Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens
Peer Specialist - Full-time; 4413-203-N
Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens, New York, New York, us, 10261
Overview
Peer Specialist:
Are you looking to join a dynamic team focused on providing high quality health care to communities across Brooklyn & Queens? Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens has been providing quality social services for 125+ years and offers 160-plus programs and services for children, youth, adults, seniors, and those with mental illness. We provide comprehensive care coordination and treatment services to individuals with serious mental illness, complex medical needs and substance use needs. Our Queens ACT team provides an integrated set of evidence-based treatment, rehabilitation, case management, and support services delivered by a mobile, multidisciplinary mental health treatment team. ACT supports client recovery through an individualized approach that helps clients obtain and maintain housing, employment, relationships and relief from symptoms and medication side effects. The Peer Specialist is part of this multi-disciplinary team and is responsible for delivering intensive in-home and community-based services to individuals living with severe mental illness, with treatment histories characterized by frequent psychiatric hospitalizations, emergency room visits, involvement with the criminal justice system, alcohol/substance use, and limited engagement in traditional outpatient services. Responsibilities
The Peer Specialist will play a vital role in outreach and engagement of clients on the ACT team. The Peer Specialist will use personal lived experience as a service recipient to serve as a role model, educate clients about self-help techniques and self-help group processes, teach effective coping strategies and symptom management skills, help clients develop daily living skills, assist in clarifying rehabilitation and recovery goals, and assist in developing community support systems and networks. The Peer Specialist engages clients in peer-based services to identify and overcome barriers to community integration, utilizing a peer relationship to foster connection, trust, understanding and validation with community providers and supports. The Peer Specialist will collaborate with ACT team members to ensure clients become linked and engaged with identified community providers and that their support network meets their needs. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Providing direct treatment and support services to clients with psychiatric diagnoses, co-occurring substance use, chronic physical health problems and complex social needs, including weekly visits. Assessing and providing direct services in health and wellness, housing, income support, education, vocational training, employment and social supports, medication support. Providing intensive emotional and practical support to clients, especially during transitions between settings or from hospital to community. Conducting home visits with individual sessions emphasizing prevention and preparation for independent community living and promoting optimum mental and emotional health; assisting with family and social relationships, stress and symptom management, activities of daily living, medication management, and housing readiness. Assisting and instructing clients in daily living skills such as personal hygiene, grooming, laundry, nutrition/meal preparation, budgeting, and socialization tasks. Community navigation including accompanying to first behavioral health and medical appointments, travel training, reengagement in community care, and referrals to services while identifying barriers to access. Making visits to hospitalized clients to coordinate care and advocating for hospitalized clients. Assisting in client wellness self-management groups, consumer advisory board meetings and other activities focused on education, health, wellness, smoking cessation and recovery. Developing short-term person-centered treatment plans to help clients achieve their goals.
The Peer Specialist is required to utilize technology and various web-based platforms for documenting progress notes and daily work activities. Ability to use equipment such as iPhones, tablets, Surface Pros and navigate various technology platforms and reporting systems is required. The role may include on-call after-hours crisis intervention services when needed to the client and their support network, including respite referrals and other diversion and stabilization services. Specifications for Education/Certifications/Licenses
High School Diploma or GED. OMH Peer Certification preferred. Specifications for Experience and Training
Completion of an internship or comparable training in peer advocacy. Experience in providing advocacy services to people who are mentally ill and/or homeless. Past or current recipient of mental health, substance services or homeless services preferred. History of mental illness and at least one year of symptom remission. Knowledge of mental illness and substance abuse disorders. Basic knowledge of treatment, rehabilitation, and community support programs as they relate to clients and their families. Basic knowledge of techniques for identifying risk, including crisis management techniques. A person who has developed their own recovery plan and has demonstrated relatively stable and successful management of their recovery. Ability to read and write in English. Knowledge of computer programs (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, & Outlook). Good communication skills. Knowledge of a second language is preferred (Spanish, Russian, Creole, Cantonese). We offer competitive salary and excellent benefits including generous time off, Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement Savings with Agency Match, Transit, life insurance and other additional voluntary benefits. EOE/AA. For more information on our organization, please visit our website at: www.ccbq.org
