Recovery Specialist

at  RWJBarnabas Health

Req #: 0000169481
Category: Behavioral and Mental Health
Status: Full-Time
Shift: Night
Facility: Central Jersey Behavioral Health
Department: Grant-Opioid Overdose Ocean

• Engage client/patient to provide non-clinical assistance and recovery support by creating connections and trust through the sharing of real-life experience(s) with the client/patient throughout their intervention.
• Conduct client/patient screening to collect all required information pertaining to client/patient history in all aspects of life. Input screening information into the electronic health record system in accordance with IFPR documentation guidelines.
• Ensures accurate and timely documentation, complete required patient follow up and provide necessary reporting data to ensure grant compliance.
• Create individualized recovery support plans based on patient needs discovered through the screening process and social determinants of health (SDOH) circumstances in accordance to grant requirements. Connect client/patient with non-clinical SDOH related services and resources.
• Establish and maintain a supportive relationship with client/patient and their families by being a positive role model and sharing experiential knowledge, hope, and skills.
• Educate individuals on how to appropriately navigate treatment, social service(s) and recovery support systems by maintaining relationships with an IFPR Patient Navigator and/or hospital staff to ensure the navigation to treatment is successful.
• Empower individuals to make self-determined and self-directed choices about their recovery pathway to maintain recovery.
• Implement and facilitate recovery support meetings and groups that are designed to engage, motivate and empower the audience.
• Perform other duties as assigne