Peer Counselor Bilingual Proficiency in Spanish or MandarinCantonese Brooklyn

Overview

Family Health Centers at NYU Langone, a designated Level 3 Medical Home, is the largest federally qualified health center network in New York State, and the second largest in the nation. It includes eight primary care sites, 40 school-based health centers and dental clinics, four day care centers, the nation s largest dental residency program, and New York State s largest behavioral health program.

The network also includes 12 community medicine sites providing care to disenfranchised New Yorkers, comprehensive HIV services, chemical dependency programs, and a family support center that offers educational, vocational, and other social support programs. At NYU Langone Health, equity and inclusion are fundamental values. We strive to be a place where our exceptionally talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive.

We embrace inclusion and individual skills, ideas, and knowledge.

Position Summary:

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Peer Counselor - Bilingual Proficiency in Spanish Preferred - Brooklyn.

OnTrack

NY is an innovative treatment program that serves adolescents and young adults with psychosis. The Peer Specialist will work as part of the OnTrack

NY team with program participants, family and community members, and all other team members. The Peer Specialist serves a unique role on the team, instilling hope in participants and families by drawing on their own lived experience of overcoming challenges with a psychiatric label. Walking alongside participants on their recovery journeys, the Peer Specialist uses a non-clinical approach to support, empower, and advocate for young people as they contend with the difficulties and uncertainties of early psychosis.

The Peer Specialist uses their lived experience and unique perspective to contribute to treatment planning for each participant, remaining youth-driven and facilitating the teams development and maintenance of a culture of respect and shared decision making. The Peer Specialist can provide an essential framework for highlighting the potential that each participant has for achieving a successful recovery trajectory. In addition to attending team meetings, Peer Specialists work directly with other team members to provide support and assistance to program participants.

Under the supervision of the OnTrack

NY Team Leader, they provide direct peer support services to program participants in any setting that would be helpful at the OnTrack

NY program site, in the community, or in the hospital.

• Outreach & Engagement:
  Connecting with both the community and participants and families about OnTrack
  
  NY and offering hope and support around the possibility of recovery
• Relationship Building:
  Forming meaningful partnerships with program participants
• Embracing Creative Narratives:
  Expanding the understandings of the experience of “First Episode Psychosis”
• Co-Creating Tools for Success:
  Partnering with participants and families to support development and creation of self-care and self-awareness tools
• Supporting and Partnering with Families:
  Working closely with a participant’s family of choice
• Making OnTrack
  
  NY Better:
  Supporting the growth and development of OnTrack
  
  NY through creation and support of a feedback loop between participants and the team
• Bridge Building:
  Connecting participants and their families to needed community-based supports
• Group Facilitation:
  Creating spaces and opportunities for participants to learn together and support one another
• Community Mapping:
  Learning about and connecting to community-based supports and resources
• Influencing Team Culture:
  Utilizing lived experience and non-clinical approach to support the understandings of team members
• Team Communication &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Working as an essential member of a multi-disciplinary team, documenting their interactions collaboratively and communicating back to the team
• Ongoing Professional Development:
  Continuing to develop and hone skills to support this work

To qualify you must have a NYS certification as a Peer Specialist or an ability to obtain certification within one year of hire.…