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- ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide peer support services to consumers with HIV/AIDS, homelessness, mental health, and substance use.
- Drawing from lived experience, Peer Specialist will engage clients through outreach, appointment accompaniment, and wellness coaching, helping to reduce stigma and foster trust.
- Responsible in supporting medication adherence, facilitating linkage to medical and behavioral health services, and promoting self-management and empowerment.
- Accompany consumers to all primary care, specialty care and other health care appointments. Accompany consumers to other social service appointments as warranted.
- Provide critical feedback to the other members of the health care team based on observations in the field.
- Record all service provision on Field Logs (or “mappings”) for submission to the Data Entry Specialist on a daily basis.
- Facilitate groups for CCR consumers.
- Document all services in AWARDS Case Management Software.
- Collect and record Primary Care Status Measures data as assigned.
- Participate in daily planning meetings with SRO Intervention Project Team. Periodic participation in team meetings, case conferences, division meetings and training as required
- Participates in Services for the Underserved Quality Assurance/ Quality Improvement activities
- Reports to the Program Director in the absence of the CCR Supervisor.
- Minimum 80% field work in the community
Qualifications
REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
· Minimum High School Diploma or GED.- Certification by the NYS AIDS Peer Work Certification Program.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS
· Bi-lingual Spanish encouraged. Experience working within an outreach model or case management preferred. · Basic computer skills (e.g. MS Office suite and Windows)Company OverviewS:US IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
Join a team of employees who care about the wellbeing of others. We believe in fostering a culture built on our core values: respect, integrity, support, maximizing individual potential and continuous quality improvement. From health and wellness resources to generous PTO, professional development, and more, explore all that we offer on our Benefits Page and see how S:US invests in you.
We believe in fostering a culture built on our core values: respect, integrity, support, maximizing individual potential and continuous quality improvement.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information and including all other statuses protected by Federal, State and Local laws. S:US is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities, including allowance of the use of services animals. To request reasonable accommodation or if you believe such a request was improperly handled or denied, contact the Leave Team at [email protected].
ID2026-18865 Work LocationIn PersonSkills Required
- High school diploma or GED
- Certification by the NYS AIDS Peer Work Certification Program
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Experience working with people living with AIDS, homeless people, or substance users
- Bilingual Spanish
- Experience working within an outreach model or case management
- Basic computer skills, including Microsoft Office and Windows
What We Do
Services for the UnderServed (S:US) is a New York nonprofit human-services organization serving people with disabilities, people in poverty, and people facing homelessness. It creates pathways to rich and productive lives through housing, employment, skills-building, treatment, rehabilitation and recovery services. S:US works with tens of thousands of individuals and their families across New York City and Long Island each year.
