Recovery Coach Job at NORTH SUFFOLK COMMUNITY SERVICES INC, East Boston, MA

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  • NORTH SUFFOLK COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
  • East Boston, MA

Job Description

Job Description

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. Bilingualism in Spanish is strongly 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

Job Tags

Holiday work, Permanent employment, Full time, Temporary work, Work experience placement, H1b, Flexible hours, Weekend work, Afternoon shift,

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