Community Engagement Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

North Suffolk Community Services (NSCS) is seeking a person who is well-grounded in recovery. Because of their life experience with mental health recovery, the Community Engagement Specialist (CES) provides expertise that clinical training cannot replicate. This position is designated for a person who identifies as having lived experience of mental health recovery, resilience and healing as a means to inspire hope, optimism and the courage to act. CES’’s receive supervision from a Peer Manager and are provided one on one support, psycho-educational groups and additional resources for NSCS clients. The Engagement Specialist engages in non-directive and supportive relationships that promote empowerment and self-learning.

This position is Full-Time Monday-Friday; 36 hours per week. Some nights/weekends required. 

What you’ll do: 

• Support person served, based on their needs in recovery-oriented skills, activities of daily living, socialization, and community integration.
• Provide consistent interventions to engage individuals in services and recovery, including in person and telehealth outreach and engagement efforts.
• Assist the treatment team to develop an individual action plan or support the person served in developing a wellness plan.
• Implement, teach, assist and/ or coach persons served with their individual action plan or recoverees who have developed their own wellness plan to review their goals and objectives on a consistent basis.
• All other duties as assigned. 

What you’ll need: 

• Education: 
  • High School Diploma/GED equivalent. 
• Experience: 
  • This individual must have lived experience with mental health and/or co-occurring disorders. 
• Skills: 
  • Driver’s license preferred but not required to attend off-site functions. 
  • Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) certificate preferred.

Competitive & Comprehensive Benefits:

• Paid Time Off – Two weeks’ Vacation per year (three weeks after 1 year of service), 12 Sick Days per year, and 11 Paid Holidays per year
• Eligible employer for the PSLF program
• Health & Dental Insurance, with generous employer contribution
• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• 403 (b) Retirement Plan with employer matching
• Voluntary Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Medical & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Access to Credit Union Banking
• Access to State Tuition Remission Program (Worksite Specific)
• Employee Referral Bonus Program
• Discounted Movie Tickets
• Comprehensive Training Program
• Internal Advancement Opportunities