Job Details
Role: Peer Specialist
Location: Brooklyn, NY 11212
Overview: The Peer Specialist utilizes experience as a recipient of behavioral health services with a willingness to share personal/practical experience, knowledge, and first-hand insight to benefit program enrollees.
Pride Health is hiring Peer Specialists to work with one of our non-profit clients in Brooklyn. This is a Contract assignment (starts at 13 weeks) with the possibility of conversion to a Permanent role. This position is based in a Crisis Respite Center and candidates should have strong writing skills and experience working in the mental health field. The ideal candidate has a CPS or CRPA certification or is obtaining certification. Please include an updated copy of your resume upon application.
Duties:
- engagement with teams by forging strong connections with participants and families.
- outreach activities designed to promote community awareness of available services, encourage help-seeking, and bridge gaps between team members and participants when they are ambivalent about treatment.
- authentic, meaningful relationships with individuals and families through empathy, sharing experiences, listening, and collaborating with genuine interest.
- multiple frameworks for understanding life experiences such as psychosis.
- to, understand, and make space for complex personal stories of recovery and resilience.
- with and for participants on the team and in larger community.
- with participants to clarify personal visions and develop wellness toolkit.
- participants in strengthening self-awareness, building life skills, and connecting to resources and community outside of the team.
- a youth-friendly approach and use recovery-oriented language to positively influence team culture.
- from the belief in human potential to grow.
- open and frequent communication with the team, reporting safety and other concerns as necessary.
- notes from visits with participants.
Requirements:
- Certification required (CPS, CRPA, Provisional certification).
- High School Diploma/GED required.
- to utilize MS Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- working in behavioral/mental health field required.
- with self-help activities, peer support, or peer advocacy programs required.
- interpersonal communication skills.
- to document and translate participant needs with trauma-informed and culturally competent lens.
- experience with mental health challenges preferred, not required.
- to relate well with young people experiencing mental health challenges.
- of the community & available community resources.
- English/Spanish preferred.
Pay: $21.00 22.00/hour
Schedule: 40 hours per week, 8-hour shifts (schedule discussed during interview)
*Contract starts at 13 weeks, high potential for extension/permanent conversion.