Certified Recovery Coach

Description

The Certified Recovery Coach is responsible for promoting a recovery based approach to care with an emphasis on respect, self-direction, and empowerment by providing peer support, personal assistance, education on community resources, and other supportive services, for individuals with a substance use disorder. They will work closely with individuals to promote stability and wellness in recovery, and hope. The Certified Recovery Coach will identify publicly as a person in recovery who is now using that experience to provide individual and group support to individuals receiving services through Victory Programs at our various locations.

Location: The Jamaica Plain Recovery Center is a ‘recovery-oriented sanctuary anchored in the heart of the community,’ delivering peer-to-peer recovery support services, and providing a safe, supportive, healing space for individuals in recovery using a volunteer/member base, guided by peer staff, to deliver services and provide multiple pathways to recovery.

Essential Functions:

• Provide members with strength-based one-on-one peer support, wellness planning, recovery capital and pathway exploration.
• Provide support in overcoming barriers and navigating the recovery system, as well as the greater recovery community.
• Run a variety of recovery groups in Victory Programs’ various programs.
• Assist individuals in identifying and/or overcoming barriers to recovery.
• Assist individuals in identifying, developing, and achieving their own personal goals.
• Connect individuals to recovery support systems while encouraging hope, optimism, and health.
• Assist in building skills that promote the person’s recovery and self-sufficiency.
• Provide appropriate referrals to care, connection and other services that recoverees may be interested in.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation/record keeping in electronic health records.
• Share personal recovery experiences appropriately, if/when applicable, and demonstrate effective coping techniques and self-help strategies.
• Meet with individuals and families post-overdose (if the recoveree agrees).
• Enforce all policies and procedures of Victory Programs, Inc.
• Work collaboratively with all staff to provide individualized services to all clients.
• Attend supervision with the Recovery Coach Supervisor, or their designee.
• Act in accordance with Victory Programs Standards of Excellence & Philosophy Care, including maintaining professional ethics, boundaries, and client confidentiality, and working from a strength-based perspective.
• Provide milieu coverage as needed at the Peer Recovery Center, including: maintaining and assessing the integrity of the program’s therapeutic milieu; empowering clients to act in accordance with the guidelines of the program; assisting clients in self-administration of medications; conducting controlled substance counts; answering phones and the front door.

Non-Essential Functions:

• Represent the program in the community and to designated funders, as requested by supervisor. 
• Participate and support the agency in program holiday events, State House rallies, fundraising and advocacy events, HIV/AIDS rally and walk, and any additional functions.
• Perform other duties as deemed necessary by your supervisor or their designee.

Required Qualifications:

The successful candidate is someone who has accepted their substance use history, has learned to live with and manage the daily challenges of recovery, and has attained a level of personal growth and healing that gives them the understanding, insight and motivation to help others.

• High school or equivalent (required)
• Must demonstrate an understanding and belief in the recovery process and Recovery Oriented Systems of Care model.
• At least 2 years sustained and uninterrupted recovery at the time of hire per Massachusetts requirements.
• Completion of Recovery Coach Academy and Ethical Considerations for Recovery Coaching training.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certified Addiction Recovery Coach (CARC) certification obtained and all necessary CARC requirements maintained every 2 years once thereafter.
• Knowledge of multiple pathways to recovery support systems, including but not limited to 12-step support groups, faith-based groups, harm reduction services, SMART Recovery, Life Ring; and providing direct service.
• Ability to act with integrity and compassion and foster a culture of mission, trust, respect and accountability for outcomes.
• Ability to demonstrate cultural awareness and competency, including the ability to understand, respond and work effectiv