Recovery Coach

Job description

Who is Riverbend?

Riverbend provides top tier addiction recovery treatment, behavioral health services, and community re-entry services.

At Riverbend, we are devoted to providing the highest quality care to those we serve and to assemble a professional and compassionate, determined, yet patient employee team to deliver exceptional service.

Our Culture:

Mission first: Our mission is simple, but not easy. Deliver the highest level of professional and compassionate care to all we serve, whether they require addiction services, sober housing, outpatient clinical care, outreach services, community re-entry services, or any other needs that we may be able to deliver.

Cooperative Teamwork: Our mission is not easy, but when a team works together, anything is possible. We strive to assemble and operate efficient and caring teams to operate all our programs. We believe in collaboration, both for its problem-solving effectiveness, but we also value the comfort and perseverance that belonging to a strong team brings to the employee experience. It is more joyful and rewarding to go to work when you trust and care about the people you work with, and they trust and care about you.

Continuous Learning: Everyone brings skills to their job. At Riverbend, we want to keep building those skills and add new ones. Developing skills requires a humble, yet bold attitude. We only learn when we accept that we can always learn more, which requires humility. Still, we want all employees to be bold exercising the skills that they do have. Whether you come to Riverbend at the beginning of your employment journey, or you are a seasoned professional, we believe in developing your skill to the next level.

Skills Required:

You are an established team player and leader with the personal and leadership skills to elevate your team and peers. You have proven ability to maintain composure and exemplify to your team grace under pressure. You possess excellent organizational skills and can maintain prompt delivery of administrative scheduling and documentation.

The Opportunity:

The Recovery Coach is a person who is grounded in peer-assisted recovery. This is a non-clinical, strength-based peer-to-peer support service. A Recovery Coach serves as a personal guide and mentor to help individuals identify and navigate their individualized recovery journey and live a self-directed life. The invaluable expertise gained from lived experience is drawn upon to inspire peers toward sustainable recovery. As a Recovery Coach, you will promote positive self-identity by drawing on the strengths and resilience of your recoverees.

Responsibilities

• Support recoverees in their development of a Recovery Action Plan
• Assist and support recoverees in identifying, accomplishing, and celebrating their recovery goals
• Assist recoverees in identifying recovery capital as well as community/recovery resources that support their recovery goals
• Assist recoverees in creating personally meaningful links to treatment, peer recovery support services, and mutual aid and support them in their effort to cultivate recovery capital
• Serve as an advocate and assist recoverees in learning self-advocacy skills
• Provide emotional and social support, using coaching and mentoring techniques to uplift the recoveree’s awareness and understanding that they possess the inherent ability (and recovery capital) to support long-term, sustainable recovery.
• Collaborate with community partners and providers to best serve recoverees
• Ensure that recoverees progress notes, wellness plans, and other required documentation is completed professionally, accurately, and timely
• Attend training and supervision as required by Supervisor
• Meet recoverees where they are at, and support all pathways of Recovery.

Required

• Schedule Flexibility as we will be extended our hours and days
• Minimum High School degree (or equivalent)
• Must have successfully participated (or be willing to) in CCAR’s Recovery Coach Academy
• Proficiency in basic computer skills and ability to utilize Microsoft Office
• Valid MA Driver’s license
• This position requires the successful completion of a CORI check.

Preferences

• An LGBTQ2 Recovery Coach
• An Adolescent Recovery Coach
• A Bipoc Recovery Coach
• A strong sense of compassion and desire to support others on the recovery journey
• Experience with the addiction recovery process
• Familiarity with local support services, resources, and recovery community
• Capable of building an effective recovery coach-recoveree relationship
• Must have strong interpersonal skills to include:
• A commitment to teamwork
• Strong communication skills – both oral and written
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Strong problem solving (de-escalation) skills
• Holds a commitment to lower barriers and reduce the stigma that recoverees encounter on their recovery journey.

Physical demands

• Must be able to sit or stand for an extended period.
• Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 lbs.

Job Type: Full Time

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $22.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Application Question(s):

• Have you previously worked for Riverbend (formally known as Lowell House)?

Work Location: In person

Salary : $22