Certified Peer Recovery Coach -Emancipation Center

Join The Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD as a Certified Peer Recovery Coach -Certified and ignite innovation in transforming lives. The Recovery Coach will perform substance abuse counseling with dual-diagnosed consumers. Work involves identifying clients' rehabilitation needs, providing the necessary instruction in self-help or self-care and community living skills in order to assist consumers in attaining their optimum levels of independent skills and functioning. Work involves planning, coordinating, and implementing substance abuse counseling activities and referring to other agencies and community organizations to ensure maximum utilization of resources available for treatment and rehabilitation. Work will be site-based individual or group modality.

Your Role in Action:

• Collaborates with clients to set achievable goals and guide clients to success.
• Act as an accountability partner to clients.
• Sets a good example to motivate clients towards a clean and meaningful life.
• Finds resources, whether directly related to clients’ individual treatment or other activities that can enrich their lives.
• Maintains a working knowledge of updated available community resources and makes appropriate referrals as needed.
• Provides specific interventions or activities within the scope and practice of Recovery Coach and in accordance with Agency/Unit policies and procedures and appropriate to the individual needs of each consumer:
  • Comprehensive substance use evaluation
  • Administer instruments to assess the scope of substance abuse or use
  • Develops comprehensive substance use treatment plan
  • Organizes, conducts and documents groups as needed
  • Documents substance related intervention in daily progress notes
  • Ongoing contact with consumer, family, significant others and treatment team as needed
  • Identifies consumers at high risk or relapse and evaluates for changes in status
  • Documents substance related discharge plan
• Participates in a collaborative manner as a member of the interdisciplinary team.
• Maintains open communication with medical director, unit director and other professional staff.
• Provides other staff with necessary information including substance abuse/use assessment, intervention/problem resolution, treatment team, and family and consumer consultation.
• Conducts assessments and evaluates the consumer’s participation in the program.
• Demonstrates sensitivity to the cultural diversity of consumers. Family members, visitors and fellow
  employees.
• Demonstrates a strong consumer / customer-service oriented behaviors. Treats consumers in a polite, professional manner. Handles consumer concerns, problems and issues in a manner that is helpful and
  responsive.
• Complies with Agency requirements for data submission
• Performs other related duties as assigned. Flexible to meet the on-going needs of the Agency

What qualifications you will need:

Education:

• High School Diploma or General Education diploma.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Certification as a Peer Recovery Coach within 1 year of employment required.

Experience:

• Minimum five (5) years working of related experience
• Minimum of two (2) years sustained sobriety

Other Key Qualifications

• In good standing with the credentialing agency for Certified Mental Health Peer Specialist in the state of Texas.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• To lead recovery groups/classes
• Ability to provide recovery support in the home setting
• Ability to guide individuals in their recovery from both mental illness and substance abuse
• Ability to write curriculums for recovery groups
• Skilled in providing recovery related educational support.

What we have to offer:

The Harris Center not only offers a competitive salary but also a suite of excellent benefits designed to enrich your life both professionally and personally. Imagine a future with a robust retirement plan complemented by our generous company matching – a testament to our investment in your long-term financial well-being. Experience the unique advantage of our prior service credit, accelerating your journey towards a more substantial Paid Time Off accrual, empowering you to enjoy well-deserved breaks.

Enjoy Cell Phone Discounts, exclusive entertainment deals through Tickets at Work, and a free Headspace subscription for mental wellness. Additionally, our Employee Assistance Program supports your overall well-being.

Take advantage of significant financial relief through student loan forgiveness as a valued member of The Harris Center team. As a qualifying entity, our employees are eligible for various student loan forgiveness programs, designed to alleviate the financial burdens associated with higher education.

What else you should know:

• Your workplace: Your daily base will be at the Emancipation Center 419 Emancipation Ave, Houston, TX. 77003
• This posting is associated with position #70273.

About us:

The Harris Center is the state-designated Local Mental Health Authority and Local Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD) Authority serving Harris County, Texas. As the largest behavioral and developmental disability care center in Texas, The Harris Center provides care to over 90,000 people and has an annual budget of over $300 million.

As part of its mission to transform the lives of people with behavioral health and IDD needs in the third largest county in the United States, The Harris Center provides a full continuum of services at 80 different sites across Harris County. In addition, services are provided in more than 40 different languages as well as sign language in order to better serve what is one of the largest communities in the nation.

By utilizing the unique expertise of its more than 2,500 employees, The Harris Center is committed to meeting the behavioral health and IDD needs of Harris County residents and giving them hope to live to their fullest potential.

Contributes to suicide care and prevention by embracing our values and applying a trauma-informed approach rooted in safety, trust, choice, collaboration, and empowerment.