Marketing Statement

NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi is a 457-bed teaching hospital affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The facility has earned numerous Center of Excellence designations, accreditation, and recognition for its renowned Level 1 Trauma Center, Burn Center, Surgical Intensive Care Unit, regional Stroke Center, Snakebite Treatment Center, Breast Health Center, Bariatric Surgery Center, and Cancer Service. The facility also offers the region’s only multi-person hyperbaric chamber, allowing up to nine patients to dive together at one time. Jacobi’s Ambulatory Care Pavilion is a stunning complement to its inpatient acute care, allowing staff to provide patients with high-quality service in a modern, state-of-the-art environment.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

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Job Description

Purpose of Position:

Under Supervision, Peer Counselors

• Provide direct peer recovery services to behavioral health consumers in a fast-paced work environment
• Works in close collaboration with staff, consumers and other caregivers in planning and implementing recovery plans.
• Empowers peers to advocate for themselves, resolve issues or problems and plan for their futures by serving as a role model.
  
  

Roles And Responsibilities

• Support patients during their recovery journey, reassuring them about the recovery' process and how acute distress is addressed.
• Provides orientation and support to patients, collaterals and their identified support system.
• Helps patients to understand their role in their own recovery process through peer led groups.
• Uses personal experience as a recipient of behavioral health services (including co-occurring/substance use background) in role-modeling recovery and providing hope for other recipients.
• Assists patients in seeking clarification about the treatment and recovery process.
• Assists the patient in recovery planning, identifying their own individual warning signs of relapse and identifying and developing individual coping strategies.
• Engages patients and helps motivate them to enter treatment and engage with care coordination.
• Provides motivation to address ambivalence about change using basic motivational interviewing techniques.
• Engages in harm reduction techniques and conducts overdose prevention trainings with patients and families, by direction of clinical staff, including naloxone distribution.
• Clarifies issues for the patient and assists with the process of referral for treatment, rehabilitation, housing and supportive services. Follows-up to determine whether services were provided and used.
• Conducts follow-up with patients post discharge.
• Conducts outreach and connection to services post discharge, including continuing care services.
• Assists with patient documentation, tracking, and follow up.
• Works with substance use treatment team to facilitate engagement with clinic services.
• Collaborates with staff in maintaining appropriate documentation.
• Participates in supervision, department staff meetings, ongoing peer recovery training, education, and performance support.
• Receives supervision and support from substance use treatment program and administrative leadership. In addition, receives task supervision from team leads with whom they work on other services,
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

Assignment Level I

For Assignments In Comprehensive Emergency Psychiatric Programs (CPEPs)

• Certification, which must be maintained for the assignment’s duration, as a
• Peer Specialist (NYCPS) or Peer Specialist-Provisional (NYCPS-P) issued by the New York Peer Specialist Certification Board (NYPSCB); or
• Recovery Peer Advocate (CRPA) or Recovery Peer Advocate-Provisional (CRPA-P) issued by the New York Certification Board (ASAP-NYCB); or
• Credentialed Family Peer Advocate (FPA-C), Credentialed Family Peer Advocate Provisional (FPA-P), Credentialed Youth Peer Advocate (YPA-C), or Credentialed Youth Peer Advocate Provisional (YPA-P) issued by Families Together in New York State; and
• Satisfactory and documented completion of a formalized Peer Advocate/Counselor/Specialist Training Program or one (1) year of full-time satisfactory experience working with consumers of CPEP services as a peer counselor/specialist, peer advocate or in related human services.
  
  

For Substance Use Assignments

• Certification, which must be maintained for the assignment’s duration, as a Recovery Peer Advocate (CRPA) or Recovery Peer Advocate-Provisional (CRPA-P) issued by the New York Certification Board (ASAP-NYCB); and
• Satisfactory and documented completion of a formalized Peer Advocate/Counselor/Specialist Training Program or one (1) year of full-time satisfactory experience working with consumers of substance use disorder services as a peer counselor/specialist, peer advocate or in related human services.
  
  

For All Other Mental Health Assignments

• Certification, which must be maintained for the assignment’s duration, as a Peer Specialist (NYCPS) or Peer Specialist-Provisional (NYCPS-P) issued by the New York Peer Specialist Certification Board (NYPSCB); and
• Satisfactory and documented completion of a formalized Peer Advocate/Counselor/Specialist Training Program or one (1) year of full-time satisfactory experience working with consumers of mental health services as a peer counselor/specialist, peer advocate or in related human services.
  
  

Qualification Requirements (Continued)

For All Other Assignments (Including Breastfeeding Education Assignments):

• Satisfactory and documented completion of a formalized Peer Advocate/Counselor/Specialist Training Program or one (1) year of full-time satisfactory experience working with consumers of peer services as a peer counselor/specialist, peer advocate or in related human services; and
• A High school diploma or its educational equivalent.
  
  

Department Preferences

Tour: Rotating

How To Apply

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NYC Health and Hospitals offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

• Comprehensive Health Benefits for employees hired to work 20+ hrs. per week
• Retirement Savings and Pension Plans
• Loan Forgiveness Programs for eligible employees
• Paid Holidays and Vacation in accordance with employees' Collectively bargained contracts
• College tuition discounts and professional development opportunities
• Multiple employee discounts programs