Provide peer counseling and advocacy to men, women and children who receive psychiatric services at BronxCare Health System. Contribute to the delivery of high-quality care under the direct supervision of a licensed behavioral health professional.
Establishes and maintains positive relationships with patients, visitors, and other employees. Interacts professionally, courteously, and appropriately with patients, visitors and other employees. Behaves in a manner consistent with maintaining and furthering a positive public perception of BronxCare Health System and its employee.
- Contributes to and participates in the Performance/Quality Improvement activities of the assigned department. Contribution and participation includes data collection, analysis, implementation of and compliance with risk management and claims activities, support of and participation in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) teams, consistent adherence to the specific rules and regulations of the BronxCare Health System (a) Safety and Security Policies, (b) Risk Management: Incident and Occurrence Reporting, (c) Infection Control Policies and Procedures and (d) Patient and Customer Service.
- Develops and co-leads groups, i.e., WRAP, community integration, recovery, relapse prevention, socialization, symptom management, etc.
- Provides one-to-one support to patients and families
- Participates in treatment team and discharge planning meetings.
- Recommends post-discharge supports, including psychosocial clubhouses, peer support services and other community resources that support the recovery process.
- Participates in clinical supervision provided onsite at BronxCare Health System.
Completion of Comprehensive Peer Provision Training.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Works well in team of interdisciplinary professionals.
- Willing to accept guidance from supervisor.
- Comfortable working in fast-paced environment.
- Strong group facilitation skills.
- High School or GED
- Computer literate.
- Bi-lingual preferred: English/Spanish and/or French
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