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About 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. The Peer Worker will function as an integrated team member, delivering face-to-face services in the client’s home or community as per service protocols, in support of Samaritan Daytop Village's mission and goals.

Responsibilities

• Provides in-person individualized support to individuals 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.
• Establishes 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 relevant to current expressed needs and 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, advocating on the client’s behalf via telephone and written correspondence.

Requirements

• 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.

Skills

• Microsoft Office Suite

Location

• New York City
• New York Area

Work Type

• Onsite

Experience Level

• 2 years

Education Level

• High School Diploma or High School Equivalency Diploma
• Certified Recovery Peer Advocate (CRPA)
• CRPA-Provisional
• New York Certified Peer Specialist (NYCPS)
• NYCPS-Provisional (NYCPS-P)
• Certified Addiction Recovery Coach (CARC)
• OASAS-approved 30-Hour Recovery Coach Training

Salary/Compensations

• $18.65 per hour

About the Company

• 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.