Peer Specialist
Job in
New York, New York County, New York, 10261, USA
Listing for:
THE JEWISH BOARD
Full Time
position
Listed on 2025-12-02
Job specializations:
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Healthcare
Mental Health, Community Health
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location: New YorkFor nearly 150 years, The Jewish Board has been delivering innovative, best-in-class mental and behavioral health services. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families, to children, teens, and adults. That adds up to countless opportunities to use your skills, training, and compassion to make a difference in the lives of over 45,000 New Yorkers each year.
LOCATION
1007 Quentin Rd
Brooklyn, NY 11223, US
Make a bigger difference
At The Jewish Board, we don’t just make a difference – we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that’s been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.
Reasons you’ll love working with us:
If you have a particular age range or population you’re interested in working with, you can find your niche here. Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.We’re committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.Generous vacation time and 15 paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.You’ll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.How you can make a bigger difference:
PURPOSE:
The Jewish Board’s Community Behavioral Health treatment programs provide compassionate, high quality, evidence-based services to individuals and families in the communities we serve. Our staff use a culturally competent, person-centered approach to help individuals and their families develop skills and resources to improve overall functioning, to instill hope, and to strengthen resiliency. Our programs work closely with community partners to address health disparities in our neighborhoods while also celebrating the strengths and resiliency of our communities.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Peer Specialist engages participants in peer-based services to identify and overcome barriers to engagement in treatment and community integration. The Peer Specialist supports client linkage and engagement with identified onsite providers and community providers and ensures that the client’s support networks are sufficient to meet their needs. The Peer Specialist utilizes a peer relationship to foster connection, trust, understanding and validation.
KEY
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
RESPONSIBILITIES include but are not limited to:
Individual sessions with clients may include helping them deal with issues associated with (but not limited to) substance abuse, mental health treatment, family and social relationships; stress and symptom management; activities of daily living; medication management; and independent living or supported housing.Provide emotional and practical support to clients as they engage in treatment.Foster and maintain cooperative and collaborative relationships with onsite multidisciplinary team as well as community providers.Advocate with and for program clients to achieve personal goals and address barriers such as fear, stigma and communication disparities with providers and community supports.Attend and participate in weekly interdisciplinary team meetings and supervisory sessions.Work with client and multidisciplinary team to assist client toward achieving their treatment plan goals.Monitor and record client’s progress and modify plan according to needs and preference.Comply with all required in-service training and staff development.Document and track resources and client progress.Meets all deadlines for progress/informational notes in electronic health record, fidelity reports, and other documentation obligations.Perform other related duties as assigned.CORE COMPETENCIES for the position include:
Demonstrated ability to effectively use one’s personal story and role model recovery in…
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