Recovery Coach - Recovery on the Harbor
About The Position
North Suffolk is seeking a Recovery Coach for its Recovery on the Harbor team. Grounded in peer-assisted recovery, the Recovery Coach draws on lived experience with substance use and/or other addictions to provide expertise that clinical training cannot replicate. Reporting to the Director of Recovery, the coach is a fully integrated team member who supports the East Boston community. The role also provides expertise and consultation to help the agency foster a culture in which recoverees’ perspectives and preferences are recognized, respected, and integrated into support, treatment, rehabilitation, and community-based recovery-oriented systems of care. This is a full-time, 36-hour-per-week position that requires some nights and weekends as needed.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree; or a GED or high school diploma with work experience supporting adults diagnosed with substance use and/or dependency; or a bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- Knowledge and experience of the addiction treatment service system, recovery coaching, and related human services.
- Two years of sustained recovery.
Nice To Haves
- Certified Addictions Recovery Coach (CARC) certification is preferred.
- Bilingualism in Spanish is strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provide ongoing, personalized recovery coaching focused on strengths, goal-setting, skill-building, and relapse prevention.
- Support recoverees in developing and implementing individualized wellness and recovery plans, reviewing plans regularly, and incorporating peer-driven techniques and motivational strategies.
- Assist the City of Cambridge Department of Public Health and community stakeholders with brief interventions to engage individuals presenting with Substance Use Disorder.
- Promote a recovery-oriented environment emphasizing recoveree empowerment, cultural competency, and recoveree-driven recovery pathways.
- Support organizational efforts to embed peer support at all levels of care.
- Communicate effectively with collateral contacts, including probation officers, therapists, family members, and sponsors, when a valid release of information is in place.
- Advocate for recoverees’ needs within the treatment and service continuum.
- Work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of recoverees and the program.
- Attend required trainings within prescribed timelines.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Two weeks of vacation per year, increasing to three weeks after one year of service.
- 12 sick days per year.
- 11 paid holidays per year.
- Eligible employer for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.
- Health and dental insurance with a generous employer contribution.
- Employer-paid life insurance.
- 403(b) retirement plan with employer matching.
- Voluntary short- and long-term disability insurance.
- Medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
- Access to credit union banking.
- Access to the State Tuition Remission Program, worksite specific.
- Employee referral bonus program.
- Discounted movie tickets.
- Comprehensive training program.
- Internal advancement opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
High school or GED
