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Peer Support Worker

Vocational Instruction Project Community Services · NY

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Description POSITION SUMMARY: The Peer Support Worker uses lived experience to conduct community outreach, re-engage individuals at risk of loss to contact, ensure next-day clinic follow-up after mobile initiation, and resolve barriers to care. Peer Support Workers support engagement and retention but do not independently administer Contingency Management incentives. POSITION DESCRIPTION:

  • Conduct community outreach and engagement in the catchment area to reach
  • individuals not yet in care.
  • Provide lived-experience support and actively re-engage individuals at risk of
  • disengagement.
  • Ensure next-day clinic follow-up after mobile initiation and help resolve barriers such as
  • transportation and Medicaid enrollment.
  • Accompany and support individuals in navigating clinic-based and community services.
  • Support, but do not independently administer, Contingency Management incentives.
  • Maintain documentation of outreach and follow-up contacts in the electronic health record.
  • Reports to Project Director / Licensed Mental Health Practitioner Requirements JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
  • New York State Certified Recovery Peer Advocate (CRPA or CRPA-P) at hire, or
  • obtained within Year 1 with VIP support.
  • Lived experience of recovery and the ability to engage individuals with empathy and
  • professionalism.
  • Experience with MOUD or opioid use disorder populations preferred.
  • Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred; flexible schedule including early mornings and
  • weekends. JOB SETTING:
  • Office, community, and field-based setting; travels to community locations.
  • Periodically functions within a thirty (30) foot motorized Mobile Medication Unit.
  • Flexible schedule including early mornings and weekends. WE ASK ALL EMPLOYEES TO BE COVID VACCINATED.
Apply: Peer Support Worker at Vocational Instruction Project Community Services