Peer Specialist
New York
Min: USD $40,000.00/Yr.
Max: USD $45,000.00/Yr.
Position Overview:
Essential Job Functions:
- Outreach/Engagement/Bridge Building: Helping to facilitate engagement by forging strong connections
outreach activities designed to promote community awareness of S:US services, encouraging help-
seeking, and at times serving as a bridge between treatment team members and participants when they
experience ambivalence about substance use treatment (including Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)
and outpatient Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment).
- Combating Overdose: Peer Specialists will be certified to train and distribute Naloxone kits to individuals
- Relationship Building: Developing authentic, meaningful relationships with individuals and families
- Embracing Creative Narratives: Peer Specialists need to be able to understand, share and discuss multiple
frameworks for understanding life experiences such as substance use and psychosis with participants and
the rest of the S:US team. Peer Specialists intentionally use language in the service of listening tounderstand and making space for complex personal stories of recovery and resilience.
- Advocacy: Peer Specialists advocate with and for program participants both in the larger community and
- Co-Creating Support and Wellness Tools: Collaborate with participants to clarify their personal visions
and develop their wellness toolkit. Along with other team members, Peer Specialists support participants
in strengthening their self-awareness, building life skills, and connecting to resources and communityoutside of the S:US team.
- Influencing Team Culture: Whenever possible, positively influencing the team culture by advocating for
clients, promoting a youth friendly approach and encouraging the use of recovery oriented language. S:US
Peer Specialists also work actively within the team itself to help build an environment that operates froma belief in the human potential to grow and an understanding of human diversity.
- Team Communication: Peer Specialists maintain open and frequent communication with the team. This
includes reporting safety and other concerns to the team. Peer Specialists will also keep notes on visits
with program participants as required by the provider agency. In the spirit of peer support, co-collaborating on reporting with the program participant is encouraged.
Hybrid Schedule Opportunity
Qualifications:
Qualifications:
- Certified Recovery Peer Advocate (or Provisional) Certification required.
- Ideally the Peer Specialist is a young adult or that the candidate relates well to young people
- The Peer Specialist should have an understanding of the community in which the team is based with an
- The Peer Specialist should also be someone who has made positive and productive progress toward his or
- Demonstrate good interpersonal communications skills and the ability to empathize with, relate to and
- Two years of active participation in substance use/mental health self-help activities, peer support or peer
- Must possess the ability/ willingness to disclose their recovery story (where appropriate) for the purposes
- Excellent judgment/ability to understand boundaries when working with participants of substance
- Adhere to on call cell phone system to facilitate crisis intervention, emergencies and other situations that
- Significant travel to engage clients at shelters, in their community and other settings is required; 75%.
ID: 2024-16115
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