Recovery Coach - Team Firefly | FT – Days | Vanderbilt Health

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

14d

About The Position

The Recovery Coach provides peer recovery support to patients with substance use disorder (SUD), helping them achieve and sustain recovery as defined by each patient, with some guidance. The role facilitates access to recovery-oriented SUD treatment, resources, and community recovery groups, and provides ongoing support regardless of relapse. The Recovery Coach serves as a motivator, ally, role model, sounding board, and advocate. Team Firefly is an outpatient clinical program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center providing 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. Firefly supports women in recovery and their families through holistic, trauma-informed care. This is a full-time, days position, Monday through Friday, 40 hours per week, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. After-hours shifts are available by sign-up but are not required. The position requires a high school diploma or GED. One year of peer recovery support experience and CPRS certification are strongly preferred. The experience level listed is less than one year.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
Relevant work experience; the listed experience level is less than one year.

Nice To Haves

One year of peer recovery support experience (strongly preferred).
CPRS (Certified Peer Recovery Specialist) certification (strongly preferred).

Responsibilities

Serves as a liaison among the recovery community, addiction treatment system, medical treatment system, and the patient’s community, family, and social context to facilitate connections across care systems.
Meets with patients in clinical and community settings to understand their needs and personal goals, explore potential positive and negative consequences associated with those goals, and work collaboratively to remove obstacles to goal attainment.
Educates patients about addiction safe-use practices and multiple pathways of recovery, and uses motivational enhancement techniques.
Conducts active outreach to encourage attendance and participation in recovery-oriented, self-help, and pro-social groups.
Works collaboratively with the treatment team in support of evidence-based services to patients.
Assists patients with access to treatment by using systems and procedures to respond rapidly to identified needs.
Assists with data collection for quality assurance and program evaluation.
Provides ongoing support to patients regardless of relapse and acts as a motivator, ally, role model, sounding board, and advocate.