Peer Specialist

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Peer Specialist

Position Title: Peer Specialist

Work Schedule: Full-time, in person and community-based. Typical hours are 9:00 am-5:00 pm. The schedule may be modified based on program needs.
Salary: $70,000 annually
Reports To: ACT Team Leader

Program Overview

Assertive Community Treatment represents an evidence-based, recovery-driven service model tailored for individuals living with severe mental health conditions who require alternatives to clinic-based care. Operating via a mobile, interdisciplinary team, the initiative delivers holistic clinical intervention, skill restoration, service coordination, and continuous community-based care.

Position Summary

The Peer Specialist is a required member of the ACT multidisciplinary team who provides nonclinical, recovery-oriented support grounded in personal lived experience. The Peer Specialist uses intentional self-disclosure, advocacy, and shared decision-making to promote hope, self-advocacy, wellness, and successful community integration.

Essential Functions

• Provide individualized peer support, mentoring, recovery education, and wellness coaching grounded in lived experience.
• Use intentional self-disclosure appropriately to build trust and support individuals in pursuing personally meaningful recovery goals.
• Assist individuals in developing wellness strategies, coping skills, natural supports, community connections, and self-advocacy.
• Provide outreach and services in individuals’ homes and other community settings.
• Assist individuals transitioning from correctional, hospital, shelter, or residential settings through pre-release engagement, discharge planning, and warm handoffs.
• Support engagement with behavioral health services, peer supports, housing, benefits, employment, education, and other community resources.
• Advocate for individuals navigating behavioral health, criminal justice, and community service systems.
• Utilize harm-reduction, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and recovery-oriented practices.
• Participate in the ACT shared-caseload model, daily team meetings, person-centered service planning, crisis planning, case conferences, supervision, training, and quality-improvement activities.
• Maintain timely and accurate documentation in accordance with agency, Medicaid, and NYS OMH requirements.
• Travel throughout the program’s service area to provide community-based services.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Personal lived experience of recovery from a behavioral health condition required.
• Personal involvement with the criminal justice system or experience supporting justice-involved individuals preferred.
• Willingness and ability to use intentional self-disclosure appropriately in support of others’ recovery.
• Understanding of peer-support values, professional boundaries, self-determination, and individual choice.
• Ability to work independently in community settings and collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Required Certification

• Current New York Certified Peer Specialist (NYCPS) or NYCPS-Provisional credential required.
• Must maintain the credential in active status throughout employment.

BENEFITS WE OFFER:

• Medical including Dental and Vision
• Cafeteria Plans: FSA, Dependent child care plan, qualified transportation plan
• Up to 3% 401k Profit Sharing plan automatic contribution for eligible employees
• 401k Additional 4% match of your contribution from your salary
• Employee Assistance Program Services (EAP)
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Referral Bonus for qualifying positions

Interborough is an EEO employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veterans’ status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state and/or local law and encourage women, veterans and other minorities to apply.

Interborough Developmental and Consultation Center is committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) in the workplace. We believe that DEIB is integral to every community.

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Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $70,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

License/Certification:

• NY Certified Peer Specialist (NYCPS) or NYCPS-Provisional (Required)

Willingness to travel:

• 75% (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $70,000