RECOVERY SPECIALIST - Cooper University Health Care

Recovery Specialist Job Description
Reports To: Program Supervisor-OORP Program
Position Summary:
The recovery specialist possesses the knowledge, skills and experience necessary to competently provide non-clinical assistance and recovery supports while maintaining follow-up with 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;
• Assisting with the identification of and participation in the recovery community;
• 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 individual’s preference and his/her assessed needs
• Support the individual as they move through the stages of change
• Assist the individual with gaining skills and resources, including MAT
• Providing on-call coverage
• Providing telephone and face to face contact follow-up for at least six 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.

Experience: Two (2) years' experience in the guiding principles of recovery

Preferred Qualifications
Bi-lingual
Certified Peer Recovery Specialist training
3- days of DMHAS ethic training