RECOVERY SPECIALIST - Cape Regional Medical Center
Cape May Court House, NJ 08210
About the Job
Recovery Specialist
The recovery specialist possesses the knowledge, skills and experience necessary to competently provide non-clinical assistance and recovery supports while maintaining follow-up with Recovery Center participants. The recovery specialist will work with individuals to support and strengthen their capacity to engage in their personal recovery.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Educating individual on how to appropriately navigate treatment, social service and recovery support systems
- Being a positive role model to individuals and their families by sharing experiential knowledge, hope, and skills
- Maintaining professional relationships with individuals and families in order to assist individuals in the treatment engagement and retention process
- Reinforcing, guiding, and assuring individuals and their families that recovery is possible, and is built on multiple strengths, coping abilities, and resources of each individual.
- Collaboration with individuals to develop a Recovery Plan
- Assisting in establishing and sustaining a family, social and community environment supportive of recovery
- Advocating for appropriate and effective community treatment and recovery;
- Empowering individuals to make self-determined and self-directed choices about their recovery pathway
- Provide recovery support based on the individual’s preference and his/her assessed needs
- Assist the individual with gaining skills and resources, including MOUD
- Providing telephonic, on-call coverage/support
- Providing telephone and face to face contact follow-up for a period of no less than 6-months.
- Support services are individualized to the strengths and culture of the individual rather than delivered as a scripted or pre-packaged set of services
- Refer individuals to the South Jersey Aids Alliance for screenings for HIV and hepatitis.
- Provides services to clients/families in their native language or is able to procure the services of a translator.
- As appropriate to scope of practice, assists in the data collection for each assigned individual
Minimal Qualifications:
- Education: High School Diploma or equivalency
- Licensure: Valid Driver's License required preferred.
- Experience: Two (2) years' experience in the guiding principles of recovery
- Complete the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) or Certified Peer Recovery Specialist-5 day training
- 3- days of DMHAS Ethic Training
- Bilingual preferred
- Obtain the national Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialist accreditation
Must complete the following in 3 months
- Harm Reduction Training
- NJPN Medication for Opioid Use Disorder MOUD
- NJPN Advances Medication for Opioid Use Disorder MOUD
- National CLAS standards,
- DMHAS 3-day Ethics training
- Motivational Interviewing and Stages of Change
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Source : Cape Regional Medical Center