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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, long-term sustained recovery expertise, and Peer training 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 using identified best practices, procedures, and methods to facilitate access to health services and improve the health status of participants.
- Provide support guided by the values of the Peer Model.
- Conduct street outreach with the outreach team with the aim of producing referrals for this program.
- Regularly check on the crisis apartments and clients associated with this program.
- Complete documentation that is timely and follows best practice guidelines around 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
- Ability to understand, support, and operate from a strength-based approach.
- Ability to display professionalism in all settings.
- Ability to recognize the importance and benefits of relationship-building and collaborating with other service providers.
- Ability to solve complex problems using creative solutions.
- Ability to act consistently in a manner that demonstrates dignity and respect for participants.
- Ability to de-escalate participants in times of crisis.
- Lived experience with addiction, homelessness and/or mental health.
- Long-term sustained recovery expertise.
- Peer training.
- Critical Time Intervention (CTI).
- Motivational Interviewing.
- Trauma-Informed Care.
- Health Literacy.
- Narcan.
- Person-Centered Practices.
- Housing First.
- Co-Occurring Disorder Integrated Care.
Location
- Community-based
Work Type
- Part-Time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 1-2 years of personal recovery experience preferred
Education Level
- High School 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.
- Welcome to Wholehearted Health!
- Liberty Resources is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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.