Peer Recovery Coach

About the role

This position serves as a personal guide, and liaison for individuals with substance use disorders identified in WVU Medicine affiliated treatment settings. The recovery coach supports patients by assisting them with identifying treatment needs, developing, maintaining, and monitoring individualized treatment plans, and supporting patients to remain in treatment. The recovery coach’s duties include providing outreach, support, recovery check-ups on site in treatment settings, in the community and functioning as part of a treatment team. Company: PCH Princeton Community Hospital, Cost Center 7310 PCH Emergency Services, Bluefield. Address: 500 Cherry Street, Bluefield, West Virginia.

Responsibilities

• Work actively with patients with Substance Use Disorders identified in WVU Medicine treatment settings
• Help link patients to outpatient treatment.
• Provide mentoring through life-experience to individuals experiencing substance use problems.
• Meet face to face with individuals and identified support persons in person and/or by phone, at a frequency and format requested and agreed upon by the individual.
• Develop individualized plans with patients and monitor those wellness plans during meetings.
• Provide information to treatment team to inform treatment decision making.
• Link patients to available resources, including, but not limited to: continuing education/professional development, safe housing, recovery supports, self-help groups, substance abuse and mental health services, sobriety meetings, and medical/health facilities.
• Serve as a liaison to the patient’s formal and informal supports, including but not limited to: their referral source, family members, client sponsors, treatment providers, and other supporters.
• Maintain working relationships with WVU Medicine treatment staff and other agencies or institutions in order provide awareness of recovery as a reality and the availability of recovery coaching.
• Assist patients in crisis situations involving social, emotional, health, and other problems.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Completion of state or nationally recognized Peer Recovery Support Specialist Certification training within 90 days of hire date
• Peer Recovery Certification issued by state board where services are provided within one (1) year of hire: WV: Substance Use Disorder Peer Recovery Certification (PRSS-SUD) through the West Virginia Certification Board for Addiction and Prevention Professionals (WVCBAPP); MD: Certified Peer Recovery