Senior Peer Specialist
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New York, NY
$60,000 - $60,000/yr.
Full-Time | On Location / In Office
Direct Service
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 support, wellness 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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