Recovery Coach Coordinator/Peer Advocate

North Suffolk is looking for a Recovery Coach Coordinator - Peer Advocate to join our team! This position is a part of the Dee Kennedy Project (DKP) which began as an initiative of the Massachusetts Trial Court to help justice-involved adults find supportive pathways to exit commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) and works to decrease and/or eliminate their justice-involvement. DKP works within Suffolk County – in the courthouses, the jail, and in the community to meet with referrals made to DKP and provide emotional support, recovery coaching, connection to resources, court accompaniment, etc.

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. Recovery Coaches also provide essential expertise and consultation to the Massachusetts Trial Court staff to promote a culture in which recoverees’ points of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected and integrated into support, treatment, rehabilitation, and community-based recovery-oriented systems of care.

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.
• Assist the Dee Kennedy Project with interventions to engage high risk high need individuals presenting in court with substance use disorder.
• Work with the Project Coordinator on providing support to referrals of the project and identifying/addressing existing gaps in services.
• 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.
• Maintains a caseload of referrals and supports their immediate and long term needs and goals including any goals related to recovery and exiting CSE if safe to do so.
• When appropriate, assist persons served in identifying and accessing resources in the community and assist with removing barriers
• Participate in daily staff organizational meetings and treatment planning or wellness planning review meetings.
• Work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of persons served and program.
• 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, Recovery Coach Academy is required within 60 days of hire.

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
• 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