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About the Role

Peer Support services are peer-delivered services with a rehabilitation and recovery focus, designed to promote coping skills and facilitate the utilization of natural resources and recovery-oriented principles. This role uses trauma-informed, non-clinical assistance to achieve long-term recovery from a behavioral health disorder, assisting individuals and/or their families in initiating, maintaining, and enhancing the quality of their lives in long-term recovery.

Responsibilities

Assistance seeking and obtaining benefits and entitlements, food, and shelter.
Assisting recipients in participating in shared decision making.
Using Peer Bridgers to assist with linkages and systems navigation within behavioral health and allied human services systems.
Providing benefits advisement and planning.
Development of psychiatric advance directives (PAD).
Assistance advocating for self-directed services.
Companionship and modeling of recovery lifestyle, including participation in recovery activities.
Raising awareness of existing services and pathways to recovery.
Helping individuals remove barriers to accessing services.
Providing interim visits with individuals and/or their families after discharge from Hospital Emergency Rooms, Detox Units or Inpatient Psychiatric Units.
Assisting in selecting and utilizing self-directed recovery tools such as Relapse Prevention Planning.
Assisting in selecting and utilizing activities that bring a sense of passion, purpose, and meaning into one's life.
Assisting individuals to connect to natural supports that enhance the quality and security of life.
Connecting individuals to “warm lines.”
Connecting individuals to self-help groups in the community.
Providing recovery education and counseling for individuals and their family members.
Providing one to one peer support.
Facilitating person-centered goal planning that incorporates life areas such as community connectedness, physical wellness, spirituality, employment, and self-help.
Assisting with skills development that guides people towards a more independent life.
Providing counseling or peer services once per month for individuals in continuing care.
Assisting with learning and practicing new skills.
Helping peers self-monitor their progress.
Modeling effective coping skills.
Bridging from jail or prison to an individual’s/family’s home.
Bridging from institutions (e.g., inpatient or residential facilities) to an individual’s/family’s home.
Bridging from general hospitals to an individual’s/family’s home.
Bridging from an individual’s/family’s home to the community.
Discussing and making arrangements for appropriate services prior to planned discharge dates.
Providing companionship when an individual or family is in an emergency room or crisis unit or preparing to be admitted to detox, residential or other service.
Providing peer support in the individual’s/family’s home or in the community to support them before a crisis or relapse.
Developing crisis diversion plans or relapse prevention plans.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
“Lived” / relevant experience.
Clean driving record for 3 years.
Must maintain certification requirements.

Skills

Communication
Organization
Crisis Management/Composure
Time Management
Confidentiality
Ethical Conduct

Location

Watertown, NY

Work Type

Part-time/Full-time
Relief

Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Salary/Compensations

$18.00 - $26.00 Hourly

About the Company

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