Recovery Coach - It Takes a Village

NORTH SUFFOLK COMMUNITY SERVICES INC•Chelsea, MA

30d•$56,340 - $67,272•Onsite

About The Position

North Suffolk is looking for a Recovery Coach to join their It Takes a Village team. The Recovery Coach is a person who is grounded in peer-assisted recovery. Because of their life experience with substance use and/or other addictions, the Recovery Coach provides expertise that clinical training cannot replicate. They promote a culture in which recoverees' points of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected and integrated into support, treatment, rehabilitation, and community-based recover-oriented systems of care.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in a field other than behavioral health sciences or have a high school degree/GED required.
Must have work experience with adults diagnosed with substance use and/or dependency.
Knowledge and experience of the addiction treatment service system, recovery coaching and other related human services

Nice To Haves

Certified Addictions Recovery Coach (CARC) certification preferred.
Bilingual Spanish is strongly preferred, please list language skills on the application!!

Responsibilities

Supervise and/or coach recoverees, based on their needs, in recovery-oriented skills, activities of daily living, socialization, and community integration.
Implement, teach, assist and/or coach persons served with their individual action plan or recoverees who have developed their own wellness plan to review their goals and objectives on a consistent basis.
Interface with all collateral contacts working with the persons served or recoverees coached. (I.e. Probation Officers, individual therapists, and self-help sponsors).
When appropriate, assist persons served in identifying and accessing sponsorship
Develop and enhance peer driven educational services.
Participate in upkeep and maintenance of program.
Work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of persons served and program.
Document client progress to maintain a permanent record of client activity according to established methods and procedures.
Participate in the provision of services to persons served by co-facilitating groups (in conjunction with professional staff) to provide support for increased stability in their lives through recovery and a better understanding of their symptoms of relapse as well as symptoms of mental illness.
Provide ongoing assessment, problem solving, side-by-side services, skill training, supervision (e.g. prompts, assignments, monitoring, encouragement), and environmental adaptations to assist persons served with activities of daily living (i.e. identifying and attending self-help meetings, support with sponsorship). Provide recovery coaching when recoverees have indicated that preference and responded well to that approach.

Benefits

Paid Time Off – Two weeks’ Vacation per year (three weeks after 1 year of service), 12 Sick Days per year, and 11 Paid Holidays per year
Eligible employer for the PSLF program
Health & Dental Insurance, with generous employer contribution
Employer Paid Life Insurance
403 (b) Retirement Plan with employer matching
Voluntary Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
Medical & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Access to Credit Union Banking
Access to State Tuition Remission Program (Worksite Specific)
Employee Referral Bonus Program
Discounted Movie Tickets
Comprehensive Training Program
Internal Advancement Opportunities