.

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Senior Peer Specialist (35 hours/week)

Responsibilities:  

  • Work in a mental health clinic and provide peer support as defined
  • Assist client with person-centered goal planning 
  • Collaborate with client and care management team to identify the services clients should receive based on stage of change, immediate needs, and recommended treatment objectives 
  • Assess and provide services to clients to address housing, income support, education and vocational training, social supports, employment, and primary care needs 
  • Assist clients with linkages to and systems navigation within the behavioral health, human services, and criminal justice systems as appropriate 
  • Act as an advocate and liaison for clients in accessing resources to support service plan goals 
  • Use motivational interviewing, recovery, and trauma-informed approaches when delivering peer services 
  • Involve family and significant others in the client’s treatment with the team 
  • Provide individual peer supportwellness counseling, harm reduction counseling based on motivational interviewing 
  • Provide 10% of treatment contacts in the community, including accompanying clients to appointments and events as well as clients actively hospitalized 
  • Complete Wellness Recovery Action Plans (WRAP), safety, crisis intervention, and relapse prevention plans 
  • Conduct mobile outreach to clients who unexpectedly disengage from clinic services 
  • Provide telemental health services to incarcerated persons pending release that will be connected to clinic services for engagement of services 
  • Provide culturally competent services in accordance with CASES policies and practice 

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