Peer Counselor - Bilingual Proficiency in Spanish or Mandarin/Cantonese Preferre

Overview

Position Summary: We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Peer Counselor - Bilingual Proficiency in Spanish Preferred - Brooklyn.

OnTrackNY Program

OnTrackNY is an innovative treatment program that serves adolescents and young adults with psychosis. The Peer Specialist will work as part of the OnTrackNY team with program participants, families and community members, and all other team members. The Peer Specialist serves a unique role on the team, instilling hope in participants and families by drawing on their own lived experience of overcoming challenges with a psychiatric label. The Peer Specialist uses a non-clinical approach to support, empower, and advocate for young people as they contend with the difficulties and uncertainties of early psychosis. The Peer Specialist uses their lived experience and unique perspective to contribute to treatment planning for each participant, remaining youth-driven and facilitating the team\'s development and maintenance of a culture of respect and shared decision making. The Peer Specialist can provide an essential framework for highlighting the potential that each participant has for achieving a successful recovery trajectory. In addition to attending team meetings, Peer Specialists work directly with other team members to provide support and assistance to program participants. Under the supervision of the OnTrackNY Team Leader, they provide direct peer support services to program participants in any setting that would be helpful at the OnTrackNY program site, in the community, or in the hospital.

Responsibilities

• Outreach & Engagement: Connecting with both the community and participants and families about OnTrackNY and offering hope and support around the possibility of recovery
• Relationship Building: Forming meaningful partnerships with program participants
• Embracing Creative Narratives: Expanding the understandings of the experience of First Episode Psychosis
• Co-Creating Tools for Success: Partnering with participants and families to support development and creation of self-care and self-awareness tools
• Supporting and Partnering with Families: Working closely with a participant’s family of choice
• Making OnTrackNY Better: Supporting the growth and development of OnTrackNY through creation and support of a feedback loop between participants and the team
• Bridge Building: Connecting participants and their families to needed community-based supports
• Group Facilitation: Creating spaces and opportunities for participants to learn together and support one another
• Community Mapping: Learning about and connecting to community-based supports and resources
• Influencing Team Culture: Utilizing lived experience and non-clinical approach to support the understandings of team members
• Team Communication & Collaboration: Working as an essential member of a multi-disciplinary team, documenting interactions collaboratively and communicating back to the team
• Ongoing Professional Development: Continuing to develop and hone skills to support this work

Minimum Qualifications

To qualify you must have a New York State certification as a Peer Specialist or the ability to obtain certification within one year of hire. Demonstrated interpersonal communications skills and the ability to empathize with, relate to, and effectively work with participants of mental health services. Active participation in mental health self-help activities, peer support, peer advocacy programs, participant-run organizations, or similar experiences. Willingness to work outside of office settings, in the community and homes of participants. Excellent judgment and ability to understand boundaries when working with participants of mental health services.

Preferred Qualifications

Bilingual proficiency in Spanish, Mandarin or Cantonese is preferred.

Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.

Family Health Centers at NYU Langone provides its staff with a comprehensive benefits and wellness package. The benefits and wellness package includes a wide range of resources to support employees and their families.

Equal Opportunity

Family Health Centers at NYU Langone is an equal opportunity employer and committed to inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration. We require applications to be completed online. View Know Your Rights: Workplace discrimination is illegal.

Salary and Pay Transparency

NYU Langone Health provides a salary range to comply with the New York state Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $41,137.15 - $42,000.00 annually. Actual salaries depend on experience, specialty, education, and hospital need. The range listed does not include bonuses, incentives, differential pay, or other forms of compensation or benefits. To view the Pay Transparency Notice, please click here.