Recovery Coach | Valor | Part-Time

Explore career pathways in Behavioral Health, Substance Use and Recovery, Community Based Clinical services, Adolescent and Family services, Adult Residential, Maintenance, and Administration. Whether in an entry-level or leadership role, Gandara provides tools and resources to enhance your career growth. Transition your skills and experience to meet the organization's mission and support the community we serve.

Benefits

• Retirement Plan 403(b)
• Health, Dental, Vision, Pet, and Life Insurance
• Paid vacations
• Paid holidays
• 8 discretionary days
• Mileage Reimbursement

Pay

$20.00 Hourly

Additional Benefits

• Career Growth Opportunities
• Culturally Diverse population
• Clinical Licensing Support

About the Role

The Recovery Coach works as an integral part of the Center team, performing non-clinical supportive services to individuals in or seeking recovery. This role involves embracing members at the Center, identifying their needs, and building their recovery capital through various supports such as housing applications, probation support, resume building, and more. A flexible schedule may be required.

Responsibilities

• Participate in developing and implementing community activities that support and promote recovery.
• Demonstrate competency in relapse prevention strategies.
• Provide membership program orientation services and requirements.
• Conduct confidential, quality supports that are gender and culturally responsive, and trauma informed.
• Assist with the development of individualized plans with each assigned recoveree to build recovery capital.
• Meet, collaborate, coordinate support services, and attend appointments with recoverees for probation, parole, employment and educational agencies, Department of Children and Families (DCF), human services providers, medical and primary care, clinical mental/behavioral health, family support, etc.
• Link recoverees to services provided by community-based organizations such as peer support groups, legal services, nutritional counseling, and HIV rapid retesting and Hepatitis B and C testing.
• Provide recoveree education in finances, housing stability, behavioral and primary health, life skills, and all aspects of addiction and related life domains.
• Provide crisis intervention by assessing severity, de-escalating the recoveree, referring to emergency response team as needed, and developing a safety plan.
• Exemplify recovery principles and set an example that recovery is attainable.
• Perform program recordkeeping and filing, and organize vital documents.
• Provide telephone coverage for the assigned program and direct calls to other programs as needed.
• Participate in required supervisions, staff meetings, and trainings.
• Participate and cooperate in any investigations conducted by internal and external agencies.
• Use a computer, including inputting information into data systems.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED (reasonable exceptions may be made in certain situations).
• Must have lived experience and 2 years acknowledged continuous sobriety.
• Experience and knowledge regarding the addiction treatment service system.
• Must have successfully participated in a recovery coach academy.
• Eligible to be a certified recovery coach.
• Experience with adults diagnosed with a substance use disorder.

Bilingual candidates encouraged to apply. Work location: Westfield.