Senior Peer Specialist

Job Title: Senior Peer Specialist

Job Summary

CASES is seeking a compassionate and experienced Senior Peer Specialist to join our Rapid Response team in providing community-based services to individuals living with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED), Serious Mental Illness (SMI), and Co-Occurring Disorders (CODs). As a Senior Peer Specialist, you will play a critical role in promoting recovery, linkage to care, and crisis intervention for our clients.

The Rapid Response Team (RRT) is a specialized team that provides immediate support and intervention to individuals with urgent behavioral health needs who are participating in the Mobile Services Response Program (MSRP). Our team's primary goal is to rapidly engage individuals in treatment and connect them with community-based stabilization and support services, ensuring a seamless transition to ongoing care.

Shift Hours

• This position is full-time
• Monday -
• Friday from 10:00
• AM - 6:00 PM

Salary: The salary for the Senior Peer Specialist role is $58,000

Location Address

200 Centre Street, New York, N.Y. Our office is easily accessible by public transportation.

Workplace Flexibility

Onsite - (for roles that are 100% in-office/in-person).

What You Will Be Doing

• Primarily serve a focus population of CLS-involved individuals living with SED, SMI, and CODs, with an emphasis on residents of Central, East, and West Harlem; the South Bronx; and Washington Heights/Inwood.
• Work as part of multidisciplinary team providing primarily in- person services to individuals, families, and groups in their community settings to 1) promote linkage to and engagement/re-engagement in ongoing outpatient mental health treatment and integrated rehabilitative services and 2) crisis counseling and intervention for clients experiencing acute crisis.
• Partner with Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner in providing crisis stabilization/de- escalation/containment in a team approach, including to reduce client distress and promote relief from and resolution of acute crisis.
• Leverage lived experience and Peer Specialist training and experience to build relationships with clients and their networks of support and support the person's recovery, including through follow-up engagement both in-person and via telehealth.