Part-Time Certified Recovery Specialist

TASC has an immediate opening for a Part-Time Certified Recovery Specialist (CRS) in our state-recognized Warm Handoff (WHO) program at Tower Health Reading Hospital Emergency Department. Share your experience, strength, and hope while helping hospital patients suffering from a substance use disorder access immediate admission into various levels of Drug and Alcohol treatment.

Compensation-

• 3rd shift - $24 per hour
• 2nd shift - $22 per hour
• 1st shift - $20 per hour

Compensation:

$20 - $24 per hour

Responsibilities:

• Answers consult requests from hospital personnel and meets with opiate overdose survivors, patients presenting symptoms of opiate withdrawal, and patients identified with a presumptive substance use disorder (SUD).
• Utilizes Motivational Interviewing (MI) techniques and discusses treatment and recovery options with each patient, providing support, encouragement, and hope.
• Conducts bed searches and secures admission into detoxification and/or residential treatment services for patients expressing a desire for help.
• Forwards all required admission criteria to treatment providers and secures placement and transportation for the patient.
• Enters timely and thorough documentation into EPIC and CPR-Web as appropriate.
• Adheres to all Reading Hospital rules, including confidentiality and HIPAA regulations, when using the EPIC database system. Understands that he/she may not access EPIC or review patient records except in the standard course of providing work-related services to that patient.
• Provides follow-up information to TASC and COCA as required.
• Provides substance abuse and treatment resource information, including information regarding Recovery Support Services, to patients and family members as requested.
• Maintains strict adherence to confidentiality requirements, HIPAA, and ethical standards during interactions with all clients, family members and significant others, attorneys, case workers, and referral sources.
• Attends all meetings, conferences, and trainings as they relate to job functions.
• Maintains and develops drug and alcohol professional knowledge by attending required trainings, workshops, seminars, conferences, etc.
• Maintains CRS certification.
• Represents TASC in a positive and professional manner at all times.

Qualifications:

Must be able to work 3rd and 2nd shifts on the weekends and Holidays. Must be able to pass a UDS, a Criminal Background check, and a medical onboarding process. Must have 3 years of continuous sobriety from a drug addiction or alcoholism.

CRS certification required. Computer and Microsoft Office skills are necessary. Knowledge of 12-step recovery programs such as AA or NA is required.

About Company

Treatment Access and Services Center (TASC) is a nonprofit drug and alcohol agency in downtown Reading, Pa. TASC's mission is to provide drug and alcohol treatment as an alternative to incarceration for nonviolent criminal offenders and other individuals.

As an intervention agency, TASC conducts substance use screenings, assessments, and treatment referrals for inmates at the Berks County Jail System and emergency room patients at Tower Health/Reading Hospital as part of the Warm Hand-Off program. TASC provides urinalysis testing and works closely with the Berks County Treatment Court programs and the Adult Probation & Parole Office.

Finally, through the Awaken Mental Health Case Management program, TASC provides support to adults with severe mental illness throughout Berks County. Together, through its many service units, the 60 employees working at TASC help thousands of individuals overcome the devastating effects of substance use and mental illness each year.