What are the responsibilities and job description for the Recovery Coach position at Telos Transition LLC?
Description:
Job Description: Recovery Coach
Time commitment: Part-time 24-32 hours per week, potential for full-time
Reports to: Anthem House Director
Status: Full-Time; At-Will Employee
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Take students to weekly recovery groups in the community
- Create individualized treatment plans for boys in recovery
- Coach students and hold them accountable on actualizing plans
- Assist in staffing shifts, helping things go right each weeknight
- Use the Pyramid of Influence in helping students recover
- Gives oversight to drug tests
- Proactively teach students principles of recovery
- Work with the students on their dailies
- Report in treatment team weekly
- Respond to parent questions as needed
- Plan and execute weekly fun and recovery activities
- Enforcing student rules
- Monitoring and carrying out consequences under the direction of the shift supervisor
- Charting in each student's medical record on the HQ database
- Communicating and reporting to shift supervisor
- Supporting and assisting other Telos departments in their job descriptions (i.e.: nursing appointments, education testing, grading, tutoring, general cleaning and maintenance, answering telephones, shopping, transporting) as allowed by staffing ratios
- Participating on assigned committees or special assignments
- Assisting with runaway retrieval
- Participating in therapeutic holds and restraints
- Attending and maintaining current certifications such as CPR and first aid
Qualifications:
- Substance Use Disorder Counselor Certificate (preferred but not required)
- Experience working with adolescent boys with emotional disorders
- Experience working with SU disorders
- Experience with mindfulness skills
- Experience with the 12-step model of recovery and other researched based models of recovery
- Inspiring interpersonal skills
- Organized
- Excellent verbal skills
- Excellent written skills
- Exceptional relationship skills
- Timely
- Dependable and reliable
- Ability to hold appropriate boundaries
- Ability to receive and carry out instruction
- Genuine care and concern for others