Minimum Qualifications Non-Competitive : current certification as an NYCPS by the NYPSCB and two years of post-certification experience as an NYCPS.
Duties Description As a Certified Peer Specialist 2 you Serves as a role model and provides advocacy and support services to individuals.
- Assists individuals in identifying, developing, and practicing personalized coping and crisis management skills to deal with their psychiatric symptoms.
- Interacts with individuals as a peer and shares common experiences; and assists individuals in identifying areas in which they need support.
- Organizes and facilitates self-help groups and activities; teaches self-help techniques and group process skills; and facilitates the establishment of peer, natural, and social support networks.
- Helps individuals carry out tasks defined in their treatment plans, and actively participate in their treatment planning process.
- Instructs and assists individuals in identifying or clarifying rehabilitation and recovery goals, and in developing daily living, educational, social, vocational, and other skills for empowerment and successful community living.
- Assists individuals in understanding and obtaining access to available community resources and benefits; provides information;
and links individuals to essential supports, such as legal, housing, education, medical, and financial services.
- Advocates for the needs of individuals; and provides education and training on their perspectives to other mental health and human service providers.
- May mentor and train non-certified Peer Specialists. Certified Peer Specialist 2 In addition to performing any of the above duties, performs the full range of supervisory duties for lower-level Peer Specialists;
plans, develops, implements, and evaluates peer programs and services; and serves as the discipline head for Peer Services.
30+ days ago