Recovery Coach: Pathways to Lasting Wellness

Samaritan Health Care; Greenville (MI); On-site; USD 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Samaritan Way in Muskegon is seeking a dependable Recovery Coach to empower participants on the journey to sustained recovery. You will use lived experience and professional training to help individuals identify goals, address barriers, and connect with community resources.

This role requires compassionate, professional boundaries, timely documentation, and the ability to manage a caseload while collaborating with staff, treatment providers, and community partners to support multiple pathways of

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED.
• Recovery Coach certification or willingness to complete within required timeframe.
• Personal lived experience with recovery or related life experience preferred.
• Ability to communicate respectfully with diverse individuals.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and professional boundaries.
• Strong organization, time-management, and multitasking skills.
• Ability to complete electronic documentation accurately by deadlines.
• Dependable attendance and punctuality.
• Basic computer skills including email and online records.
• Ability to work independently while remaining accountable to supervisors.
• Ability to pass all required background checks and organizational screenings.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual recovery coaching services to assigned participants.
• Help participants create person-centered recovery plans and identify achievable goals.
• Support all pathways of recovery, including medication-assisted treatment.
• Complete required assessments, recovery plans, progress notes, service documentation, and monthly updates accurately and on time.
• Maintain regular contact with participants and manage an assigned caseload.
• Assist participants with barriers involving housing, employment, transportation, education, identification, benefits, and community resources.
• Connect participants with treatment providers, medical services, mental health services, mutual-aid groups, and other recovery supports.
• Facilitate recovery-focused groups and educational activities when assigned.
• Work closely with parole, probation, recovery court, treatment providers, housing staff, and other community partners when appropriate releases are in place.
• Encourage participant accountability without directing, controlling, or making decisions for the participant.
• Recognize warning signs of relapse, overdose risk, mental health concerns, and other emergencies.
• Follow Samaritan Way crisis, overdose, mandatory-reporting, and emergency procedures.
• Maintain participant confidentiality and comply with HIPAA, 42 CFR Part 2, organizational policies, and professional ethical standards.
• Maintain healthy boundaries and avoid inappropriate dual relationships.
• Attend staff meetings, supervision sessions, trainings, outreach events, and organizational activities.
• Assist with outreach, community events, participant engagement, and other duties needed to support Samaritan Way's mission.
• Maintain a welcoming, respectful, trauma-informed, and recovery-focused environment.

Skills

Communication

Confidentiality

Organization

Time management

Multitasking

Documentation

Independence

Education

High school diploma or GED

Recovery Coach certification or willingness to complete

Tools

Basic computer skills

Job description

Samaritan Way in Muskegon is seeking a dependable Recovery Coach to empower participants on the journey to sustained recovery. You will use lived experience and professional training to help individuals identify goals, address barriers, and connect with community resources.

This role requires compassionate, professional boundaries, timely documentation, and the ability to manage a caseload while collaborating with staff, treatment providers, and community partners to support multiple pathways of