Peer Specialist - Peer Run Recovery Center East
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Job Description
To Advocate. To Educate. To Empower. Together. Salary: $20.51 per hour, nonexempt position Hours: 18.75 hours/week, including scheduled evening and Saturday hours Location: Riverhead, NY and travel throughout Suffolk County Availability: Immediate Position Description MHAW's Recovery Center East Peer Specialist is a trained peer specialist who has their own lived experience with a psychiatric diagnosis, substance abuse, trauma and/or experiences as a person who has in the past or is now using mental health services. Peer specialists establish positive, strength-based, inspiring supportive relationships with a variety of people. This is not a clinical position, as it is reserved for a trained Peer Specialist who draws on lived experience to support and promote recovery. Responsibilities and tasks will include, but are not limited to: Responsibilities Provide individualized support and coaching to people who have been affected by being given a psychiatric diagnosis, substance use...