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4 days ago
Join our team at UMass Med School as a Recovery Support Specialist, where you will play a vital role in providing peer recovery support services to patients with substance use disorder (SUD). Your primary responsibility will be to assist patients in achieving sustained recovery by facilitating access to recovery-oriented substance use disorder treatment, resources, and community recovery groups.
Key Responsibilities:- Serve as a liaison between the recovery community, the addiction treatment system, the medical treatment system, and the patient's community, family, and social context to facilitate connections across systems of care.
- Engage with patients identified with SUD referred by UMMS, meeting with them prior to discharge to facilitate patient access to next-stage treatment.
- Work collaboratively with the treatment team to implement evidence-based services to patients with SUD, helping patients navigate the healthcare system and social service system.
- Provide peer counseling and support patients in establishing treatment goals and achieving and maintaining recovery, addressing barriers to successful recovery and serving as a role model and advocate.
- Conduct active outreach efforts to encourage attendance and participation in recovery-oriented, self-help, and pro-social groups, assisting with access to treatment for SUD and co-occurring conditions.
- Develop a relapse prevention/intervention plan with patients and care team, monitoring patients' progress and evaluating outcome using a patient tracking system.
- Current Certification as a Recovery Coach or Peer Specialist.
- Minimum of 3 years in sustained recovery.
- Reliable transportation and comprehensive insurance coverage.
- Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and leadership skills.
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a multidisciplinary team of psychologists, physicians, social workers, and nurses.
- Strong advocacy skills along with knowledge of community-based services, resources, and local recovery community.
- Comfort with multiple pathways to recovery from SUD and willingness to embrace a patient-centered approach that recognizes an individual's preferences and autonomy.
- Comfort in working in both medical and social service settings.
- Clinical skills in motivational enhancement strategies.
- Ability to provide accurate feedback without judgment or discomfort.
- Flexibility to adapt to unforeseen needs or circumstances.
- Excels at problem-solving and multi-tasking, organized, efficient, and goal-directed.
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships with patients/families and staff.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Effective use of the Internet and Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Ability to handle confidential information.
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