Recovery Coach

Job Details
Job Location
Keller - , WA
Salary Range
$23.63 - $23.63 Hourly
Description
CLOSING DATE: Open Until Filled, With Weekly Reveiws
POSITION: Recovery Coach
SALARY: $23.63 per hour
REPORTS TO: Chemical Dependency Manager
LOCATION: San Poil Treatment Center, Keller, WA
Basic Functions: This is a Non Exempt position.The primary responsibility of a Recovery Coach is to support the voices and choices of the people they help, removing obstacles to recovery and linking residents to a recovery community, and serve as a personal guide and mentor. Responsible for recovery support services at the treatment center, transitional housing, and other behavioral health settings serving as a motivator, recovery resource guide, mentor, and liaison to residents and their families.
Qualifications
Education and Training:

• Typically requires an AA degree or a high school diploma/GED and at least 36 months' relevant experience OR
• 2 years of lived experience in continuous recovery with successful formal program completion from any Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and/or personal experience with addiction in family members or loved ones.
• Certification as a Recovery Coach highly preferred or commit to obtaining CRC within 12 months of hire.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Requires knowledge/understanding of chemical dependency treatment modalities, services, and best practices.
• Requires a willingness to use additional counseling tools resulting from continued professional development.
• Requires creative problem solving skills and the ability to develop innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Requires experience meeting programmatic clinical deadlines.
• Requires a high degree of organizational skill.
• Requires knowledge of and commitment to adhere to confidentiality and professional boundaries.
• Requires excellent oral and writing skills, case management skills, and commitment to clear documentation.
• Requires an understanding of electronic health record systems and their appropriate use in a chemical dependency treatment setting.
• Requires the ability to communicate comfortably with clients, family members and significant others, and community resources and professionals about recovery-oriented topics, including the RC's personal recovery.
• Requires the ability to be able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Requires the ability to work under tense, demanding situations and responding appropriately and professionally in crisis situations.
• Requires the ability to organize and prioritize work and manage time effectively.
• Requires the ability to operate a computer and work with various computer software applications.
• Requires the ability to maintain case records using required forms, complete reports using the prescribed agency format (which meet the requirements of Tribal, State and federal guidelines.
• Requires the ability to maintain professional working relationships with co-workers, supervisors, and other professionals, providing timely and sufficient documentation of all referrals, follow-ups, crisis interventions, and other clinical interventions as prescribed by the program.
• Requires the ability to complete all required documentation in a professional and timely manner, as may be evidenced by work history, within time frames defined by established policies and procedures often under tense, demanding situations, responding appropriately, and professionally.
• Requires the ability to demonstrate creative problem solving skills, with the ability to develop innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Requires the ability to work flexible hours, evenings, weekends, and holidays as the work dictates to participate in outreach/prevention, community education activities within chemical dependency, make presentations and provide training to staff and clientele.
• Requires the ability to be highly organized with attention to detail, work effectively in collaboration with BHP and other Tribal Health Programs.
• The incumbent performs work of a sedentary to moderately active nature.
• Requires sufficient ambulatory ability to walk to project locations, to stand for extended periods of time, and to bend and stoop for limited periods of time.
• Requires sufficient arm-hand-eye coordination to operate a computer keyboard and pointing devises at a proficient level.
• Requires sufficient visual acuity to read technical documents and instructions.
• Requires the ability to lift, push, and pull objects of medium weight (less than 50 lbs.) on an occasional basis.
• Requires the ability to grasp, reach, push, and pull and move light weight work materials and supplies.
• Requires sufficient arm, hand, finger dexterity to use a personal computer keyboard, multimedia, and other office equipment.
• Requires sufficient hearing and speaking skills to project voice and communicate with staff, students, parents and other practitioners in small group settings and in one-on-one conversations.
• Requires visual acuity to read printed materials and computer screens.
• Must be willing to work flexible hours, evenings, weekends, and holiday as the work dictates.
• Must be able to drive in adverse weather conditions.
• Must be willing to work at various worksites when needed.

Note: Pursuant to Tribal Policy, if this position is safety sensitive it is subject to pre-employment drug testing. In addition, this position is subject to reasonable suspicion and post-accident drug testing.
TRIBAL MEMBER AND INDIAN PREFERENCE WILL APPLY; PREFERENCE WILL ALSO BE GIVEN TO HONORABLY DISCHARGED VETERANS WHO ARE MINIMALLY QUALIFIED.
If required of this position, you must possess and maintain a valid Washington State driver's license and be eligible for the Tribes' Vehicle Insurance. In addition, this position may be subject to pre-employment background clearances. If applicable, these clearances must be maintained throughout employment.
INFORMATION: Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Human Resources Office, P.O. Box 150, Nespelem, WA 99155, (509) 634-2201