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Peer Specialist, Capital District Psychiatric Center - Schenectady, P27707
State of New York - Mental Health, Office of —Schenectady, NY
- $48,225 - $52,413 a year
- Full-time
- Background check
- Psychiatry
- Inpatient
- Paid holidays
- Health insurance
Peer Counselor- The Family Room
Ellis Medicine —Schenectady, NY
- $16.24 - $24.11 an hour
- Part-time
- HIPAA
- English
- Outpatient experience
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Certified Recovery Peer Advocate (CRPA)
Addictions Care Center of Albany, Inc —Albany, NY
- From $22 an hour
- Weekends as needed
- Mid-level
- Residential
- High school diploma or GED
- 403(b) matching
- Paid holidays
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Peer Advocate
Ellis Medicine —Schenectady, NY
- $16.24 - $24.11 an hour
- Part-time
- Computer literacy
- Mid-level
- High school diploma or GED
- Wellness program
- Paid holidays
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Peer-Program Manager
New York Council on Problem Gambling —Albany, NY
- $60,000 a year
- Weekends as needed
- Hybrid work
- Addiction Medicine
- Computer literacy
- Writing skills
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
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12d
Youth Peer Advocate, CTTP
NORTHEAST PARENT AND CHILD SOCIETY INC —Schenectady, NY
- $19 - $20 an hour
- Weekends as needed
- Bilingual
- HIPAA
- High school diploma or GED
- Continuing education credits
- Paid holidays
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Family Peer Advocate Community Based Clinical
ST ANNE INSTITUTE —Troy, NY
- $42,500 - $45,000 a year
- Full-time
- High school diploma or GED
- Driver's License
- Children
- Disability insurance
- Health insurance
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Family Peer Advocate, Residential
Northern Rivers Family of Services —Albany, NY
- $19 an hour
- Full-time
- Residential
- High school diploma or GED
- Driver's License
- Continuing education credits
- Paid holidays
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Peer Support Specialist (Req 100953)
Whitney M Young Jr Health Center —Albany, NY
- $16 - $18 an hour
- Customer service
- Mid-level
- Computer skills
- Commuter assistance
- Health insurance
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Certified Recovery Peer Advocate - Provisiona
Acacia Network —Albany, NY
- $21.92 an hour
- Full-time
- Spanish
- Microsoft Excel
- Writing skills
- Paid holidays
- Health insurance
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Family Peer Advocate
Vanderheyden Hall Inc —Troy, NY
- $22 an hour
- Full-time
- 18 years or older
- High school
- Writing skills
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Youth Peer Advocate
Vanderheyden Hall Inc —Troy, NY
- $20 an hour
- Full-time
- Microsoft Outlook
- High school
- Computer literacy
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Peer Specialist, Capital District Psychiatric Center - Schenectady, P27707

State of New York - Mental Health, Office of
Schenectady, NY

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Job Details

Full-time
$48,225 - $52,413 a year

Benefits

Paid holidays
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Paid time off
Vision insurance
Opportunities for advancement
Paid sick time

Qualifications

Patient interaction

Full Job Description

Duties Description As a Peer Specialist, you would provide direct mental health services to recipients in emergency, inpatient, outpatient, community support programs, and residential settings. You would serve as a role model for recipients and educate recipients about self-help techniques and self-help group process; teach them effective coping strategies, sometimes based on personal experience; assist them in clarifying their goals for rehabilitation and recovery; and help them to develop support systems.

As a Peer Specialist, you would perform a range of tasks designed to assist recipients in regaining personal control over their lives and over their own recovery processes. Your tasks would focus on facilitating the development of self-help skills, support systems, coping strategies, and the increased hope and self-esteem that are central to recovery from a psychiatric disability.

Preferred qualifications:

Lived mental health experience from first-hand, personal knowledge and understanding gained from directly navigating and receiving services and/or supports as an element of their recovery.
Experience as a peer advocate in the mental health system

Minimum Qualifications Candidates must have demonstrated interpersonal communications skills and the ability to empathize with, relate to and effectively work with recipients of mental health services AND two years of active participation in mental health self-help activities, peer support or peer advocacy programs, or recipient run organizations or similar experiences or programs.

Additional Comments All OMH employees receive a generous benefits package including:

NYS medical, dental, & vision insurance
Access to tuition assistance programs
Excellent opportunities for advancement & professional growth
Paid time off – 13 paid vacation days in the first year, 5 paid personal days, 13 paid holidays, & paid sick leave
NYS Retirement programs

Background checks will be required.

Posted hiring rate includes the sum of the statutory hiring rate for CSEA Grade 09 ($42,641) and Increase Hiring Rate ($5,584).

Notes:
In order to be eligible for appointment and to maintain employment, you cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program). If you are appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program), you may be terminated from your employment.

If appointed you may be required to become an enrolled Medicare provider; obtain and provide to your employer a National Provider Identifier (NPI) number issued by the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES); and otherwise actively participate to the degree necessary to allow for your services to be billed through Medicare and Medicaid. If you are appointed and you lose the ability to bill through Medicare and Medicaid, you may be terminated from your employment.

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peer advocate jobs in albany, ny

Peer Specialist, Capital District Psychiatric Center - Schenectady, P27707

Peer Counselor- The Family Room

Certified Recovery Peer Advocate (CRPA)

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Peer-Program Manager

Youth Peer Advocate, CTTP

Family Peer Advocate Community Based Clinical

Family Peer Advocate, Residential

Peer Support Specialist (Req 100953)

Certified Recovery Peer Advocate - Provisiona

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