Recovery Coach with Lived Experience | Help Others Thrive

Riverside Community Care; Milford (MA); Hybrid; USD 43,000 - 52,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Twelve paid holidays

Vacation, personal and sick time

403(b) retirement plan

Employee referral bonus

YMCA discount

Job summary

Riverside Community Care in Milford, MA is seeking a Recovery Coach for the 1st shift on Saturdays and Sundays. This part-time role entails 16 hours weekly and provides support, information, and connection to community resources for individuals in recovery.

Recovery Coaches are individuals with lived experience who guide peers through recovery pathways, offer psychoeducation, and help arrange follow-up services as they transition to ongoing care.

Qualifications

• Lived experience with addiction and trained to help peers

Responsibilities

• Provide peers with support, information, and assistance in connecting with community resources and services
• Convey hope and provide psychoeducation on recovery, rehabilitation, and crisis self-management
• Assist in arranging services and support during transitions to follow-up care

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:$22.94/hourly

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

Why You'll Love RiversideWe 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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