Peer Specialist
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**Employment Type:**Part time**Shift:**Day Shift**Description:****Peer Specialist****Samaritan Hospital - Outpatient Clinic**Here at Samaritan Hospital, an affiliate of St. Peter's Health Partners, we care for more people in more places than one.**Position Highlights:**Quality of Life: Where career opportunities and quality of life converge.Advancement: Strong orientation program, generous tuition allowance and career development.**What you will do:**The primary function of an OMH New York Certified Peer Specialist is facilitating outreach with individuals currently in an outpatient mental health program and supporting sustained engagement with a multidisciplinary team of treatment providers. They provide non-clinical services designed to support the individual from the unique perspective of someone who shares similar experiences. Certified Peer Specialists draw from personal lived experience of psychiatric illness as well as professional training. While not clinical in nature, the role of the peer specialist is critical in supporting individual informed decision making around treatment options that lead to individual/family driven outcomes. The Certified Peer Specialist will serve as a role model, mentor, advocate and motivator to individuals in order to improve their ability to manage continuing health and wellness, enhance engagement in care, increase their level of empowerment. prevent psychiatric or substance use disorder relapse and promote long term recovery. The Certified Peer Specialist must demonstrate an ability to share personal recovery experiences and to develop authentic peer-to-peer relationships within the framework of the NYCPS code of conduct.**Responsibilities:**+ Teach individuals self-advocacy, self-efficacy, and empowerment skills.+ Support engagement in treatment, bridging treatment gaps, and providing community transition support.+ Provide access to peer recovery supports based on their knowledge of local resources and provide peer counseling.+ Aid community connections, provide linkage with natural supports/transitional supports.+ Provide pre-crisis and crisis support services as needed in consultation with the identified treatment team.+ Facilitate/explore peer-led support groups on client identified topics.+ Connect individuals to community-based recovery supports consistent with treatment, recovery, and discharge plans.+ Non-clinical crisis support, especially after periods of hospitalization or incarceration.+ Educating program participants about various modes of recovery.+ Accompanying clients to medical or community appointments.+ Raising awareness of existing social and other support services.+ Linking participants to formal recovery supports.+ Assisting with applying for benefits.**What you will need:**+ High School Diploma/GED Required.+ Valid OMH New York Certified Peer Specialist (NYCPS)Pay Range: $20.95 - $32.47Pay is based on experience, skills, and education. Exempt positions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) will be paid within the base salary equivalent of the stated hourly rates. The pay range may also vary within the stated range based on location.**Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic healthcare systems in the nation. Built on the foundation of our Mission and Core Values, we integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do. Our colleagues have different lived experiences, customs, abilities, and talents. Together, we become our best selves. A diverse and inclusive workforce provides the most accessible and equitable care for those we serve. Trinity Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by law.Our Commitment to Diversity and InclusionTrinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.EOE including disability/veteran