Part-Time Bilingual Recovery Coach, RISE Team

Who We Are:

Since 1985, BHCHP’s mission has been to ensure unconditionally equitable and dignified access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in greater Boston. Over 12,000 homeless individuals are cared for by Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program each year. We are committed to ensuring that every one of these individuals has access to comprehensive health care, from preventative dental care to cancer treatment. Our clinicians, case managers, and behavioral health professionals work in more than 60 locations to serve some of our community’s most vulnerable—and most resilient—citizens.

From our earliest days as a program, we have always sought to do work that is transformational: recognizing our shared humanity; centering dignity, compassion, mutual respect and supporting the right of every individual to access the highest levels of health care and every staff member to reach their fullest potential. We continue to be committed to building bridges and breaking down barriers, including systemic racism which harms us all. We provide community-based health care services that are compassionate, dignified, and culturally appropriate, incorporating social determinants of health, with the goal of breaking down the physical and systemic barriers that our patients face.

Bilingual, Bicultural, LGBTQIA identifying, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color are encouraged to apply. 

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Job Summary:

Boston Health Care for the Homeless (BHCHP) is seeking a Bilingual Recovery Coach to work with its Reentry Initiatives for Support and Empowerment (RISE) team. The RISE team provides recovery support and overdose prevention services to individuals without stable housing that are incarcerated in Suffolk County. This includes access to Medication for Opiate Use Disorder (MOUD), case management, therapy, psychiatry, and recovery coaching

At BHCHP, we believe in a world without stigma. We advocate for the expansion of access to all types of addiction treatment, and we also recognize a parallel need to reduce the harms associated with drug use for people who do not seek treatment, who cannot currently access treatment, or who have recently relapsed. We do not require our recoverees to stop using before we start helping them, and we know that recovery is a life-long process. We let our patients, clients, and peers define what recovery means to them. Lived experience of substance use disorders, homelessness, and/or the criminal justice system would be a strong asset for this role and those with these experiences are encouraged to apply. Additionally, we are looking for someone who embraces the mission of BHCHP, and who is committed to offering hope to homeless, incarcerated and unstably housed individuals as they work towards achieving sustained recovery.

Hours: Part-time, 20 hours per week; Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30am-5pm or 9am-5pm AND Mondays, Wednesdays, or Fridays 10am-2pm (4-hour work day is flexible)

Responsibilities:

• With recoveree and team members, conducts initial needs assessment, reviews the recoveree’s substance use disorder (SUD) history, develops a wellness plan, and identifies the recoveree’s goals and expectations; works collaboratively with the recoveree and the care coordinators to develop a recovery-supportive care plan that includes services for treatment of SUDs, including evidence-based practices; engages with recoverees diagnosed with OUD, collaboratively identifying and addressing barriers to successful recovery while serving as role model, ally, and advocate.
• Provides overdose prevention education, post-overdose support, and resources as needed; provides timely and responsive support to recoverees in immediate risk of relapse or other unsafe behaviors during working hours and creates relapse prevention plans to support recoveree during non-business hours.
• Supports the recoveree in their process among the multiple systems which impact the recovery--including their recovery community, the addiction treatment system, the medical treatment system, and the recoveree’s own cultural/social co