Certified Recovery Mentor (Nurture Oregon)

BestCare Treatment Services Inc; Bend (OR); On-site; USD 25,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

BestCare Treatment Services Inc. in Bend, Oregon seeks Recovery Mentors to support clients in our intensive outpatient/day treatment program, providing coaching, transportation, and group activities. You will work with the supervisor to design education, referrals, and family components of the program.

As a Recovery Mentor you will model recovery, maintain case notes in the EHR, assist with attendance and reporting, and help connect clients to community resources and sober activities.

Qualifications

• Must have personal lived experience with Substance Use Disorder.
• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• CRM-I and PSS certifications or eligibility within 6 months.

Responsibilities

• Participates in recovery coaching with clients in outpatient/day treatment.
• Provides client transportation and assists with groups and activities.
• Maintains case notes in the EHR and completes required reports.

Skills

Personal lived experience

Recovery mindset

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

CRM-I certification

PSS certification

CPR/First Aid

Oregon Driver License

Job description

Description

Recovery Mentors are a critical part of the SUD Treatment Team and work with SUD clients who are attempting to engage in recovery or in early stages of recovery. The majority of clients who are assigned Recovery Mentor services are involved in our intensive outpatient/Day Treatment program; some clients may be waiting for a residential treatment bed to come open or stepping down from residential treatment into the Day Treatment program. Recovery Mentors are not counselors or clinicians but provide supports to clients that counselors are not able to offer. The Recovery Mentor works with their Supervisor to design and implement education, referral, and parent components of the program. The Recovery Mentor is responsible for helping to facilitate classes and support groups along with group activities. They will maintain a personal recovery program, if applicable, as well as model recovery-appropriate behavior.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Participates and provides recovery coaching to people involved with BestCare Treatment Services using the following methods for engagement with clients:
• Makes regular telephone contact which may include talking with clients who need support and are feeling prone to relapse; reminder calls to clients who are scheduled for assessments, groups, individual sessions; doing outreach to client who miss group or individual services to attempt to reengage them in treatment services;
• Provides client transportation (when approved by supervisor): taking clients to/from treatment services/appointments, transport to detox or residential treatment, and other appointments when it is determined to be helpful by the primary clinician or treatment team;
• Provides recovery coaching for clients during activities;
• Makes home visits on a limited basis, with supervisor approval;
• Attend sober support meetings, or other sober activities, in the community with clients.
• Helps monitor and stay connected to clients who are in residential (and detox) to help with reengagement upon discharge;
• Takes individuals or groups of clients to 12-Step meetings and/or clean and sober activities as appropriate;
• Provides case management services including referrals to various resources (i.e. Food Bank, primary care/medical services, education entities, housing resources, etc.);
• Assists prep and clean-up for evening groups as needed;
• Provides individual, couples, and family support;
• Helping clinicians in groups at the office, jail, etc. Providing back-up in groups and other treatment activities;
• Helping clients develop and connect to non-using recovery activities (how to have fun clean and sober);
• Maintains case notes of client contact within agency documentation timelines in the electronic health record system (EHR);
• Assists the SUD team with UA drug testing if needed;
• Completes attendance sheets, required report forms, and reports client participation to Supervisor;
• Other related duties as assigned by supervisor or Program Manager.

Requirements

QUALIFICATIONS:EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• High School Diploma (or equivalent)
• Must have personal lived experience with Substance Use Disorder
• Must have maintained continuous recovery for the previous two (2) years at the time of hire

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS:

• Requires CRM-I certification or eligibility/commitment to obtain within 6 months of hiring
• Requires PSS or other THW certification or ability/commitment to obtain within 6 months of hiring
• Current CPR and First Aid certification, or ability and commitment to obtain within 60 days of hiring
• Must maintain a valid Oregon Driver License or ability to obtain one upon hire, and be insurable under the organization’s auto liability coverage policy (minimum 21 years of age and with no Type A violations in the past 3 years, or three (3) or more Type B violations)

PREFERRED:

• Bilingual in English/Spanish a plus
• Previous training, experience, or knowledge of treatment in the disease of addiction is preferre