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Description
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Peer Support Worker uses lived experience to conduct community outreach, re-engage
individuals at risk of loss to contact, ensure next-day clinic follow-up after mobile initiation, and
resolve barriers to care. Peer Support Workers support engagement and retention but do not
independently administer Contingency Management incentives.
POSITION DESCRIPTION:
- Conduct community outreach and engagement in the catchment area to reach
- individuals not yet in care.
- Provide lived-experience support and actively re-engage individuals at risk of
- disengagement.
- Ensure next-day clinic follow-up after mobile initiation and help resolve barriers such as
- transportation and Medicaid enrollment.
- Accompany and support individuals in navigating clinic-based and community services.
- Support, but do not independently administer, Contingency Management incentives.
- Maintain documentation of outreach and follow-up contacts in the electronic health record.
- Reports to Project Director / Licensed Mental Health Practitioner
Requirements
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
- New York State Certified Recovery Peer Advocate (CRPA or CRPA-P) at hire, or
- obtained within Year 1 with VIP support.
- Lived experience of recovery and the ability to engage individuals with empathy and
- professionalism.
- Experience with MOUD or opioid use disorder populations preferred.
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred; flexible schedule including early mornings and
- weekends.
JOB SETTING:
- Office, community, and field-based setting; travels to community locations.
- Periodically functions within a thirty (30) foot motorized Mobile Medication Unit.
- Flexible schedule including early mornings and weekends.
WE ASK ALL EMPLOYEES TO BE COVID VACCINATED.
Salary Description
$45,000 Yearly