Recovery Coach - MCI - 1st shift

SilkRoad; Milford (MA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 33,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Twelve paid holidays

403(b) retirement savings plan

Employee Assistance Plan

Referral bonus

Job summary

Riverside Community Care in Massachusetts is seeking a Recovery Coach for the 1st shift on weekends. This role supports individuals in recovery, helping them access community resources and guiding them through their recovery journey.

As a part-time position (16 hours), you will collaborate with peers, provide psychoeducation on recovery and crisis self-management, and assist with transitions to follow-up services while upholding a person-centered approach.

Qualifications

• Experience in recovery or lived experience with addiction or co-occurring mental health disorders.
• Ability to connect individuals with community resources and support transitions.
• Comfort providing psychoeducation and crisis self-management information.

Responsibilities

• Provide persons served with support, information, and assistance in connecting with community-based resources and services.
• Convey hope and provide psychoeducation on recovery, rehabilitation, and crisis self-management.
• Assist in arranging services after MCI intervention and support transitions to follow-up services.

Skills

Recovery-based experience

Psychoeducation

Peer support

Job description

Riverside Community Care

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Recovery Coach - 1st shift

Recovery Coaches (RC's) are individuals currently in recovery who have lived experience with addiction and/or co-occurring mental health disorders and have been trained to help their peers with a similar experience to gain hope, explore their own recovery pathway, and achieve life goals.

In this vital role, the primary responsibility of Recovery Coaches is to support the voices and choices of the people they help, removing obstacles to recovery, linking persons served to a recovery community, and serve as a personal guide and mentor.

The Recovery Coach will:

• provide persons served with support, information, and assistance in connecting with and obtaining community-based resources and services
• convey hope and provide psychoeducation, including information about recovery, rehabilitation, and crisis self-management
• potentially assist in arranging the services to which the individual is being referred after the MCI intervention, and they shall work with the person and family to support them during the transition to those follow-up services

Schedule

Part Time, 16 hours

• Saturday - Sunday, 1st shift

Pay

$22.27/hourly

• additional $1 with CPS
• additional $2 with CARC

Why You'll Love Riverside

We make a true difference in people’s lives through rewarding work. Most of our jobs come with great benefits – including healthcare, numerous professional development opportunities, and generous time off - all in a respectful and inclusive environment, perhaps why Riverside was named a Boston Globe Top Workplace and a best-in-state employer by Forbes.

Benefits include:

• Comprehensive, high-quality health, dental, and vision insurance options
• Flexible Spending Accounts –both medical and dependent care
• Twelve paid holidays
• Separate accruals for vacation (increases with tenure), personal, and sick time
• Tax-deferred 403(b) retirement savings plan
• Employee Assistance Plan / Travel Assistance Plan
• Employee bonus for referrals resulting in hiring
• Discounts to movie theaters, sporting, and entertainment events
• Employee YMCA discount: 10% off a YMCA monthly membership and 50% off the joiner’s fee

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