Recovery Coach - Team Firefly | FT – Days | Vanderbilt Health
About The Position
The Recovery Coach provides peer recovery support to patients with substance use disorder (SUD), helping them achieve and sustain recovery as each patient defines it, with some guidance. The role facilitates access to recovery-oriented treatment, resources, and community recovery groups, and maintains support regardless of relapse. The coach serves as a motivator, ally, role model, sounding board, and advocate. Team Firefly is an outpatient clinical program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center that provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary care to pregnant and postpartum women with SUD. Its services include prenatal and postpartum care, social work and peer recovery support, lactation and pediatric services, collaborative mental health care, intensive outpatient programming, group therapy, and support for health-related social needs such as transportation, clothing, food, and diapers. The program supports women in recovery and their families through holistic, trauma-informed care. The schedule is Monday through Friday, 40 hours per week, from 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM. The employee may sign up for after-hours shifts, but this is not required. One year of peer recovery support experience and CPRS certification are strongly preferred.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED.
- Less than one year of relevant work experience is listed as the experience level.
Nice To Haves
- One year of peer recovery support experience (strongly preferred).
- CPRS (Certified Peer Recovery Specialist) certification (strongly preferred).
Responsibilities
- Connect patients across the recovery community, addiction treatment system, medical treatment system, and their community, family, and social context.
- Meet with patients in clinical and community settings to understand their needs and goals, explore potential consequences of those goals, and work collaboratively to remove obstacles to achieving them.
- Educate patients about addiction-safe-use practices and multiple pathways to recovery, and use motivational enhancement techniques.
- Conduct active outreach to encourage attendance and participation in recovery-oriented, self-help, and pro-social groups.
- Collaborate with the treatment team in support of evidence-based services.
- Help patients access treatment by using systems and procedures to respond rapidly to identified needs.
- Assist with data collection for quality assurance and program evaluation.
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package which may include health, disability, retirement, and/or wellness offerings.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
