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    Peer Counselor - New York, United States - Mount Sinai Hospital

    Mount Sinai Hospital
    Mount Sinai Hospital New York, United States

    2 weeks ago

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    Job Description

    Support includes listening, encouraging, coaching, empowering and connecting peers to resources that suit that individual's recovery needs. Responsibilities include respectful treatment of others, modeling self-responsibility, developing relationships, advocating, and team participation. Peer Counselor will take responsibility for personal recovery at all times and will complete training requirements.

    Responsibilities

    1. Develops relationships by providing support and encouragement that will enhance consumer's ability to take action against the problem instead of being controlled.

    2. Respects the rights and dignity of everyone at all times.

    3. Develop empowerment skills through self-advocacy.

    4. Takes responsibility for personal recovery at all times, and models self-responsibility.

    5. Encourages consumers to attend consumer meetings/support groups, and supports their effort.

    6. Help identify activities as personal medicine for their peers and to encourage utilization of these activities on a regular basis.

    7. Be conscious of the language used to describe life and how to recreate troubling events using language that offers more options.

    8. Coach peers about recovery.

    9. Identify local resources.

    10. Coach partners when necessary.

    11. Attend Peer Counselor group sessions as determined necessary.

    12. Participate with Team and attend meetings as required.

    13. Complies with agency policies and procedures in completing any required documentation.

    14. Complies with agency policies and procedures and demonstrates professional, ethical and confidential conduct in all work behavior.

    Qualifications
    • High School Diploma or general education degree (GED).
    • Group affiliations a strong plus, i.e., NAMI, DBSA, AA, NA, etc.
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    About Us

    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.
    We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.

    Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history

    "About the Mount Sinai Health System:

    Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Children's Hospitals" ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek's "The World's Best Smart Hospitals" ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

    The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism."

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