Recovery Coach

Recovery Coach

Program/ Location: Community Based Recovery Support program (CBRS)/ Plymouth
Education: High School diploma preferred or lived experience with substance use disorder & recovery
Pay Range: $21 - $25 per hour (Experience & education dependent)
Status: Full time
Shift: Monday through Friday 8am-4:30pm

Benefits 

• Medical Insurance  
• Dental Insurance  
• Vision Insurance  
• Long & short term disability 
• Discounted auto/home and renters insurance  
• 403b - Retirement 
• FSA & DCA 
• PFML
• Employee Assistance Program 
• Bonuses & Referral 
• Eligibility for free classes to become a Licensed Counselor or Recovery Coach 
• Education days to use towards CEU's 
• Free meals at select programs and when available 
• Unmatched Leave Time (FT employees can earn up to 3 weeks in first year) 

About Us

High Point provides a range of community-based services including Community Based Recovery Support (CBRS). CBRS was created to provide additional support to people as they work on their recovery within their communities. Often, clients who have been in an addiction treatment or Section 35 facility and are transitioning back into their communities' benefit from extra support.

High Point & Affiliated Organizations is a health and human service agency whose mission is to treat and prevent substance use disorders and mental illness. High Point has programs located throughout Southeastern Massachusetts offering a full continuum of care for substance use and mental health treatment, including inpatient, outpatient, residential, and community-based services. Programs and services also assist survivors of abuse, violence, and families experiencing homelessness. High Point believes that everyone has inherent goodness, worth, and dignity. Our goal is to help individuals and families achieve personal change and improve their quality of life.

Recovery Coach Requirements

• Must present as courteous and professional at all times.
• Demonstrated flexibility and ability to perform multiple tasks.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to organize ideas in logical and clear fashion.
• Proficient and knowledge of basic computer skills and software programs including the ability to learn, use and train HPAO`s electronic medical records.
• Must have the ability to work with others in cooperative and collaborative manner.
• An understanding of the relationship between substance use and mental health issues and/or self-help programs.
• An understanding of boundaries and ethics.
• Comply with Federal Regulations, 42 CFR Part 2, Substance Use Disorder Confidentiality Regulations and HIPAA Regulations.
• Certification in the HPAO approved de-escalation program.
• Ability to work collaboratively with alcohol/drug dependent clients from diverse legal, social, economic, ethnic, cultural and racial backgrounds as well as family members, insurance providers and outside providers.
• Possess the ability to maintain healthy boundaries.
• Knowledge of appropriate confidentiality policies and procedures.
• Ability to work independently without direct supervision while adhering to the program’s philosophical team approach.
• Established contacts and recovery partnerships in the community.
• Demonstrated ability to work with a diverse population.
• Knowledge of the addiction treatment services system and recovery support services.
• Capacity to respond to tasks in a timely manner

Recovery Coach Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide emotional and social support.
• Share recovery experience and use coaching and mentoring.
• Support members in making positive life changes and developing skills to facilitate their recovery.
• Assist members to discuss and try new strategies for developing recovery supportive friendships, reconnecting or improving family relationships, and identifying and using recovery-community networks.
• Assist members in creating personally meaningful links to treatment, peer recovery support services, and mutual aid and support them in their efforts to build their capacity to move between and among these services and supports as
  needed.
• Act in an open and transparent way as a role model and living example of a person in recovery.
• When appropriate, use the peer relationship to assist with motivation and facilitate connections to primary and specialty medical, dental, and mental health services as well as social services, including applying for benefits and navigating other relevant systems, such as criminal justice and child protection/child welfare.
• Act as a recovery liaison and support the member in preparing for or accompanying the member to meetings with, for example, probation officers, social workers, and child protection/child welfare workers.
• Provide linguistically appropriate and culturally sensitive peer recovery supports that embrace the diversity of members’ identities, including racial, ethnic, gender/gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, physical and intellectual
  challenges, and their chosen pathway to recovery.
• Serve as an advocate for members and assist members in learning self-advocacy skills.
• Act as a mentor, assisting the member’s recovery process and supporting the member’s goals and decisions; the RC must also support the member in creating and enacting a wellness plan.
• Provide Recovery Coaching services in a person-centered and strength-based manner.
• Provide temporary assistance with transportation to essential self-help, peer support, and medical and behavioral health appointments while transitioning to community-based transportation resources.
• Deliver services on a mobile basis to members in any setting that is safe for the member and staff.
• Using a peer mentoring framework, work collaboratively with the pregnant and/or parenting member to create
• Other duties as assigned by the Program Director.

Recovery Coach Qualifications

• High school diploma and lived experience of substance use and recovery.
• Valid driver’s license, clean driving record and ownership of a car.
• Preferred successfully participated in trainings and/or coursework that is designed to prepare individuals to serve as RCs.