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About the Role

The Peer Specialist will work as part of the OnTrackNY team, instilling hope in participants and families by drawing on their own lived experience of overcoming challenges with a mental health condition. This role supports and empowers young people experiencing the onset of psychosis through a non-clinical approach.

Responsibilities

• Connect with the community, participants, and families, offering hope and support around recovery.
• Form meaningful partnerships with program participants.
• Expand understandings of the experience of 'First Episode Psychosis'.
• Partner with participants and families to support the development of self-care and self-awareness tools.
• Work closely with a participant's family of choice.
• Support the growth and development of OnTrackNY by creating and supporting a feedback loop between participants and the team.
• Connect participants and their families to needed community-based supports.
• Create spaces and opportunities for participants to learn together and support one another.
• Learn about and connect to community-based supports and resources.
• Utilize lived experience and a non-clinical approach to support team members' understanding.
• Work as an essential member of a multi-disciplinary team, documenting interactions collaboratively and communicating back to the team.
• Continue to develop and hone skills to support this work.
• Provide direct peer support services in various settings, including the program site, community, or hospital.
• Attend team meetings.
• Work directly with other team members to provide support and assistance to program participants.

Requirements

• State certification or Provisional Certification as a Peer Specialist (with the understanding that the person will work to become certified within 1 year of employment preferred).
• Demonstrated lived experience with mental health recovery and the ability to use that experience appropriately to support others in their recovery.
• Basic proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively as a member of a multidisciplinary treatment team.
• Ability to travel independently throughout the community using public transportation or personal vehicle, as required.

Skills

• Interpersonal communications skills
• Empathy
• Ability to relate to and effectively work with participants of mental health services
• Excellent judgment
• Ability to understand boundaries
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Outlook

Location

• 626 Sheepshead Bay Rd Brooklyn, NY 11224

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Grade 13

Salary/Compensations

• $52,079 - $62,323

Benefits

• Excellent Benefits Package

About the Company

• The Mission of the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc. (RFMH) is to promote the mental health of all New Yorkers, with a focus on providing hope and supporting recovery for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances.
• RFMH is deeply committed to supporting underserved individuals, organizations, and communities.
• RFMH is focused on implementing activities and initiatives to reduce disparities in access, quality, and treatment outcomes for underserved populations.
• RFMH is a private not-for-profit corporation and is not an agency or instrumentality of the State of New York.
• Employees of the Research Foundation are not state employees, do not participate in any state retirement system, and do not receive state fringe benefits.

Equal Opportunity

• RFMH is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
• Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer - Disabled/Veteran, 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-300.5(a) compliant.