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About the Role
The Peer Specialist will provide immediate Peer support at the time of initial engagement and throughout the participant’s time in this program. The primary goal is to utilize lived experience with addiction, homelessness and/or mental health, and recovery expertise to serve as a support and resource for the participant’s own recovery. The Peer Specialist will also play an essential role in supporting individuals within the unhoused population by engaging them with compassion, reducing barriers to services, and assisting them in navigating available housing and community resources.
Responsibilities
- Provide information about recovery support services in the community and support linkage to the participant’s chosen supports.
- Coordinate services and develop relationships in the community to improve individuals' ability to access and/or maintain health care, insurance, and housing.
- Provide Peer support, Critical Time Intervention, Motivational Interviewing, and Trauma-Informed Care to facilitate access to health services and improve participant health status.
- Provide support guided by the values of the Peer Model.
- Conduct street outreach with the outreach team to generate referrals for this program.
- Regularly check on crisis apartments and clients associated with this program.
- Complete documentation in a timely manner that follows best practice guidelines for record keeping.
Requirements
- High School Diploma required.
- Work experience in a behavioral health or related setting, preferably using the recovery model with one to two years of personal recovery experience, is preferred.
- Must be certified as a Certified Peer Specialist through the Academy of Peer Services training program or agree to complete the process to become a CPS.
- Must have a respect for, and high level of comfort around people experiencing mental health, medical, or substance-related crisis.
- Must self-identify as a current or former recipient of mental health, substance use, or medical services with a willingness to share personal experience appropriately and respectfully.
- Must have a valid New York State driver’s license.
- Must have access to reliable transportation.
Skills
- Understanding, supporting, and operating from a strength-based approach.
- Displaying professionalism in all settings.
- Recognizing the importance and benefits of relationship-building and collaborating with other service providers.
- Solving complex problems using creative solutions.
- Acting consistently in a manner that demonstrates dignity and respect for participants.
- De-escalating participants in times of crisis.
- Critical Time Intervention (CTI).
- Motivational Interviewing.
- Trauma-Informed Care.
- Health Literacy.
- Narcan.
- Person-Centered Practices.
- Housing First.
- Co-Occurring Disorder Integrated Care.
Work Type
- Part-Time
Experience Level
- 1-2 years of personal recovery experience preferred
Education Level
- HS Diploma
Salary/Compensations
- $24/hour
About the Company
- Our employees have passion around the services they provide and our corporate values of excellence and staff support.
- We pride ourselves on high quality, integrated, community-based services that meet the evolving needs of our communities.
- We’re committed to building a diverse workforce that values contributions of all team members and work to recognize cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and how they apply to provision of positive health outcomes.
Equal Opportunity
- Liberty Resources is committed to creating a diverse inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- Liberty Resources offers equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, parental status, housing status, source of income or military status, in accordance with applicable federal, state and local EEO laws.