Peer Engagement- Recovery Peer Advocate
Clifton Springs, NYFull-time$17.5–18.5/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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The Peer Engagement Specialist provides peer support to clients with substance use disorders in the community, including people who may be in crisis or early in recovery. The role includes advocacy, recovery planning, psycho-education, case management support, and community networking. Candidates must have lived experience, complete New York State-certified peer support specialist training, and meet the applicable certification requirements for their tier.
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Salary Range $17.50 - $18.50 Hourly
Level Entry
Position Type Full Time
Education Level CASAC
Category Other
Description
Major Duties and Responsibilities: The Peer Engagement Specialist (PE) is an active member in the FLACRA COTI department and provides peer support services to clients with substance use disorders. Under the supervision of the Program Manager the PE will function as a role model to peers; exhibiting competency in personal recovery and use of coping skills; serve as a consumer advocate, providing consumer information and peer support for clients in the community. The PE performs a wide range of tasks to assist peers of all ages in regaining independence within the community and mastery over their own recovery process. Recovery resources such as booklets, tapes, pamphlets and other written materials will be utilized by the PE in the provision of services. This position focuses on those in the community, including potentially in crisis and early in the continuum of stages of change. As a result community networking is an integral part of the role. Duties 1. Serves as an active member of the client’s care team, including participation in team meetings and treatment planning meetings as appropriate. 2. Assists clients in development of recovery plan, including crisis plan and/or support in the midst of a crisis. 3. Provides psycho-education with focus on illness management and peer support. 4. Serves as role model for clients by sharing own recovery process and teaching effective coping techniques and self-help strategies. 5. Provides case management, resourcing, service collaboration for individual clients as extension of case management services. 6. Maintains accurate, thorough records on all assigned cases and uses documentation to assist clients in evaluating progress. 7. Maintains accurate documentation as required by applicable grants. 8. Provides advocacy services on behalf of clients. 9. Helps increase community awareness of services available. 10. Informs supervisor, and other members of treatment team as indicated, of issues/concerns related to individual clients. 11. Participates in required trainings to maintain certification. 12. Knowledge of Crisis Intervention and Early Engagement 13. Provides 1 week of overnight on call services in rotation with others. 14. Tier 2 staff are expected to model leadership and help support Tier 1 peers. 15. Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: Completion of NY state-certified peer support specialist training through OMH or OASAS. Ability to take part in on call rotation. Valid NYS drivers license. • Tier 1 – Participation in first offered peer certification training, acquiring CRPA-P no later than 4 months after employment. • Tier 2 – certification as a CRPA-P or CRPA
Other Skills/Knowledge and Experience 1. High School Diploma or GED. 2. Eighteen years of age or older. 3. Good interpersonal skills and written and oral communication skills. 4. Knowledge of applicable population group and principles/philosophy of recovery. 5. Ability to multi-task, have good problem solving and time management skills and the ability to remain calm in a crisis 6. Must have NY state driver license. 7. Comfort/ability to provide services in the community to those in need. 8. Ability to provide overnight on call coverage in a weekly rotation. LIVED EXPERIENCE IS REQUIRED
How this job compares
Set against the 3,241 open Case Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$17.5–18.5/hr
- New York median$24–26/hr188 hourly ranges
- US median$25–36/hr1,155 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $18/hr, is 29% below the New York median midpoint ($25/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Case Management hourly ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 482 open Case Management jobs in New York and 3,241 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- Case Management postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (2,276 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 1,151 of the 3,241 open Case Management jobs (36%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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