Peer Specialist

SCSC - Supportive Crisis Stabilization Center Brooklyn, New York

Peer Specialist for the Supportive Crisis Stabilization Center BH
- Treatment Services

Salary Rate:
Minimum $50k to Maximum $50k

SCOPE OF ROLE:Supporting independence and community inclusion, S:

US’ Treatment Services division promotes person-centered services that focus on recovery. We apply evidence-based practice, data-driven accountability, compassion and dedication to our work. Our mission to bring opportunity to all includes recognizing and amplifying the diverse strengths of the people we serve and our teams. We strive to instill respect and integrity into each interaction and support the voices of the people we serve.

II. ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:Engagement:
• Create a sense of community through the mutual sharing of lived experiences.
• Create professional boundaries when working with participants.
• Maintain a caseload
• Supervise peer specialist
• Facilitate engagement with teams by forging strong connections with participants and families.
• Undertake outreach activities designed to promote community awareness of S:

US services.
• Encourage help-seeking, and at times serving as a bridge between team members and participants when they experience ambivalence about treatment or other services.
• Develop authentic, meaningful relationships with individuals and families through empathy, listening and collaborating with genuine curiosity and interest.
• Understand, share and discuss multiple frameworks for understanding life experiences with participants and the rest of the S:

US team. Peer Specialists intentionally use language in the service of listening to understand and making space for complex personal stories of recovery and resilience.

Advocacy and Support:
• Advocates for and facilitate access to needed health care services, proactively addressing potential barriers such as missed appointments, transportation, fear and stigma, and communication with professional staff.
• Advocate with and for program participants both in the larger community and on the team.
• Facilitate individual and group-based educational, recovery, wellness and skill building opportunities including: wellness self-management; WRAP; peer support; harm reduction; and other social or leisure activities.
• Collaborate with participants to clarify their personal visions and develop their wellness toolkit.

Support participants in strengthening their self-awareness, building life skills, and connecting to resources and community outside of the S:

US team.
• Work actively within the team itself to help build an environment that operates from a belief in the human potential to grow and an understanding of human diversity.
• Accompany individuals to appointments and community/leisure activities.
• Carry a small caseload, as needed.

Pre-Crisis and Crisis Support:
• Providing reassurance and support to an individual in distress or crisis.
• Employing non-clinical crisis support, especially after periods of hospitalization or incarceration.
• Assisting the individual with putting their wellness, crisis plans or recovery plan into action.
• Accompanying, supporting, and advocating on behalf of an individual in an emergency room or crisis unit or preparing to be admitted to detox, residential or other service to deal with crisis.
• Providing short-term post-crisis support to an individual who has been discharged from an emergency room, crisis unit, or crisis respite residence, or incarceration.

Communication:
• Peer Specialists maintain open and frequent communication with the team. This includes reporting safety and other concerns to team members.
• Responsible for timely and accurate documentation including documentation of interactions with guests, services provided, critical information and events, contacts with collaterals and referrals, as required by S:

US and program policies.
• Actively participate in agency and staff team meetings, individualized/team supervision, coaching and professional development activities.
• Attend all required trainings. Maintain the highest levels of confidentiality.
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