Recovery Coach VUMC

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Organization: Team Firefly

Provides peer recovery support services to patients with substance use disorder (SUD) and will assist patients in achieving and sustaining recovery as defined by each individual patient, with some guidance. Facilitates patient access to recovery-oriented substance use disorder treatment, resources, and community recovery groups. Maintains ongoing patient support regardless of relapse and will serve as a motivator, ally, role model, sounding board, and advocate for patients with substance use disorders.

• Firefly is an outpatient clinical program at VUMC that provides comprehensive, multi-disciplinary care to pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorder. Offering services including prenatal and postpartum care, social work and peer recovery support, lactation and pediatric services, collaborative mental health care, intensive outpatient programming, group therapy, and health-related social needs support including transportation, clothing, food, and diapers, Firefly seeks to support women in recovery and their families through wholistic, trauma-informed care.

• 1 year of peer recovery support experience (STRONGLY PREFERRED)
• CPRS “Certified Peer Recovery Specialist” (STRONGLY PREFERRED)

• M-F | 40 hours/week | 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM | opportunity to sign up for after-hour shifts, but not a requirement

• Serves 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.
• Meets with patients in clinical and community settings to understand their needs and personal goals, support the exploration of potential positive and negative consequences associated with personal goals, and work collaboratively with the patient to remove obstacles that might interfere with goal attainment.
• Educates patients about addiction safe use practices, multiple pathways of recovery, and utilizes motivational enhancement techniques
• Conducts active outreach efforts to encourage attendance and participation in recovery-oriented, self-help, and pro-social groups.
• Works collaboratively with treatment team in support of evidence-based services to patients.
• Assists with access to treatment for patients, understanding and using systems and procedures to rapidly support identified needs of the patient and assists with data collection for quality assurance and program evaluation.

• Clinical Counseling (Novice):
  Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate clinical counseling in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
• Patient Assessment (Novice):
  Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate patient assessments in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
• Peer Leadership (Novice):
  The ability to show leadership and influence people of equal rank in an effort to accomplish team goals.

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