Peer Bridger - Peer Bridger Program - MSW - Full Time - Day

Job Title: Peer Bridger - Peer Bridger Program - MSW - Full Time - Day

 

 

The purpose of the Peer Bridger is to provide essential bridging between the Emergency services delivered during the crisis, a more lasting services over the longer term. Responsibilities for both these positions include participating in collaboration and coordination meetings, delivering recovery strategies, responding to patient emergencies as needed, as well as providing a direct link to service providers.  

 

• Offer hope through connection and engagement on what is possible. 
• Support individuals in connecting or reconnecting to their community and relationships. 
• Connect to and support individuals in various stages of navigation from CPEP to community, based on identified needs and requests for support.
• Provide validation and support through person centered approaches and engagement. 
• Advocate when requested by the individual. 
• Assist in the development of comfort around self-advocacy.  
• Demonstrate personal self-help and wellness skills. 
• Share known resources and knowledge on system navigation. 
• Serve as a mentor when appropriate on wellness and recovery.  
• Assist in the exploration of personal goals that lead to life satisfaction.  
• Engage in shared decision making with individuals to support voice and choice in all treatment decisions. 
• Utilize evidence-based peer interventions such as Action Planning for Prevention and Recovery, Shared Decision Making, Psychiatric Advanced Directives, Building Recovery Capital, and the Eight Dimensions of Wellness. 
• Conduct informational groups for CPEP staff about the benefits of working with Peer Bridger. 
•  Work collaboratively with the team to educate all involved on recovery, self-determination, shared decision making, dignity of risk, and peer values. 

 

 

• Demonstrate ability to navigate community resources 
• Ability to model, facilitate, and convey the message that healing is possible and probable 
• Exhibit oral, reading, writing, and computer skills with basic knowledge in applications such as Microsoft Office: Teams, Word, Power Point, Excel, Outlook  
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills with ability to work independently and as part of a team 
• Ability to maintain confidential information as related to position, always maintaining transparency with any limits that are identified 
• Healthcare and/or Behavioral Healthcare experience preferred

 

• Formal training as Peer or equivalent work experience.
• Hold current/active New York Peer Certification. 
• New York Certified Peer Specialist, Provisional (NYCPS-P) 
• New York Certified Peer Specialist (NYCPS) 
• New York Certified Recovery Peer Advocate (CRPA) 
• Credentialed Family Peer Advocate (FPA-C) 
• Credentialed Youth Peer Advocate 
• Demonstrates a professional, courteous, and respectful attitude in dealing with patients, families and significant others.
• Communicates and collaborates in an effective and respectful manner with members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Read write, and understand English. 
• Follow verbal instructions.
• Moderate physical activity required.
• CPEP as well as home and community visits when clinically indicated. 

 

Non-Bargaining Unit, RAR - Peer Bridger Program - WST, Mount Sinai West

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:  

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization.  We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve