Peer Support Worker

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.

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