Job Title: Senior Peer Specialist

Job Summary:                

The Senior Peer Specialist at CASES plays a vital role in supporting individuals involved in the criminal justice system by providing person-centered care and collaborating closely with clients and care management teams. The Senior Peer Specialist focuses on assisting clients with goal planning, identifying immediate needs, and recommending treatment objectives based on each individual’s unique circumstances, including housing, education, employment, and behavioral health. Senior Peer Specialists employ a variety of recovery-oriented and trauma-informed approaches, such as motivational interviewing, to empower clients and promote their long-term well-being. They also facilitate connections to community resources and provide mobile outreach, crisis intervention, and wellness support, ensuring continuity of care even when clients disengage from services. By acting as both an advocate and a liaison, the Senior Peer Specialist ensures clients receive the comprehensive support necessary for their recovery and successful reintegration into society.

Shift Hours: This position is full-time Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Salary: The salary for this role is $58,000 per year.

Location Address: 2090 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10027. Our office is easily accessible by public transportation.  

Workplace Flexibility: Flexible - Staff have flexibility to complete their work day from home or another suitable space, typically after reporting to the office and/or engaging in field or community-based work.0

What You Will Be Doing:

Assist clients with person-centered goal planning.Collaborate with client and care management team to identify the services clients should receive based on stage of change, immediate needs, and recommended treatment objectives.Assess and provide services to clients to address housing, income support, education and vocational training, social supports, employment, and primary care needs.Assist clients with linkages to and systems navigation within the behavioral health, human services, and criminal justice systems as appropriate.Act as an advocate and liaison for clients in accessing resources to support service plan goalsUse motivational interviewing, recovery, and trauma-informed approaches when delivering peer servicesInvolve family and significant others in the client’s treatment with the team.Provide individual peer support, wellness counseling, harm reduction counseling based on motivational interviewing.Complete Wellness Recovery Action Plans (WRAP), safety, crisis intervention, and relapse prevention plans.Conduct mobile outreach to clients who unexpectedly disengage from clinic services.Provide telemental health services to incarcerated persons pending release that will be connected to clinic services for engagement of services.Provide 24-hour crisis intervention on-call services on a rotating basis.Provide culturally competent services in accordance with CASES policies and practice.

 

What We Are Looking For:  

High school diploma.Must have NYS Peer Certification and in good standing or equivalent  .At least 18 months of work experience providing peer support to individuals with serious mental illness and criminal justice involvement.Graduate of a recognized peer specialist training program such as the Howie the Harp Peer Advocacy and Training Center Peer Specialist Program.Lived experience using mental health and/or substance use treatment services.Individuals with previous criminal justice experience are encouraged to apply.Proficiency with computer and electronic and health records.

 Preferred Skills: 

Fluency in Spanish.

Employee Benefits:  

CASES cares about employee wellbeing, and we offer a comprehensive benefits package to support you and your family, including:  

Medical Dental Vision Vacation and Paid Time Off – starting at 25 days-off annually12 Paid Holidays per yearRetirement 403b Competitive matching up to 6%Employee Referral ProgramVisit www.cases.org/careers/ to learn more about benefits offered by the CASES 

  

Although we would love to learn about the skills of every candidate, only selected candidates that are selected will receive a response. We encourage you to apply for any position you feel you are qualified for.   

  

CASES is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment with CASES is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position without regard to race, color, ethnic or national origin, age, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital, military, or citizenship status. We also actively recruit individuals with prior involvement in the criminal legal system.

Monday - Friday from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
35 Hours Per Week