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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
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Athena —Albany, NY
- $45,000 - $50,000 a year
- Full-time
- Spanish
- Computer literacy
- Office
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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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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.

Some positions may require additional credentials or a background check to verify your identity.

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