Recovery Coach - Services Over Sentences

North Suffolk is looking for a Recovery Coaches to join our Services over Sentences team! The Recovery Coach is a person who is grounded in peer-assisted recovery and because of their experience with substance use and/ or other addictions, the Recovery Coach provides expertise that clinical training cannot replicate. They are fully integrated team members who provide psycho-educational groups and recovery coaching for Suffolk County District Attorney’s Services over Sentences (SOS) initiative. They also provide essential expertise and consultation to the District Attorney’s office and trial court staff to promote a culture in which recoverees’ points of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected and integrated into support, treatment, rehabilitation, and community-based recovery-oriented systems of care.
This position is 36 hours per week with some nights required. What you’ll do:

• Supervise and/or coach recoverees, based on their needs in recovery-oriented skills, activities of daily living, socialization, and community integration.
• Assist the Suffolk County DA’s Office with interventions to engage high risk high need individuals presenting in court with substance use disorder.
• Support the treatment team to develop an individual action plan or support the recoveree in developing a wellness plan.
• Implement, teach, assist and/ or coach persons served with their individual action plan or recoverees who have developed their own wellness plan to review their goals and objectives on a consistent basis.
• Interface with all collateral contacts working with the persons served or recoverees coached. (I.e. Probation Officers, individual therapists, and treatment providers).
• When appropriate, assist persons served in identifying and accessing resources in the community and assist with removing barriers.
• Develop and enhance peer driven educational services and participate in upkeep and maintenance of program.
• Attend daily staff organizational meetings and treatment planning or wellness planning review meetings, including all required trainings within prescribed timelines.
• When appropriate document progress to maintain a permanent record of recoveree activity according to established methods and procedures.
• Participate in the provision of services to persons served by co-facilitating groups to provide support for increased stability.
• Provide ongoing assessment, problem solving, side-by-side services, skill training, supervision, and environmental adaptations to assist persons served with activities of daily living.

What you’ll need:

• Education/experience:
  • May have a bachelor's degree in a field other than behavioral science OR have a high school degree OR GED.
  • Have work experience with adults diagnosed with substance use and/or dependency.
  • Should have experience and knowledge regarding the addiction treatment service system, trial court system, recovery coaching and other human related services.
• Skills:
  • A Certificate from the Recovery Coach Academy required. CARC preferred.

Competitive & Comprehensive Benefits:

• Paid Time Off – Two weeks’ Vacation per year (three weeks after 1 year of service), 12 Sick Days per year, and 11 Paid Holidays per year
• Eligible employer for the PSLF program
• North Suffolk qualifies as an H-1B Cap-Exempt employer (for eligible positions)
• North Suffolk offers visa and permanent resident card support to active employees
• Health & Dental Insurance, with generous employer contribution
• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• 403 (b) Retirement Plan with employer matching
• Voluntary Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Medical & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Access to Credit Union Banking
• Access to State Tuition Remission Program (Worksite Specific)
• Employee Referral Bonus Program
• Discounted Movie Tickets
• Comprehensive Training Program
• Internal Advancement Opportunities