Peer Specialist

15 hours ago


New York, New York, United States PRIDE Healthcare Full time
Job Summary

Pride Health is seeking a highly skilled Peer Specialist to join our team in Brooklyn. As a Peer Specialist, you will work closely with individuals and families to provide support and guidance in their mental health journey.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Facilitate engagement with teams by building strong relationships with participants and families.
  • Conduct outreach activities to promote community awareness of available services and encourage help-seeking.
  • Develop authentic relationships with individuals and families through empathy, sharing experiences, and listening.
  • Discuss multiple frameworks for understanding life experiences such as psychosis.
  • Listen to, understand, and make space for complex personal stories of recovery and resilience.
  • Advocate with and for participants on the team and in larger community.
  • Collaborate with participants to clarify personal visions and develop wellness toolkits.
  • Support participants in strengthening self-awareness, building life skills, and connecting to resources and community outside of the team.
  • Promote a youth-friendly approach and use recovery-oriented language to positively influence team culture.
  • Operate from the belief in human potential to grow.
  • Maintain open and frequent communication with the team, reporting safety and other concerns as necessary.
  • Document notes from visits with participants.

Requirements:

  • Peer Certification required (CPS, CRPA, Provisional certification).
  • Minimum High School Diploma/GED required.
  • Ability to utilize MS Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
  • Experience working in behavioral/mental health field required.
  • Experience with self-help activities, peer support, or peer advocacy programs required.
  • Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
  • Ability to document and translate participant needs with trauma-informed and culturally competent lens.
  • Lived experience with mental health challenges preferred, not required.
  • Ability to relate well with young people experiencing mental health challenges.
  • Understanding of the community & available community resources.
  • Bilingual English/Spanish preferred.

Pay: $22.00 – 23.00/hour

Schedule: 40 hours per week, 8-hour shifts (schedule discussed during interview)

*Contract starts at 13 weeks, high potential for extension/permanent conversion.

About Pride Health

Pride Health is a leading minority-owned healthcare recruitment & staffing firm that offers highly customized business process solutions at cost-effective prices.

Headquartered in New York City as a top minority supplier, PRIDE Health offers a broad geographic reach with offices throughout the U.S., India, and Brazil. Leveraging more than 20 years of experience, PRIDE has enhanced its core competency of IT staffing services by creating client-centric, cost-effective IT, and business process solutions. PRIDE serves Client-Partners in the healthcare, IT, financial services, retail and insurance industries offering both Direct Hire and Temporary Staff of Healthcare Professionals, Vendor Management Systems, IT Hardware Procurement Services, and Business Processing Outsourcing.

Temporary, Contract, Per Diem & Direct Hire staffing solutions are only part of what we can offer our clients.


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