Position Highlights
Are you passionate about substance abuse treatment and making a lifelong impact on teens and their families?
- Be part of a supportive team environment and inclusive work culture.
- Build skills and experiences following an evidence-based model.
- Lead adolescents in discovering reinforcers that will promote internal and external motivators for positive change.
- Inspire solutions to handling problems without drugs and alcohol by focusing on the rewards of staying substance free.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Assists clients in identifying and advocating their own recovery goals.
- Utilizes appropriate program models, including motivational interventions by informing and educating on establishing or strengthening their own recovery strategies.
- Conducts program specific assessments and screens as indicated.
- Collaborates with those served to create individualized and person-centered treatment plans as indicated by program requirements.
- Conducts skills teaching to assist clients as needed.
- May provide crisis intervention or de-escalation as needed.
- Provides case management. Works in close collaboration with the client’s natural supports and treatment teams. Connects to prosocial activities. Provides crisis intervention and de-escalation as needed.
- Participates in interventions to help reduce health care disparities, which may include screening for Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) such as housing, medical insurance, food security and transportation to identify and then help resolve barriers to healthcare.
- Complies and shares knowledge of appropriate community resources and assists in linking clients to behavioral health and addiction follow up care, natural (family, friends) supports, community resources including LGBTQ+, Veteran’s and/or other support groups in a culturally informed, strength-based manner.
- Provide follow-up engagement support including but not limited to brief recovery coaching, relapse prevention and safety planning support and inclusion of family involvement where appropriate.
- Maintains documentation in compliance with agency and program standards.
- Participates in staff meetings, supervision, training, and other meetings as assigned.
- Transports clients as required by program.
- Additional duties as required
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education: Lived experience establishing and maintaining recovery from mental health or substance use condition(s) as required by position.
Experience: 2+ years working with identified populations and specifically as an RSS preferred. Self identifies as an individual with mental health and or substance use disorder in long term recovery.
Licensure/Certification/Registration: Recovery Support Specialist Certification from Advocacy Unlimited, Recovery Coach Certification from CCAR, or an equivalent certification related to the field of Recovery Support required or must be obtained within 6 months of hire. Valid Driver’s License required.