Certified Recovery Specialist - Myrtle Beach, SC

About the role

Provide peer-based recovery support services to individuals contemplating or actively seeking help with behavioral health recovery. Crossroads Treatment Centers is a family of professionals dedicated to providing the most accessible, highest quality, evidence-based medication assisted treatment (MAT) options to combat the growing opioid epidemic and helping people with opioid use disorder start their path to recovery.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with county jails, detention centers, and drug courts to connect individuals to medication-assisted treatment (MAT) both pre-trial and post-adjudication.
• Host community events to distribute harm reduction materials and collaborate with key community partners, including justice-involved partners.
• Engage in relationship building with individuals to establish rapport, as evidenced by empathetic and active listening and communicating in a non-judgmental way.
• Participate in daily shift debriefs, as well as weekly individual supervision, and monthly group supervision.
• Administrative duties to include recovery plan creation, data tracking and entry, and regular digital communication via e-mail, group messaging apps, etc.
• Conduct self in an ethical manner by adhering to the TCBAP codes of ethics.
• Follow and adhere to the recovery bill of rights.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 or older.
• High school diploma or GED.
• Past mental illness, substance abuse, or co-occurring disorder.
• A personal history of justice involvement is considered advantageous (but not required) in order to effectively connect with and support the justice-involved population.
• Self-identify as a person who is in recovery and demonstrate self-directed recovery for a minimum of 24 consecutive months from mental illness, substance abuse, or co-occurring disorder.
• Successfully completed the state’s Certified Recovery Specialist or Certified Peer Support Specialist training within the last year.
• Completion of 75 hours of supervision preferred, but not required upon hire.

Schedule

Must be available as early as 4:45am, evenings, and weekends. Specific scheduling will be discussed with recruiting and hiring manager.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.
• PTO.
• Variety of 401K options including a match program with no vesting period.
• Annual Continuing Education Allowance (in related field).
• Life Insurance.
• Short/Long Term Disability.
• Paid maternity/paternity leave.
• Mental Health day.
• Calm subscription for all employees.