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About the Role

CASES is seeking a Senior Peer Specialist to provide rapid and holistic crisis response to individuals leaving arraignments. This role supports clients in distress by offering peer support and immediate referrals, with 50% of the time dedicated to building community behavioral health and employment relationships. The initiative aims to implement innovative approaches for individuals in the Supervised Release Program with extensive needs. The ideal candidate will collaborate effectively within a clinical team, manage data systems, and contribute to program evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Provide peer support to clients leaving arraignments and criminal court parts
• Prepare immediate referrals to reduce distress for clients, such as hospitals, detoxes, rehabs, or completing intake at a CASES office
• Complete monthly trainings to bring innovative and creative solutions to a hard to engage client population
• Be flexible and innovative in the first of its kind position at CASES, where you assist staff who will work in the courtroom and the community
• Provide recovery-oriented, trauma-informed and gender-responsive services
• Complete direct service work to clients right after they are released and engage with them accordingly
• Assess participant’s; immediate needs, legal circumstances, substance use, mental health, trauma, psychosocial, vocational, educational, and housing needs to complete assessments and develop service plans
• Provide transitional support for clients to their home, shelters, treatment programs and/or other services to ensure and secure connection to programming
• Motivate and assist clients with linkages to behavioral health, human services, and criminal justice systems, as appropriate
• Conduct outreach to families and significant others to gather collateral information for service planning
• Work regular schedule and adhere to schedule changes to ensure SRP consistently maintains coverage for all court shifts
• Perform other related duties as assigned by supervisors and senior staff
• Perform additional tasks as assigned by supervisors
• Manage and update all data systems
• Be a self-auditor of and assist in its evaluation

Requirements

• Certified Peer Specialist Certificate
• At least five years of experience working in human services with individuals with serious mental illness and those with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders
• Maintain a high level of schedule flexibility to ensure service delivery is adhered to 365 days per years
• Experience understanding family systems based on diversity of cultural and ethnic backgrounds
• Highly organized and self-motivated
• Physical demands of the job include commuting on public transportation for extended periods within NYC, visiting participants in their homes and/or community spaces
• Might include standing for long periods of time
• Candidate must be ambulatory throughout the courthouse daily

Skills

• Bi-lingual English and Spanish
• CASAC or CASAC-T preferred
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills

Location

• 100 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013

Work Type

• Full-time
• On-site

Experience Level

• Senior

Salary/Compensations

• $55,000.00

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Vacation and Paid Time Off – starting at 25 days-off annually
• 12 Paid Holidays per year
• Retirement 403b Competitive matching up to 6%
• Employee Referral Program

About the Company

• CASES is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• We encourage you to apply for any position(s) you feel you are qualified for.

Equal Opportunity

• Employment with CASES is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position without regard to race, color, ethnic or national origin, age, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital, military, or citizenship status.
• We also actively recruit individuals with prior involvement in the criminal legal system.