Recovery Coach - It Takes a Village

Job Description

Job Description

North Suffolk is looking for a  Recovery Coach  to join our 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.

This is a full-time position; 36 hours per week. 

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.
• 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.

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. Bilingual Spanish is strongly preferred, please list language skills on the application!!

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
• 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