Job Description

Description:

The Opportunity: Recovery Coach, Behavioral Health Services

Who We Are || VOAMASS gives members of the community who need help the most the services, support, and self-esteem they need to create a fresh start. At VOAMASS, our dedicated teams are committed to serving the whole person.

What We Do || Through our powerful integrated behavioral health care model, we bring together vast resources from a diverse team of caring staff to help each client meet their personal goals. The care we provide paves the way for greater opportunity and second chances by focusing on the critical pillars towards a healthy life: behavioral health, financial stability, and safe housing.

As a Recovery Coach, you\'ll have a dynamic and critical providing peer-to-peer services in the community and at our extended care facilities. The Recovery Coach will also find and participate in the development of community resources; provide coaching and support recoverees in directing their own recovery, staff training, and liaison with the management of assigned sites as needed.

This role is about making a difference in the lives of the people we serve. You\'ll bring the following qualifications:

• A High School Diploma, or equivalent
• Lived experience with 2 years minimum in recovery
• Completion of the CCAR training with the intention of completing courses necessary for licensure
• Experience in the human services field and residential settings, providing strengths-based coaching and recovery orientated relationship building
• Excellent written and communication skills and experience with technology

Key Responsibilities: * Delivers coaching services at assigned sites ensuring that services follow professional standards including all written documentation and maintenance of client records as required by third-party payors and VOA.

• Provides coaching, advocating, and liaising to extended care facilities in order to maintain and expand these programs whenever possible.
• Recovery Coaches who achieve full-time status are required to maintain an active billable caseload of thirty (30) hours per week on average (calculated quarterly minimum). Five minimum contacts per month with each assigned client.
• Participates in planning and developing of Recovery Wellness Plan.
• Maintains records according to VOA Policies and Procedures, completing all documentation and billing in a timely manner.
• Coordinates with external referrals sources in order to build and maintain target caseload.
• Provides other services as may be requested.

Since 1934, VOAMASS has provided critical services to the residents of the Commonwealth. From pioneering early residential treatment programs in the 1960\'s to leading today in the field of mental health prison diversion programming, VOAMASS can be counted on to tackle our greatest challenges

VOAMASS is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

For full-time employees, our comprehensive and generous benefits package includes:

• Competitive Health, Vision and Dental insurance
• Flexible Spending and Health Reimbursement Account
• Employer paid Life and Long-Term Disability
• 403(b) matching retirement plans
• Tuition Remission Programs
• Loan Forgiveness (PSLF Program)
• Fitness/Wellness reimbursement
• Employee Discount Program
• Pet Insurance
• Blue Care Line (24/7 Nurse hotline)
• Generous Vacation, Sick, and Personal Time Benefits
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Employee Referral Bonus with no annual cap

Requirements:

Vaccination Policy:

In accordance with VOAMASS\' duty to provide and maintain a safe workplace, we have adopted a mandatory vaccination policy to safeguard the health of our employees and their families, our clients, partners, visitors, and the community at large from COVID-19. This policy complies with all applicable laws and is based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

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