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Overnight Peer Specialist utilizes personal experience and respite training to provide peer support and companionship for guests. The Overnight Peer Specialists manifest, in their presence and actions, a vision of hope, resilience, opportunity, and wellness. Goals include lessening/alleviating emotional distress and crises, lessening use of emergency rooms and hospitals, and increasing personal growth with positive life choices.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Provide supportive companionship for guests throughout their visit to house (interview, intake, arrival, stay and departure).
- Share personal recovery to encourage hope, wellness, personal growth and recovery.
- Model and support the belief that individuals can and will do better.
- Utilize effective engagement skills to connect, use mutually shared insights to encourage problem solving and utilization of tools that will assist in lessening or alleviating current and future crisis.
- Non-judgmental active listening designed to meet individual "where they are at".
- Help maintain a clean, safe, and secure environment. Some cleaning may be involved.
- Provide telephone support to peers in the community though our Consumer Phone Link Program as needed.
- Facilitate self-help, support groups.
- Keep accurate and timely records
- Work cooperatively with respite team.
- Maintains client confidentiality.
Requirements
Education & Experience
- High School Diploma
- Six months to one year current or recent employment.
- Six months to one year part time or full time experience in delivery of direct services to mental health consumer/survivors (volunteer or paid), preferred.
- Three months first hand experience in self-help or peer directed services and/or peer support groups, preferred.
- Completion of Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) training preferred.
- NYCPS-P Certification Preferred
Other Qualifications
- Lived, experience and willingness to utilize personal experience to assist others in recovery.
- Good oral and written communication skills.
- Basic knowledge of community support services/resources/mental health service delivery system, preferred.
- Knowledge of consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement and peer run or peer driven services that incorporate recovery based philosophies.
- Ability to relate to both other survivors of mental illness and psychiatric diagnosis and mental health professionals.
- Honesty, respect for diversity, high personal standards, professional demeanor, language and behaviors reflecting such values.
- Commitment to the possibility of recovery for all individuals diagnosed with psychiatric illness.
- Emotional resilience to cope with strong emotions on an on-going basis.
- Valid and "clean" New York State Driver's License, preferred.
Salary Description
$17 per hour
