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Position Description
Position: Recovery Coach-REAL Team
Full Time, 40 hours per week
Purpose: The REAL Program Recovery Coach will act as the contact point for all referrals to the REAL Program and will spend most of their time in the field. The REAL Program Outreach is the primary liaison with law enforcement, community, and others making REAL Program referrals. The REAL Program Recovery Coach will provide screening, outreach, and engagement to individuals referred to REAL Program. As such, this position must ensure effective and efficient communication and collaboration between all partners involved in referring and receiving referrals for REAL Program. The REAL Program Recovery Coach must develop and maintain positive, collaborative relationships with all community partners and other service providers to best support REAL Program participants.
Position Requirements:
Respond to community referrals and interact with individuals who might need support, coordination services, or ongoing referrals to external services.
Qualifications and Skills:
· Demonstrate ability providing street-based outreach and engagement to offenders and difficult to engage populations. Street outreach requires the ability to easily navigate city streets on foot and tolerate a variety of weather conditions. Street outreach experience a plus.
· Demonstrate experience developing positive, collaborative relationships with law enforcement and social services providers to effectively serve mutual individuals.
· Understanding of substance use disorders and harm reduction strategies along with a demonstrated passion for serving individuals experiencing homelessness and behavioral health challenges highly desired.
· Understands and adheres to state and federal confidentiality regulations.
· Conducts self ethically and professionally at all times.
· Ability to be in rotation for 24/7 on-call response to law enforcement for arrest diversion referrals.
· Ability to flex schedule when necessary to accommodate special program needs.
· People with lived experience with behavioral health system involvement, arrest and incarceration, trauma, and systemic inequities are encouraged to apply.
· REAL Program attempts to reflect the visible diversity of the community they serve. Individuals with visible diversity and other diversity that may not be visible (e.g., BIPOC peers, trans peers, lesbian/gay/bisexual peers, peers with visible and non-visible disabilities) are strongly encouraged to apply.
· Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
· Must have competence using computer, photocopier, fax machine, smartphone and entering data into electronic database.
· Must possess a valid WA state Driver’s License and be able to use a program/personal vehicle.
Physical Abilities: This position spends a significant portion of its time working in the community with clients in a wide variety of settings, and requires the ability to safely enter and exit client homes and community facilities, navigate stairs and sidewalks and other unpredictable terrain in homes and facilities outside the DBH office. In addition, this position requires driving to and from multiple sites in the community.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $22.17 - $22.67 per hour
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Schedule:
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Work Location: In person
Full Time
Ancillary Healthcare
$76k-101k (estimate)
06/10/2023
08/24/2024
discoverybh.org
PORT TOWNSEND, WA
<25
Private
SANDRA SELLANI
<$5M
Ancillary Healthcare
Discovery Behavioral Health is a provider of psychiatric health and wellness programs for children.