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About the Role

Family Service League is seeking a full-time Peer Specialist for crisis services, including an intensive crisis stabilization center and mobile crisis teams. The Peer Specialist will use their lived experience and training to engage and support individuals, children, and adults.

Responsibilities

• Provide outreach to clients and/or their families in the field, by phone and in person.
• Facilitate engagement in services and offer linkage to community resources.
• Participate in Crisis Assessments and linkages as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Provide recovery readiness support through linkage to community resources.
• Provide warm handoff to all levels of treatment.
• Provide person-centered care and share lived experience to facilitate engagement.
• Coordinate with collateral contacts, including family and other providers.
• Utilize motivational interviewing to assist individuals in readiness for change.
• Provide opioid overdose education and train individuals and families to use Narcan.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team, partnering with Social Workers, Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Peers.
• Coordinate care planning with other providers of services/resources to ensure goal-directed, collaborative care, including care transitions.
• Act as a resource to all team members on community-based recovery supports.
• Complete thorough and timely documentation according to regulations in the Electronic Health Record.
• Complete training and maintain proficiency with de-escalation and crisis intervention techniques.
• Abide by FSL’s Code of Ethics.
• Establish and maintain positive working relationships with others, both internally and externally.
• Foster teamwork, work cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions.
• Assess situations to determine importance, urgency, and risks, and make clear decisions which are timely and in the best interests of the organization.
• Set priorities, develop a work schedule, and monitor progress towards goals, and track details, data, information, and activities.
• Provide field work.
• Report to work during inclement weather and other relevant emergency situations to ensure uninterrupted care and support for clients.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• NYCPS (New York Certified Peer Specialist) or CRPS (Certified Recovery Peer Advocate) certification required.
• Candidates without current certification must obtain the required certification within six (6) months of employment.
• Relevant life experience required and willingness to draw upon this experience to engage individuals and serve as a role model.
• Experience as a peer, paid or volunteer preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills required.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Must be responsive to deadlines.
• Proficient computer skills and typing.
• Experience with EHR and Microsoft Office preferred.
• Evening and weekend hours required.
• Valid and clean New York State Driver’s License required.
• Ability to operate a vehicle in a safe manner under all driving conditions required.
• General computing and keyboard skills.
• Ability to bend, stretch, and stand for long periods of time.

Skills

• Lived experience
• Crisis intervention techniques
• Motivational interviewing
• Interpersonal communication
• Verbal communication
• Written communication
• Computer proficiency
• Typing proficiency
• EHR systems
• Microsoft Office

Location

• Hauppauge

Work Type

• Full-time
• Evening hours
• Weekend hours

Experience Level

• Entry level

Education Level

• High school diploma or equivalent
• NYCPS or CRPS certification

Benefits

• Health and Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Retirement Savings Plan with a 5% employer contribution
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Generous PTO (paid time off)
• Up to 11 paid Holidays
• Paid Sick Leave
• Student Tuition Remission Program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Company paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Employee Discounts

About the Company

• Established in 1926, Family Service League is a social services agency transforming lives and communities through mental health, addiction, housing, and essential human services with more than 60 social service programs in over 20 locations.