Recovery Coach - MCI - 1st shift

Riverside Community Care • Milford, MA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Recovery Coaches (RC's) are individuals currently in recovery who have lived experience with addiction and/or co-occurring mental health disorders and have been trained to help their peers with a similar experience to gain hope, explore their own recovery pathway, and achieve life goals. In this vital role, the primary responsibility of Recovery Coaches is to support the voices and choices of the people they help, removing obstacles to recovery, linking persons served to a recovery community, and serve as a personal guide and mentor. The Recovery Coach will: provide persons served with support, information, and assistance in connecting with and obtaining community-based resources and services convey hope and provide psychoeducation, including information about recovery, rehabilitation, and crisis self-management potentially assist in arranging the services to which the individual is being referred after the MCI intervention, and they shall work with the person and family to support them during the transition to those follow-up services.

Requirements

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (in the English language) required.
• Demonstrated ability to participate effectively in a team of staff required.
• Must have a valid driver's license, regular access to a reliable vehicle and be willing to provide transportation to persons served in personal vehicle, as needed.
• Lived experience of recovery in the context of substance use and/or and mental health.
• At least 6 months of related work experience.
• Must have either a college degree or a high school diploma/GED.
• Certification as a Recovery Coach required or commit to obtaining CARC within 1.5 years of hire.

Responsibilities

• Support the voices and choices of the people they help.
• Remove obstacles to recovery.
• Link persons served to a recovery community.
• Serve as a personal guide and mentor.
• Provide persons served with support, information, and assistance in connecting with and obtaining community-based resources and services.
• Convey hope and provide psychoeducation, including information about recovery, rehabilitation, and crisis self-management.
• Potentially assist in arranging the services to which the individual is being referred after the MCI intervention.
• Work with the person and family to support them during the transition to those follow-up services.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, high-quality health, dental, and vision insurance options
• Flexible Spending Accounts – both medical and dependent care
• Twelve paid holidays
• Separate accruals for vacation (increases with tenure), personal, and sick time
• Tax-deferred 403(b) retirement savings plan
• Employee Assistance Plan / Travel Assistance Plan
• Employee bonus for referrals resulting in hiring
• Discounts to movie theaters, sporting, and entertainment events
• Employee YMCA discount: 10% off a YMCA monthly membership and 50% off the joiner’s fee

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED