Recovery Coach - Addiction Psychiatry

Vanderbilt University Medical Center • Nashville, TN

12d • Onsite

About The Position

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research. Organization: Psychiatry - Addiction Job Summary: In your pivotal role as Recovery Coach, you will provide peer recovery support services to patients with substance use disorder (SUD) admitted to VUH (Vanderbilt University Hospital) and will assist patients in achieving and sustaining recovery as defined by each individual patient, with some guidance. You also will facilitate patient access to recovery-oriented substance use disorder treatment, resources, and community recovery groups. as well as maintain ongoing patient support regardless of stage of change and will serve as a motivator, ally, role model, sounding board, and advocate for patients with substance use disorders. You will work on site at the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital and will work traditional daytime business hours, Monday-Friday. . DEPARTMENT SUMMARY: The Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital (VPH) was founded as a psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents. The hospital has expanded the services and now provides services for children, adolescents, and adults. Residents in their PGY 1 and PGY 2 year spend time on each of the following acute inpatient units: Child, Adolescent, General Adult, Psychotic Disorders, and Addiction. For more information, please visit https://www.vumc.org/psychiatry/vanderbilt-psychiatric-hospital-vph.

Requirements

• Clinical Counseling (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate clinical counseling in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
• Patient Assessment (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate patient assessments in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
• Peer Leadership (Novice): The ability to show leadership and influence people of equal rank in an effort to accomplish team goals.
• Relevant Work Experience Experience Level : Less than 1 year
• Education: High School Diploma or GED

Responsibilities

• -To provide bedside recovery coaching to patients admitted to the hospital for SUD related issues. Serves as a liaison between the recovery community, the addiction treatment system, the medical treatment system, and the patient’s community, family, and social context to facilitate connections across systems of care.
• Meets with patients in clinical and community settings to understand their needs and personal goals, support the exploration of potential positive and negative consequences associated with personal goals, and work collaboratively with the patient to remove obstacles that might interfere with goal attainment.
• Educates patients about addiction safe use practices, multiple pathways of recovery, and utilizes motivational enhancement techniques
• Conducts active outreach efforts to encourage attendance and participation in recovery-oriented, self-help, and pro-social groups.
• Works collaboratively with treatment team in support of evidence-based services to patients.
• Assists with access to treatment for patients, understanding and using systems and procedures to rapidly support identified needs of the patient and assists with data collection for quality assurance and program evaluation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED