Peer Employment Coach

TITLE: Peer Employment Coach

REPORTS TO: Work & Out Grant, Vocational Manager

FLSA CODE: Non-Exempt

PROGRAM: Kate Rothko Center for Recovery – 15 Hell Gate Circ. Ward's Island, NY 10035

Our Mission:

Since 1967, Odyssey House has gone beyond helping individuals beat drugs and alcohol. We help rebuild lives. There’s more to recovery than just getting clean. We help individuals get healthy again, too, with medical and dental care, fitness programs, support for your mental health and more. Individuals can stay with their children while in treatment, while learning new life skills, so they can stay together and repair other broken relationships in their lives. We provide educational and work skill trainings, outpatient services and available housing assistance, so individuals can step back into real life with a real future.

If that sounds different than other treatment programs, you’re right. Because Odyssey is where recovery gets real.

In addition to competitive salaries, Odyssey House offers:

• A 35-hour work week (as opposed to a 40-hour work week)
• Vacation Plan and Holiday Schedule
• Life Insurance
• Medical Insurance (Two Plans)
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Additional Insurance Coverages (hospitalization, accidental, critical illness coverage)
• Long-Term & Short-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Account/Health Reimbursement Account
• 403(b) Plan
• Corporate Counseling Associates (CCA) EAP benefit
• Ability Assist Counseling Services (through The Hartford)
• Commuter Benefits
• Educational Assistance Programs
• Special shopping discounts through ADP Marketplace and PlumBenefits
• RUFit?! Fitness Program
• Pet Insurance
• Legal Assistance
• Optum Financial Service through ConnectYourCare
• Benefit Advocacy Center through Gallagher

Description of Duties and Responsibilities:

The Peer Employment Coach provides recovery-oriented guidance, mentorship, advocacy, and support services with a focus on engagement in an internship and employment retention.

• Provides recovery coaching and mentorship.

• Facilitates wellness and recovery planning.

• Link participants to community resources.

• Conducts outreach and delivers educational presentations to employers and program participants.

• Conducts eligibility screening with potential program participants.

• Assists program participants with planning for internship and employment participation such as transportation, scheduling and budgeting.

• Facilitates and supports engagement in evidence-based Therapeutic Community

• Facilitates warm hand-offs with internship placement sites.

• Facilitates warm hand-offs with network service providers.

• Facilitates large-group seminars regarding Work & Out grant.

• Acts as advocate on behalf of program participants with professional staff, employers and network service providers.

• Assists program participants with planning drug-free leisure time activities.

• Participate in team meetings and clinical case conference.

• Documents delivery of services in clinical record.

• Maintains accessibility to adolescents and transition age youth through text messaging or recovery support app.

• Participates in in-service training according to program requirements.

• Additional responsibilities as needed.

Qualifications for Position:

• CRPA certificate or CRPA-Provisional Certificate required.

• At least one year’s experience working in a similar role in a behavioral health setting required.

• High school diploma or high school equivalency diploma required.

• Has at least 12 months continuous experience in a competitive employment role prior to date of hire

preferred.

Skills and Knowledge Required:

• Microsoft Office proficiency

• Ability to work with individuals in early recovery

• Knowledge of behavioral health and recovery-oriented systems of care.

• Ability to document care in electronic health record.

TRAVEL & SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Some local travel is required.

• Occasional out-of-state travel may be required.

Odyssey House is an equal opportunity employer maintaining a non-discriminatory policy on hiring of its personnel. Odyssey House, and its operational divisions, will not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or citizen status in all employment decisions including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, training, rate of pay or other forms of compensation, layoff, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.