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Peer Specialist:
Are you looking to join a dynamic team focused on providing high quality health care to communities across Brooklyn & Queens? Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens has been providing quality social services for 125+ years and offers 160-plus programs and services for children, youth, adults, seniors, and those with mental illness. We provide comprehensive care coordination and treatment services to individuals with serious mental illness, complex medical needs and substance use needs. Our Queens ACT team provides an integrated set of evidence-based treatment, rehabilitation, case management, and support services delivered by a mobile, multidisciplinary mental health treatment team. ACT supports client recovery through an individualized approach that helps clients obtain and maintain housing, employment, relationships and relief from symptoms and medication side effects. The Peer Specialist is part of this multi-disciplinary team and is responsible for delivering intensive in-home and community-based services to individuals living with severe mental illness, with treatment histories characterized by frequent psychiatric hospitalizations, emergency room visits, involvement with the criminal justice system, alcohol/substance use, and limited engagement in traditional outpatient services. Responsibilities
The Peer Specialist will play a vital role in outreach and engagement of clients on the ACT team. The Peer Specialist will use personal lived experience as a service recipient to serve as a role model, educate clients about self-help techniques and self-help group processes, teach effective coping strategies and symptom management skills, help clients develop daily living skills, assist in clarifying rehabilitation and recovery goals, and assist in developing community support systems and networks. The Peer Specialist engages clients in peer-based services to identify and overcome barriers to community integration, utilizing a peer relationship to foster connection, trust, understanding and validation with community providers and supports. The Peer Specialist will collaborate with ACT team members to ensure clients become linked and engaged with identified community providers and that their support network meets their needs. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Providing direct treatment and support services to clients with psychiatric diagnoses, co-occurring substance use, chronic physical health problems and complex social needs, including weekly visits. Assessing and providing direct services in health and wellness, housing, income support, education, vocational training, employment and social supports, medication support. Providing intensive emotional and practical support to clients, especially during transitions between settings or from hospital to community. Conducting home visits with individual sessions emphasizing prevention and preparation for independent community living and promoting optimum mental and emotional health; assisting with family and social relationships, stress and symptom management, activities of daily living, medication management, and housing readiness. Assisting and instructing clients in daily living skills such as personal hygiene, grooming, laundry, nutrition/meal preparation, budgeting, and socialization tasks. Community navigation including accompanying to first behavioral health and medical appointments, travel training, reengagement in community care, and referrals to services while identifying barriers to access. Making visits to hospitalized clients to coordinate care and advocating for hospitalized clients. Assisting in client wellness self-management groups, consumer advisory board meetings and other activities focused on education, health, wellness, smoking cessation and recovery. Developing short-term person-centered treatment plans to help clients achieve their goals.
The Peer Specialist is required to utilize technology and various web-based platforms for documenting progress notes and daily work activities. Ability to use equipment such as iPhones, tablets, Surface Pros and navigate various technology platforms and reporting systems is required. The role may include on-call after-hours crisis intervention services when needed to the client and their support network, including respite referrals and other diversion and stabilization services. Specifications for Education/Certifications/Licenses
High School Diploma or GED. OMH Peer Certification preferred. Specifications for Experience and Training
Completion of an internship or comparable training in peer advocacy. Experience in providing advocacy services to people who are mentally ill and/or homeless. Past or current recipient of mental health, substance services or homeless services preferred. History of mental illness and at least one year of symptom remission. Knowledge of mental illness and substance abuse disorders. Basic knowledge of treatment, rehabilitation, and community support programs as they relate to clients and their families. Basic knowledge of techniques for identifying risk, including crisis management techniques. A person who has developed their own recovery plan and has demonstrated relatively stable and successful management of their recovery. Ability to read and write in English. Knowledge of computer programs (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, & Outlook). Good communication skills. Knowledge of a second language is preferred (Spanish, Russian, Creole, Cantonese). We offer competitive salary and excellent benefits including generous time off, Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement Savings with Agency Match, Transit, life insurance and other additional voluntary benefits. EOE/AA. For more information on our organization, please visit our website at: www.ccbq.org
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