Recovery Support Specialist
Location: Horizons - Bridgeport, CT
Employment Type: Full Time | Tuesday-Saturday 11am-7pm
Company: Recovery Network of Programs
Recovery Network of Programs is hiring a Recovery Support Specialist with the following position duties and responsibilities.
- Provides recovery support through self-directed, strength-based approach to care. Utilizing principles based on the Recovery Coach Ten Components of Recovery.
- Promotes recovery by removing personal and environmental obstacles, linking persons to the recovery community and serving as a professional guide and mentor for person seeking recovery and their families.
- Maintains communications with community providers and builds a network of recovery support services to support program participants connection to recovery services after discharge, with emphasis on self-help groups, CCAR, recovery houses, sober events and programs, employment, and job services.
- Recognizes elements of crisis, implements an immediate course of action (in consultation with the supervisor) appropriate to the crisis and utilizes negative events to enhance overall treatment outcomes.
- Prepares agenda for supervision and utilizes supervision as needed to meet professional demands of the job.
- Identifies the needs of clients that cannot be met by the counselor/organization, explains rationale for the referral to the client, and assists the client to utilize the support systems and community resources.
- Meets all documentation requirements of position and program.
- Facilitates DTR groups and other relapse prevention.
- Observe meals, laundry, and smoke breaks.
- Assumes all other appropriate duties as deemed necessary by supervisor.