Job Description: Recovery Coach

 Time commitment: Part-time 24-32 hours per week, potential for full-time 

Reports to: Anthem House Director

Status: Full-Time; At-Will Employee

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Take students to weekly recovery groups in the community
• Create individualized treatment plans for boys in recovery
• Coach students and hold them accountable on actualizing plans
• Assist in staffing shifts, helping things go right each weeknight
• Use the Pyramid of Influence in helping students recover
• Gives oversight to drug tests
• Proactively teach students principles of recovery
• Work with the students on their dailies
• Report in treatment team weekly
• Respond to parent questions as needed
• Plan and execute weekly fun and recovery activities
• Enforcing student rules
• Monitoring and carrying out consequences under the direction of the shift supervisor
• Charting in each student's medical record on the HQ database
• Communicating and reporting to shift supervisor
• Supporting and assisting other Telos departments in their job descriptions (i.e.: nursing appointments, education testing, grading, tutoring, general cleaning and maintenance, answering telephones, shopping, transporting) as allowed by staffing ratios
• Participating on assigned committees or special assignments
• Assisting with runaway retrieval
• Participating in therapeutic holds and restraints
• Attending and maintaining current certifications such as CPR and first aid

Qualifications:

• Substance Use Disorder Counselor Certificate (preferred but not required)
• Experience working with adolescent boys with emotional disorders
• Experience working with SU disorders
• Experience with mindfulness skills
• Experience with the 12-step model of recovery and other researched based models of recovery
• Inspiring interpersonal skills
• Organized
• Excellent verbal skills
• Excellent written skills
• Exceptional relationship skills
• Timely
• Dependable and reliable
• Ability to hold appropriate boundaries
• Ability to receive and carry out instruction
• Genuine care and concern for others