Job Summary:

The Recovery Specialist will assist individuals with a substance use disorder by serving as a role model, advocate, and motivator. Through lived experience, the Recovery Specialist will provide non-clinical individual and group support to develop a recovery care plan, educate individuals on recovery models and cultivate supportive tools to enhance recovery. The Recovery Specialist will work closely with the individual s multidisciplinary care team and community-based organizations to connect patients with additional recovery support services that best fit their needs.

Position Responsibilities:

• Engage individuals and provide non-clinical assistance and recovery support
• Ability to establish connection and trust with patients throughout intervention
• Ability to relate life-experience and show compassion and empathy
• Creates individualized recovery support plans based on patient needs and circumstances
• Advocate for the patients we serve
• Accurately and timely documents data in the electronic health record
• Gather client information to complete the required documentation in the electronic health record
• Complete all required documentation
• Screen and connect patients with non-clinical social/SDoH related services
• Maintain a supportive relationship with clients and families by being a positive role model and sharing experiential knowledge, hope and skills
• Establish and maintain relationships with patients following the grant requirement follow-up process
• Assist clients with gaining skills and resources needed to initiate and maintain recovery
• Utilize resources to empower and advocate for the patient
• Educate individuals on how to appropriately navigate treatment, social service and recovery support systems
• Maintain working relationships with our Patient Navigator and Hospital staff to ensure the navigation to treatment is successful
• Empower individuals to make self-determined and self-directed choices about their recovery pathway
• Facilitate recovery support meetings and groups
• Implement and lead meetings designed to engage, motivate and empower audience,
• Travel within 60-mile radius of assigned hospital to alternate facilities when recovery support services are needed
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent required within 1 year of hire
• Must have at least 4 years experience in the guiding principles of recovery that assist individuals to improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and reach their full potential
• Must have reliable transportation
• Bilingual a plus
• Previous recovery work preferred
• NAADAC Certification or working towards one within 6 months of employment
• Computer skills and knowledge with the ability to email, navigate Microsoft Word, and other software systems
• Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development/training, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias