Classification: Part Time; Non-exempt hourly
Hours: 8 hours per week
Supervisor: BWROC Center Manager
Overview:
The Certified Peer Recovery Coach is a para-professional with strong links to case management. The CPRC works in cooperation with a case manager, primary counselor, and community support systems. The CPRC has a responsibility to evaluate participants’ needs for support, essential services, and personal encouragement throughout their course of recovery seeking efforts with BWROC. This is a part time position, one day a week, for 8 hours. This position may be perfect for you if you have 2 years of continuous recovery under your belt and have always wanted to do more to help others struggling.
Responsibilities:
- Work with any partner agency setting up recovery after care and providing on-site recovery support services.
- Transporting participants to treatment and back.
- Deliver recovery coaching to participants.
- Establishes a wellness plan with each participant and serves as a guide to achieve set goals.
- Meets with and/or communicates with participants each week.
- Demonstrates knowledge of trauma informed care.
- Demonstrates positive beliefs and feelings regarding participants with varying levels of needs and multiple pathways to recovery.
- Collects participant data and conducts follow up to ensure long-term participant engagement.
- Helps navigate recovery support systems.
- Able to share personal recovery experiences and can model effective coping techniques.
- Provides participants with ongoing education regarding substance use, mental health, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C, tobacco, nutrition and exercise and other health and wellness information.
- Finds creative and effective solutions to complex problems and justifies prioritization when needed.
- Provides peer support in a positive and supportive manner through coaching, role modeling and mentoring to assist members in developing skills to achieve their goals.
- Serves as a liaison between administration, staff, clients, and volunteers.
- Effective written and verbal communication, including ability to communicate in a professional manner.
- Ensure emergency basic needs are addressed immediately ( i.e., food, temporary housing, transportation, clothing, etc.);
- Make follow - up calls after all referrals are made.
- Ensure all referrals and participant meetings are documented in case notes and in participant’s file.
- Ability to facilitate recovery support groups as needed and addiction education groups.
- Ensure constant communication is made with the criminal justice monitoring agency ( i.e. Probation/parole/community corrections officers, etc.) to inform them of services BWROC is providing.
- Recovery Planning -- facilitate (via personal coaching) the transition from a professionally directed service plan to a self - directed Recovery Plan. The goal should be to transition from professionally assisted recovery initiation to personally directed, community supported recovery maintenance.
- Provide case notes for every intervention (i.e., appointment, phone call, etc.) in the participant services database.
- Maintain confidentiality and the highest standards of ethical practices personally and professionally.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Required
- High school diploma/G.E.D.
- Must have or meet the qualifications for recovery coach certification(s) from Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Certified Peer Recovery Coach and/or CCAR certificate holder.
- Must be willing to acquire Master Life Coach certificate; MDHHS Certified Community Navigator; and Compliance Training Group Diversity and Inclusion certificate.
- CPRC must have a working knowledge of the drug and alcohol treatment system and a demonstrated commitment to the recovery community.
- Must have two (2) continuous years of sobriety.
Reasonable Accommodations Statement:
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodation may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.?
Physical Demands and Working Environment
The conditions herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Environment: Standard office, and community settings.
Physical: typically work in office settings, healthcare establishments, and community buildings. They may also be required to travel to attend conferences or meetings or to visit other sites.
Vision: See in the normal visual range with or without correction; vision sufficient to read computer screens and printed documents.
Hearing: Hear in the normal audio range with or without correction
The company has reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and basic duties have been included. It is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. This document does not represent a contract of employment, and the company reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as the company may deem appropriate.
