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About the Role

The Peer Specialist is an integral part of a multi-disciplinary team of mental health clinicians, serving as a resource to participants and team members in integrating wellness goals. This role requires lived experience within the mental health system and a willingness to share personal insights to benefit program participants.

Responsibilities

• Complete assessments and service plans as needed, ensuring assigned assessments are completed on time.
• Complete progress notes for all contacts, collaterals, and engagement attempts within 2 business days.

Requirements

• Have an understanding, appreciation, and commitment to the philosophy and mission of Community Access.
• Commitment to person-centered treatment strategies, upholding participants’ rights, and self-determination in service provision.
• Starting April 2024, all new hires must have New York Certified Peer Specialist (NYCPS) certification or hold provisional certification.
• Lived experience with the mental health system required.
• History of homelessness, involvement with the criminal justice system, and experience with substance use services are preferred.
• Minimum of two (2) years’ experience working with individuals with a mental health condition, substance use disorder, and / or history of trauma.
• Available to work a flexible schedule, including mornings, evenings, and weekends, in response to participant needs.
• Ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.
• Be creative and flexible.
• Able to show initiative and be responsible for follow-through.
• Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Skilled in conflict mediation/negotiation and possess an assertive approach to problem solving.
• Must be able to work in the community, including use of public transportation across the boroughs.
• Computer proficiency in Windows operating systems and programs, such as MS Word and Excel, as well as comfort with learning new electronic systems.
• Must be fingerprinted and cleared by the New York State Justice Center.

Skills

• Sharing personal and practical experience, knowledge, and insight.
• Engaging and building trusting relationships with program participants and their networks.
• Supporting participant recovery.
• Conflict mediation/negotiation.
• Assertive problem solving.
• Computer proficiency in Windows operating systems and programs (MS Word, Excel).
• Learning new electronic systems.

Location

• Bronx
• New York City

Work Type

• Mobile practice
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Minimum of two (2) years’ experience working with individuals with a mental health condition, substance use disorder, and / or history of trauma.

Education Level

• New York Certified Peer Specialist (NYCPS) certification or provisional certification required starting April 2024.

About the Company

• Community Access was founded in 1974 to provide housing and support for people being discharged from psychiatric institutions.
• Currently one of the leading providers of supportive and affordable housing in New York City.
• Originators of an integrated housing model which has become a best practice nationally.
• Offers affordable housing where families live alongside people living with mental health concerns.
• Staff work daily to support thousands of New Yorkers through supportive and affordable housing, peer-driven residential crisis support programs, training, advocacy, supported education, mobile treatment and other healing-focused services.
• Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is an evidence-based, mobile practice model designed to provide treatment, rehabilitation and support services to individuals living with a serious mental health condition.
• The Bronx Shelter ACT Team will serve individuals with mental health conditions who are experiencing homelessness and are temporarily housed within a Bronx mental health shelter.
• Team members will work collaboratively with shelter staff in the Bronx and other boroughs and use assertive engagement strategies to proactively engage individuals in services.
• ACT teams are multi-disciplinary and include psychiatry, nursing, social work, peer specialists and other staff members offering rehabilitation, treatment and recovery support services.
• The team provides expertise in the areas of housing, substance use and harm reduction, family support, employment, and wellness self-management.
• Services are brought to the participant and offered in natural settings, 24 hours a day and seven days a week.
• Dedicated to a workforce where at least 51% of employees identify as having personal experience using mental health services.

Equal Opportunity

• Community Access is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/D/V.
• Women, People of Color and Members of the LGBT community are strongly encouraged to apply.