ED Peer Recovery Coach AAMC
Listed on 2026-02-01
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Mental Health, Community Health, Health Promotion
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Position Objective
The Peer Recovery Coach provides non-clinical services intended to aid patients in establishing recovery from high risk alcohol and drug use problems. The Peer Recovery Coach will work as part of the hospital team to provide peer support and motivation to encourage patients to change their substance use behavior. This includes direct interventions with patients while in the hospital or in the community to help access treatment and other recovery support services.
The Peer Recovery Coach will see patients in the emergency department, on other assigned hospital units as well as conduct outreach and engagement in the community for patients following hospital discharge. Peer Recovery Coaches will develop service plans to promote successful linkage to referred services.
Essential
Job Duties
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Conducts brief interventions for patients that screen positive for risky 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 uses motivational interviewing techniques and other communication skills to support a plan for reducing or eliminating harmful drug and/or alcohol use.
- Works with hospital team members to identify community support services aligned with patient plan
- Works with other health providers and community resources collaboratively to support patient needs.
- Assists patient and family with understanding how to utilize community services.
- Reduces barriers for patients to access care including coordination of services such as securing appointments 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 and face to face community outreach and engagement with patients to assist with treatment and resource linkages and continued peer support.
- Conducts street outreach to locate and engage patients from hospital.
- Assists patients in setting personal recovery goals.
- Provides education on risks of overdose and assures that patient and significant others have naloxone and are trained to use.
- Models coping techniques and self-help strategies.
- Demonstrates ability to meet the productivity requirements set in accordance with program goals.
- Participates in trainings to continually gain new skills.
- Attends required staff and other meetings.
- Completes required documentation and other reports.
- Acts as a resource to other clinical team members on recovery support.
- Consults with hospital staff, social work as requested, even if patient does not screen positive.
- Notifies patient’s nurse before visiting the patient.
- Telephones treatment providers to verify patient showed up for appointment; and follow-up with any patient that misses an appointment.
- Demonstrates competencies for position within the first 90 days of employment.
- Satisfactorily meets requirements of position during periodic and annual evaluations.
The Peer Recovery Coach provides non-clinical services intended to aid patients in establishing recovery from high risk alcohol and drug use problems. The Peer Recovery Coach will work as part of the hospital team to provide peer support and motivation to encourage patients to change their substance use behavior. This includes direct interventions with patients while in the hospital or in the community to help access treatment and other recovery support services.
The Peer Recovery Coach will see patients in the emergency department, on other assigned hospital units as well as conduct outreach and engagement in the…
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