Build YOUR career! Family Continuity is rapidly expanding its energetic workforce to lead fast paced, innovative clinical programming throughout Massachusetts. This is an amazing opportunity to become part of our new Community Partner Program! The Community Partner Program is an innovative program that integrates behavioral health with physical health and focuses on “whole person wellness”.
Position Summary
The Behavioral Health Community Partner Recovery Coach will work with the BHCP team to support Enrollees participating in CP supports and activities, and utilize effective, dignified, empowering and creative engagement strategies to ensure Enrollees are at the center and lead in their BHCP services.
Essential Functions
- Provide support to outreach, engage and assist enrollees in identifying their recovery goals and developing recovery plans.
- Provide linkages to recovery-oriented, peer support self-help supports and services and community-based mental health, substance use disorder, and family supports programs.
- Provide assistance with navigating the healthcare system and provide support/assistance with transitions in care.
- Provide support to individuals while they are in the hospital, detoxification programs, 24-hour levels of care and other levels of care, emergency departments, and out-of-home placements as well as self-help groups and 12-step programs.
- Provide assistance with solving problems directly related to recovery, including finding sober housing, making friends, finding new uses of spare time, and improving one’s job skills.
- Provide health and wellness coaching to Engaged Enrollees and assist them identifying and utilizing health and wellness supports in the community.
- Learn all BHCP policies, procedures, protocols and plans and deliver support to Enrollees in compliance with them.
- Develop knowledge about all focus populations.
- Learn evidence based practices identified by the BHCP and deliver services in compliance with them.
- Assist with identifying and engaging Consumer Advisory Board members and support them in their participation.
- Demonstrate a proactive commitment to maintaining effective communication with staff, Enrollees, Care Team members and other collaterals, and other internal and external stakeholders and customers.
- Complete required trainings and other professional development activities
- Strictly adhere to HIPAA and confidentiality policies at all time, including when responding to inquiries for Enrollee information
- Actively participate in team meetings and supervision to ensure effective communication.
- Complete all required documentation in a timely manner in accordance with department, agency and contractual guidelines and requirements.
- Advocate for individual’s needs within the program as well as with external agencies.
- Strictly follow all agency Performance Standards.
Education / Experience
- High School Diploma or GED required, BA/BS preferred; and training and certification appropriate to the role; recovery coach or certified peer specialist or family partner training is preferred. If candidate does not have relevant training/certification at the time of hire, training will be arranged by the BH CP and will be required within 6 months of hire.
- Must have lived experience with mental health, substance use conditions, or family supporting a family member with behavioral health challenges; and be in recovery, if applicable. Prefer current or former recipient of behavioral health services.
Benefits
- Extremely competitive reimbursement rates
- Flexible schedules and innovative payment models based on your needs
- Significant salary differential for BILINGUAL Masters Level Clinicians
- Reimbursement for clinical licensure or re-licensure
- Supervision for licensure and in-house training for CEUs
- Employee referral bonuses
- Leads the state in worker safety
- Health and wellness benefits
- A strong reputation in the field with a friendly, collaborative, transparent leadership philosophy and work culture
Family Continuity is an equal opportunity employer and actively seeks candidates from diverse backgrounds including women, communities of color, the LGBT community and people with disabilities. Family Continuity considers lived experience (personal or familial) with the mental health system a valuable asset.
Job Type: Part-time
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