ACCS Recovery Coach

The role

The ACCS Recovery Coach provides peer counseling, mentor, and outreach services to clients with substance use disorder. This person works within a multidisciplinary team to provide rehabilitation, education, and crisis intervention.

What you will do

• Provides mentor and outreach services to clients with substance use disorder or needs.
• Provides peer counseling and support to validate clients experiences and provide guidance.
• Provides expertise and consultation from a mental health/substance use consumer perspective to the team.
• Collaborates with the team to promote client self-determination and decision-making.
• Assists clients identify, understand, and combat stigma and discrimination.
• Assists team members to identify and understand culture-wide stigma and discrimination.
• Increases awareness of and support client participation in consumer self-help programs.
• Serves as the liaison between the team and consumer-run programs.
• Organizes and leads individual and group social and recreational activities.

Required qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Certified Addictions Recovery Coach (CARC)
• Candidate who identifies as being in recovery from a substance use disorder and is willing to share details of his or her personal recovery experience
• Enthusiastic about providing support to clients in early recovery from a substance use disorder and is open to multiple pathways of recovery from substance use
• Ability to work flexibly and collaboratively with multi-disciplinary team
• Valid driver’s license
• Access to personal vehicle
• Good driving record
• Skills and competence to establish supportive trusting relationships with persons with severe and persistent mental illnesses
• Respect for client rights and personal preferences in treatment

Nice to have

• Bilingual skills
• Experience with multicultural populations
• Related training (e.g., certified occupational therapy assistant, home health care aide)
• Work experience (e.g., teaching)
• Life experience

Benefits

• Competitive package of compensation and benefits

About the company

Aspire Health and Community Services is a compassionate, accountable community. The organization believes that mental health is the foundation of a person’s overall health.