Peer Recovery Coach
2 weeks ago
**Peer Recovery Coach**
**Hours - 10:00pm-6:00am, Monday-Friday with every other weekend.**
With over 150 years of caring for our community and each other in the Washington DC area, Howard University Hospital has a world-renowned reputation for high-quality, patient-centric care. Howard University Hospital is the nation’s only teaching hospital located on the campus of a Historically Black University and has created a superior learning environment, with groundbreaking research and positive patient outcomes.
Howard University Hospital seeks to hire a Peer Recovery Coach who will embrace our rich and historic tradition of excellence. If you want to make a difference in someone’s life every day, consider a position with a team of professionals who are doing just that, making a difference.
***The Peer Recovery Coach**:
- Conducts brief interventions to patients that screen positive for alcohol and/or drug use.
- Identifies patient’s history of drug/alcohol use, treatment history, motivation to change behavior and other needs for community support services.
- Identifies patient’s readiness to change and use motivational interviewing techniques and other communication skills to support a plan for reducing or eliminating harmful drug and/or alcohol use.
- Works with staff and social worker to identify community support services.
- Assists patient and family with understanding how to utilize these community services.
- Assists patients in linking to community support services and substance treatment services including securing appointment and transportation.
- Acts as a peer support throughout the hospitalization and post-discharge, as appropriate to facilitate attainment of goals.
- Provides family members with recovery support materials.
- Provides telephone outreach to patients to assist with linkages and continued peer support.
- Models coping techniques and self-help strategies.
- Participates in trainings to continually gain new skills.
- Attends required staff and other meetings.
- High school diploma or G.E.D required.
- ** Must be actively engaged in his/her own recovery program with a minimum of** 3 years **of demonstrated personal recovery and sustained abstinence from alcohol and/or drug use.**:
- Actively in recovery with a minimum of 2 years of professional experience in a substance use disorder setting providing peer support/navigation; and/or Certified Peer Specialist through the DC Department of Behavioral Health; and/or a Recovery Coach.
**At Howard University Hospital our job is to care for you. We do this by offering**:
Work life balance
Recognition and rewards for professional expertise
**COVID-19 Vaccination**
Howard University Hospital requires all external applicants to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 before commencing employment. External Applicants may be required to furnish proof of vaccination and, if offered, may elect to be vaccinated at a designated Howard University Hospital location.
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