Military/Veteran Peer Support Specialist III (Multiple Vacancies)

Posting Summary

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Peer Support Specialist III within the Vets4Warriors Department of Rutgers University Behavioral Healthcare.

Under the supervision, the Peer Support Specialist III provides person centered, culturally competent, and “consumer friendly” services to individuals who contact the Call Center. Receives telephone, chat, and text requests for service, undertakes review of the service need of the caller or consumer, and responds by offering peer support and appropriate referrals and disposition.

Among the key duties of this position are the following:

Provides “customer friendly” services, taking initiative in engaging individuals served in an empathic and concerned manner.

Develops and maintains a peer to peer relationship with individuals served so that he/she can identify emotional, psychiatric or behavioral changes with may require further support.

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