Recovery Coach
NORTH SUFFOLK COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
East Boston, MA
- $45,000 Yearly
- Medical , Dental , Paid Time Off , Life Insurance , Retirement
- Full-Time
Job Description
North Suffolk is looking for a Recovery Coach to join our Recovery on the Harbor 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.
This a Full-Time position with some evening and weekend hours required.
What you’ll do:
- 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.
- 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.
What you’ll need:
- Education: 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.
- Experience: Knowledge and experience of the addiction treatment service system, recovery coaching and other related human services
- Skills: Certified Addictions Recovery Coach (CARC) certification preferred.
Competitive & Comprehensive 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
- North Suffolk qualifies as an H-1B Cap-Exempt employer (for eligible positions)
- North Suffolk offers visa and permanent resident card support to active employees
- 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
Address
NORTH SUFFOLK COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
East Boston, MA
02128
USA
Industry
Healthcare
Posted date
4 hours ago
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