Lead Recovery Coach Vanderbilt, One Hundred Oaks

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Team Firefly

Provides peer recovery support services to patients with substance use disorder (SUD), assisting patients in achieving and sustaining long-term recovery by serving as a motivator, ally, role model, sounding board, and advocate. Facilitates patient access to recovery-oriented substance use disorder treatment, resources, and community recovery groups. Serves in a leadership capacity on the peer recovery team, helping to organize, educate, motivate, and support other peers in serving patients and meeting programmatic goals, and as a liaison between peers and other internal and external team members.

Assists program leadership in organizing, maintaining, storing, updating, and communicating policies, procedures, materials and guidance related to the peer recovery role, making available to other peers when requested.

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 required;
  Additional leadership 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

• Meets with patients in clinical 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.
• 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.
• Educates patients about addiction safe use practices, multiple pathways of recovery, and utilizes motivational enhancement techniques.
• Conducts active outreach efforts to encourage attendance, participation in recovery‑oriented, self‑help, and pro‑social groups, and engagement with program.
• Leads peer data management efforts, including data collection and monitoring, consistent communication with program’s data lead, and troubleshooting data issues with peer team.
• Supports clinic leadership in peer‑related tasks such as onboarding new peers, monitoring inventory of peer‑distributed support items and materials, monitoring and communicating peer equipment, supply and training needs, etc.
• May serve in a supervisory capacity for other peer recovery specialists with appropriate certification, training and support from program leadership.

• Clinical Counseling (Novice):
  Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate clinical counseling in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
• Patient Assessment…