Peer Specialist

**Must have NY State Peer Certification OR CRPA**

The Peer Specialist will perform the following duties:

• Outreach/Engagement/Bridge Building: Helping to facilitate engagement with teams by forging strong connections with participants and families, undertaking outreach activities designed to promote community awareness of the client, encouraging help-seeking, and at times serving as a bridge between team members and participants when they experience ambivalence about treatment.
• Relationship Building: Developing authentic, meaningful relationships with individuals and families through empathy, sharing experiences, listening and collaborating with genuine curiosity and interest.
• Embracing Creative Narratives: Peer Specialists need to be able to understand, share and discuss multiple frameworks for understanding life experiences such as psychosis with participants and the rest of the client's team. Peer Specialists intentionally use language in the service of listening to understanding and making space for complex personal stories of recovery and resilience.
• Advocacy: Peer Specialists advocate with and for program participants both in the larger community and on the team.
• Co-Creating Support and Wellness Tools: Collaborate with participants to clarify their personal visions and develop their wellness toolkit. Along with other team members, Peer Specialists support participants in strengthening their self-awareness, building life skills, and connecting to resources and community outside of the client's team.
• Influencing Team Culture: Whenever possible, positively influencing the team culture by advocating for clients, promoting a youth friendly approach and encouraging the use of recovery oriented language. Peer Specialists also work actively within the team itself to help build an environment that operates from a belief in the human potential to grow and an understanding of human diversity.
• Team Communication: Peer Specialists maintain open and frequent communication with the team. This includes reporting safety and other concerns to the team. Peer Specialists will also keep notes on visits with program participants as required by the provider agency. In the spirit of peer support, co-collaborating on reporting with the program participant is encouraged.

Qualifications

• Peer Certification is required.
• The Peer Specialist should understand the community in which the team is based with an awareness of available community resources
• Demonstrate good interpersonal communications skills and the ability to empathize with, relate to and effectively work with participants of mental health services
• 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 require

Pay: $19-20 hourly

Schedules Available:

Brooklyn, NY 11207 x2

• Friday - Tuesday 12AM-8AM
• Wednesday - Sunday 4PM-12AM

Brooklyn, NY 11212 x5

• Thursday - Monday 4PM-12AM
• Saturday - Wednesday 4PM-12AM
• ​Friday - Tuesday 12AM-8AM
• Tuesday - Saturday 4PM-12AM
• Wednesday - Sunday 12AM-8AM

Brooklyn, NY 11206 x2

• M​onday 11AM-7PM, Tuesday- Sunday 10AM-6PM
• Wednesday - Monday 6PM-2AM

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