Part-Time Recovery Coach | Peer Support Guide

Gandara Center; Brockton (MA); On-site; USD 25,000 - 33,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Pet insurance

Life insurance

Paid vacations

Paid holidays

8 discretionary days

Mileage reimbursement

Hourly rate $21

Job summary

Gandara Center in Brockton, MA seeks a Recovery Coach to support individuals in the early stages of recovery. This non-clinical, strength-based peer-to-peer role helps people remove barriers and connect with the recovery community.

You will develop recovery plans, provide crisis support, and link recoverees to services across housing, health, and social supports. A high school diploma, lived experience, and completion of recovery coach training are required; bilingual candidates encouraged.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED, reasonable exceptions may be made in certain situations.
• Must have lived experience and 2 years acknowledged continuous sobriety
• Experience and knowledge regarding the addiction treatment service system.
• Must have successfully participated in recovery coach academy
• Eligible to be a certified recovery coach
• Experience with adults diagnosed with a substance use disorder

Responsibilities

• Participate in developing and implementing community activities that support and promote recovery.
• Demonstrate competency in relapse prevention strategies.
• Provide membership program orientation services and requirements.
• Conduct confidential, quality supports that are gender and culturally responsive and trauma informed.
• Assist with the Development of individualized recovery plan with each assigned recoveree using collaborative information from all sources to develop short and long term goals.
• Link recoverees to services provided by community-based organizations such as peer support groups, legal services, nutritional counseling, and HIV rapid retesting and Hepatitis B and C testing.
• Provide recoveree education in finances, housing stability, behavioral and primary health, life skills and all aspects of addiction and related life domains.

Skills

Lived experience

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Gandara Center in Brockton, MA seeks a Recovery Coach to support individuals in the early stages of recovery. This non-clinical, strength-based peer-to-peer role helps people remove barriers and connect with the recovery community.

You will develop recovery plans, provide crisis support, and link recoverees to services across housing, health, and social supports. A high school diploma, lived experience, and completion of recovery coach training are required; bilingual candidates encouraged.