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Outreach Development Corporation

Outreach is a non-profit organization that helps people address the issues stemming from substance use and behavioral health disorders by providing the highest quality, life-changing treatment, training and tools to build healthy lives . Our mission is to inspire individuals and families to achieve a life of unlimited potential by developing and delivering the highest quality evidence-based behavioral health services and training. For more information, please visit www.opiny.org.

Outreach is seeking a Peer Driver – Mobile to work in our Outpatient Opioid and Methadone Treatment program located in Brentwood, Long Island. It is a part-time position. The schedule is Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday with flexible hours.

What You Will Do:

Provide transportation and peer support to treatment services for clients with opioid use and substance use disorder.

• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary team to provide recovery support services.

• This role will require driving to various community-based stakeholders across Long Island and other boroughs.

• Field-based and on-site peer support to prospective clients.

• Assist client with person-centered recovery goal planning.

• Collaborate with client and care management team to identify the services clients should receive based on stage of change, immediate needs, and recommended treatment objectives.

• Provide services to clients to address housing, income support, education and vocational training, social supports, employment, and primary care needs.

• Assist clients with linkages to and systems navigation within the behavioral health, human services and criminal justice systems as appropriate.

• Act as an advocate and liaison for clients in accessing resources to support treatment plan goals.

• Use motivational interviewing, recovery and trauma informed approaches when delivering peer services.

• Involve family and significant others in the client’s treatment with the team.

• Provide individual peer support, wellness counseling, harm reduction counseling based on motivational interviewing.

• Accompanying clients to appointments and events.

• Conduct outreach to clients who unexpectedly disengage from clinic services.

Who You Are:

Certification as a Recovery Peer Advocate (substance use) or Peer Specialist (mental health) or eligible to obtain certification if not already acquired.

• Valid NYS Driver’s License and good driving record,

• High School Diploma/GED and 2 years work or volunteer experience in a recovery-oriented setting.

• Credential in CRPA-P or CRPA.

• Lived experience using mental health and/or substance use treatment services.

• Experience providing peer support to individuals with serious mental illness and criminal justice involvement, a plus.

• Ability to work with diverse social, cultural, and economic groups.

• Good knowledge of recovery resources such as 12step program and community support groups.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Highly compassionate and attentive to detail

For this Long Island, NY position the expected base salary is $18 - $22 / hour.

At Outreach, we enjoy a strong work-life balance, excellent benefits, and ongoing professional training. Our enthusiastic employees love what they do and the positive impact they make every day. Outreach embraces diversity and promotes a workplace in which individual differences are recognized, appreciated and respected.

Our employees are the reason Outreach ranks among the most respected health and human services providers in New York City and Long Island. In fact, we have been named one of the “Best Companies to Work for in New York” a total of nine times since 2010.

Communities throughout Queens, Brooklyn and Long Island turn to Outreach for a vast array of treatment and training needs. We customize our services to increase our access to a wide range of individuals and groups including Families, Justice System, Aspiring Professionals, EAPs/MAPs and Community Members. Outreach’s treatment services are licensed by the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services ( OASAS (https://oasas.ny.gov/) ) and employ best practices in line with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services’ (SAMHSA) indicators of quality treatment (https://store.samhsa.gov/shin/content/PEP18-TREATMENT-LOC/PEP18-TREATMENT-LOC.pdf) .

An EEO employer, we enjoy exceptional workforce retention – many of our employees have been with Outreach for 10 years or more, some starting as part-timers and now working in full-time senior management.

Adding to our outstanding benefits, some members of Outreach’s clinical and professional staff may be eligible for student loan forgiveness and repayment plans for persons working in public service, education, and health care, including the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program, Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) Plan, or the New York State Licensed Social Worker Loan Forgiveness (LSWLF) Program. Outreach’s NYC outpatient programs are also approved for the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Substance Use Disorder Loan Repayment program, for eligible clinicians.