What are the responsibilities and job description for the Recovery Specialist position at Gateway Rehabilitation Center?
Job Description
Job Description
Description :
Are you in recovery and have the desire to help others address their addiction? If so, we would like to talk with you!
Gateway Rehab has a dynamic opportunity in Westmoreland, PA for a Recovery Specialist who will provide information and opportunities for recovering individuals to direct their own recovery and advocacy processes.
Responsibilities
- Establishes a relationship with patients that displays dignity and respect as reflected in professional language and appropriate boundaries.
- Teaches and supports the acquisition and utilization of skills needed to facilitate recovery.
- Promotes knowledge of and linkage to available services, options, and choices.
- Promotes the utilization of natural resources within the community, other agencies, and services systems. Arranges referrals to other agencies, community programs, and other resources to meet the needs of the patient and family.
- Facilitates the development of a sense of wellness, self-worth, and identification of unique strengths.
- Seeks on-going individual input into services content to address individual needs and goals while supporting and encouraging individual goal planning and internalization of the recovery process.
- Documents interactions and progress in patient’s electronic medical record; completes all documentation within required time frame.
- Participates in group supervision and individual supervision.
Knowledge, Abilities, and Skills
Requirements :
Other Requirements
Work Conditions
Gateway Rehab is AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER - M / F / V / D
