• Provide peer-based recovery support: advocacy and facilitation for accessing services, coaching and encouragement to individuals contemplating or actively seeking help with substance use recovery.
• Engage in relationship building and active listening with individuals to establish rapport, as evidenced by empathetic and active listening, communicating in a non-judgmental way, recognizing addictive behavior.
• Conduct self in an ethical manner by adhering to the PCACB codes of ethics, standards of practice, and Council policy and procedures.

 
DAILY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Work with Warm Handoff Partners to assess, identify, engage and help individuals transition and follow through with treatment and support services. Facilitate service recipients’ opportunity to access treatment and services in order to support long term recovery.
2. Work under the guidelines of Philadelphia’s Pre-Arrest Diversion (PAD) program leadership, following policy and procedures to support the work of the PAD program.
3. As appropriate, perform drug and alcohol screening and assessment for targeted individuals to identify appropriate level of care.
4. Provide a “warm hand-off” to at-risk individuals, overdose survivors and their family members as they are brought into the hospital’s emergency department.
5. Provide recovery education for every phase of the recovery journey from pre-recovery engagement, recovery initiation, recovery stabilization, and sustained recovery maintenance.
6. Provide telephonic recovery support and recovery checkups for project participants and their family members.
7. Identify emergency or crisis situations and facilitate access to appropriate resources, negotiating and connecting individuals with resources and navigating the systems.
8. When appropriate, assist in the development and enhancement of an individual’s comprehensive individualized recovery plan, recognizing many pathways to recovery, accessing and advocating for recovery and community resources.
9. Collaborate with institutions to provide effective recovery support services to identified individuals.
10. Educate staff on referral to recovery support procedures and services.
11. Actively identify and support linkages to community resources (communities of recovery, educational, vocational, social, cultural, spiritual resources, mutual self- help groups, professional services, etc.) that support the recovering person’s goals and interests. This will involve a collaborative effort including the recovering person, agency staff and other relevant stakeholders.
12. Maintain project logs, reports and accurate records in appropriate files and database(s), adhering to program standards.
13. Maintain confidentiality regarding information received during the facilitation of recovery support services – maintain current understanding of federal, state and local confidentiality rules and regulations.
14. Engage in continuing professional development relative to recovery support services, applying practical and professional knowledge and experience.
15. Maintain CRS credential, in good standing.
16. Other duties as directed by Executive Director and/or Management Staff.

COMPENSATION: Commensurate with experience and other qualifications.