Recovery Coach

Aspire Health Alliance; Quincy (MA); On-site; USD 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Aspire Health Alliance is looking for a Recovery Coach to join its multidisciplinary team at the Community Behavioral Health Center. The Recovery Coach will provide essential support to clients pursuing recovery from substance use disorders, offering peer counseling, mentorship, and advocacy while collaborating with healthcare professionals to promote holistic care. Candidates should possess a High School Diploma and have training as a Recovery Coach, along with a commitment to supporting clients in their recovery journey.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma required; training as a Recovery Coach mandatory.
• Two years of sustained sobriety needed.
• Enthusiastic about supporting clients in recovery.

Responsibilities

• Provide peer counseling and support to clients with substance use disorder.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team to coordinate services.
• Maintain records of patient encounters in EMR system.

Skills

Peer Counseling

Flexibility

Collaboration

Computer Proficiency

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Recovery Coach Training

Job description

The Recovery Coach is a member of the multidisciplinary team at the Community Behavioral Health Center (CBHC).

The CBHC service delivery model provides access to comprehensive and integrated client-centered care using evidence-based practice and assessment for the community and identified populations. The Recovery Coach provides support to CBHC clients by encouraging them to work towards their recovery and health goals, participate in recovery-oriented activities, and develop a network of sober supports. The team supporting the Recovery Coach role includes Behavioral Health Clinicians, Client Navigators, and Medical Professionals, both internal and external, to ensure access to medication-assisted therapy and primary care services.

**Responsibilities: **

Provide peer counseling and support, drawing on lived experience as a peer, to validate clients’ experiences and to provide guidance and encouragement to clients to actively participate in their own recovery.

• Provide mentorship, outreach services, and education to clients with substance use disorder.

• Collaborate with the team to promote a team culture in which each clients’ point of view, experiences, and preferences are recognized, understood, and respected, and in which client self-determination and decision-making in treatment planning are maximized and supported.

• Address barriers to successful recovery and serve as a role model and advocate

• Provide information and assist with connection to community-based services, resources, and peer support networks.

• Serve as a liaison between the recovery community, the addiction treatment system, the medical treatment system, and the client’s community, family, and social context to facilitate connections across systems of care

• Work collaboratively with treatment team and collateral contacts to coordinate and implement services

• Promote engagement with therapy, medical appointments, and other wellness services

• Maintain timely records of all patient encounters in EMR system in accordance with state and federal confidentiality laws

• Attend treatment team meetings, individual supervision, and trainings/workshops as appropriate

• Follow the Organization’s/department policies regarding professional ethics and confidentiality.

• Maintain appropriate relationships with clients and/or staff as observed by management and feedback received from staff/clients.

• Maintain confidentiality of all clients, employees, proprietary information about the Organization and/or any other information which is deemed confidential as observed by management

• Follow the Agency’s and department specific policies and procedures.

• Actively Participate in the Agency’s Quality Initiatives

**Requirements : **

• High School Diploma or equivalent

• Completed training as a Recovery Coach, including ethics training ****required

• Certified Addictions Recovery Coach (CARC), or willing to obtain certification within six months of hire

• Candidate who identifies as being in recovery from a substance use disorder and is willing to share details of his or her personal recovery experience

• Minimum two years of sustained sobriety

• Enthusiastic about providing support to clients in early recovery from a substance use disorder and is open to multiple pathways of recovery from substance use

• Ability to work flexibly and collaboratively with multi-disciplinary team

• Computer proficiency

• Valid driver’s license, access to personal vehicle, and good driving record **required **

_Aspire Health Alliance is committed to and passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion. We celebrate, support and promote diversity of thought, culture, and backgrounds. As an employer committed to equal opportunity, we base all employment decisions on each individual’s capabilities and qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetics, or any other protected characteristic. Aspire Health Alliance strives to fully reflect the clients and communities we serve and believes that a diversity of interests and cultures leads to a stronger and more innovative organization. _

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