| Location | Anderson, IN |
To perform this position successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed in this document are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Duties:
Maintain logs, reports, and records in appropriate files
Provide social support service to individuals at all stages on the continuum of change that constitutes the recovery process
Actively identify and support linkages to community resources (communities of recovery; educational, vocational, social, cultural, and spiritual resources; mutual self-help groups; professional services; housing; primary and behavioral health care; substance use disorder treatment; advocacy) that align with the recovering person's goals and interests. This will involve a collaborative effort including the recovering person, agency staff, and other relevant stakeholders. Connect and refer to community resources that support health and wellness, recovery community, and activities.
Support connections to community-based, mutual self-help groups. Link individuals to appropriate professional resources when needed. Provide vision-driven hope and encouragement for opportunities at varying levels of involvement in community-based activities.
Develop and maintain relationships with community groups, coalitions, and agencies in partnership with MCHD.
Visit community resources with recovering people to help them become familiar with potential opportunities.
Identify barriers (internal and external) to full participation in community resources and develop strategies to overcome those barriers.
Maintain contact by phone and/or e-mail with the recovering person to ensure their ongoing success and to provide re-engagement support, in partnership with others in the agency, if needed. Long-term engagement, support, and encouragement
Develop and maintain relationships with county justice and correction systems.
Develop, implement, and promote ongoing community training opportunities and outreach events.
Work with staff and other community professionals to implement and promote recovery-oriented training programs and opportunities.
Monitor key indicators regarding overdose and overdose deaths
Other duties as directed by the Administrator
Job Requirements
Knowledge of the Recovery process and the ability to facilitate recovery using established standardized mental health processes
Knowledge and skill to teach and engage in basic problem-solving strategies to support individual clients in self-directed recovery
Knowledge of the signs and symptoms of mental illness (i.e., auditory and visual hallucinations, aggressive talk and behavior, thoughts of self-harm or harm towards others, isolation) and the ability to assist the client to address symptoms using strategies such as positive self-talk
Must have a working knowledge of the drug and alcohol treatment system and a demonstrated commitment to the recovery community
Having personal experience relevant to services provided and maintaining a healthy recovery
Able to obtain Peer Recovery Coach certification
A valid driver's license is required as driving will be required and reliable transportation
Difficulty of Work
Incumbent performs duties which are relatively broad in scope, dealing with a wide variety of situations and individuals. Work is accomplished according to generally accepted, though not always clearly applicable, guidelines calling for judgment in determining which guidelines are most pertinent to problems and situations.
Personal Work Relationships
Incumbent maintains work relationships with department staff, administrators, governmental representatives, non-profit organizations, coalitions, committees, public facility owners and operators, and other members of the public.