Casual Recovery Support Specialist
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Sojourner House
Pittsburgh, PA, US
Summary
The Recovery Support Specialist provides supportive services to women and their children, including monitoring residents to ensure safety and recovery progress. Responsibilities also include transporting clients, assisting with childcare, and modeling healthy coping skills.
Job Description
Overview
Sojourner House, located in Pittsburgh for more than 30 years, offers compassionate, faith-based recovery services to women and their children. We're looking for two Full-Time Recovery Support Specialist to join our team. If you have care and compassion, balanced with support and structure, you could be a great fit! Together, we can help women to successfully achieve their recovery goals.
The Recovery Specialist provides women and their children with supportive services. You'll get the chance to make a difference through teaching, guiding and monitoring residents to ensure their safety and best opportunity for recovery.
We are looking for one person for each shift: 2:30 PM-10:30 PM and 6:30 AM-2:30 PM
What you'll do:
- Engage, interact and support women in our recovery program, while maintaining a positive, professional, and client-focused manner with a diverse population.
- Model and support clients and staff in health and wellness activities and with using healthy coping skills.
- Transport women in recovery to and from appointments, as needed.
- Help with childcare and support women with basic household management skills.
- Must be able to discretely handle confidential information and prioritize and balance daily tasks.
- Must be able to maintain a positive, solution-focused demeanor when responding to conflicts or problems.
- Support organization’s mission with a sensitivity of cultural diversity and workplace harmony.
- Provide gender-responsive, trauma-informed and recovery oriented systems of care.
Education/Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent required with at least two years of applicable paid experience required.
- Certified Addiction Counselor and or Certified Recovery Specialist preferred.
- Must possess computer skills and administrative duties including the ability to learn and record all relevant software programs for the position (ex. Microsoft, Word, Outlook email).
- To work with children, you'll need to obtain Act 33 and 34 clearances, FBI clearance.
- Valid PA driver’s license.
Sojourner House is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
Sojourner House provides compassionate, faith-based, in-patient residential recovery services to mothers and children in the Pittsburgh area. We help addicted mothers learn to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty and chemical abuse while rebuilding damaged relationships with their children. Sojourner House believes women can shatter the chains of addiction and hopelessness when surrounded by what means most to them: their children.
Sojourner House, Inc. named after the great African American preacher, Sojourner Truth, was founded in 1991 by a group of women from Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church. Twenty-six representatives from Pittsburgh’s social service agencies gathered to identify potential solutions to problems that affect women’s lives. During this gathering, it was discovered that many women do not seek help for their addictions for fear they will lose their children and that there were far fewer rehabilitation programs for women than men. The consensus was that drug and alcohol addicted mothers with their children were the group in greatest need and should be the prime target for urgent and significant aid.
Between 1991 and 1994, Sojourner House operated under the umbrella of the East End Cooperative Ministry. In 1994, Sojourner House successfully applied for its own nonprofit status and became licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health as a “women with children” residential rehabilitation facility. Its goal is to help families to successfully continue their recovery journey, focusing on strengthening family relationships, promoting self-sufficiency, long term sobriety, and mental health stability. With this in mind, Sojourner House MOMS (Mentoring, Opportunity, Motivation, Spirituality) was created in 2004 to provide permanent, supportive recovery housing to homeless, dual-diagnosed single parents and their children.
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Founded
1991
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Individual and Family Services
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Pittsburgh, PA
Sojourner House provides compassionate, faith-based, in-patient residential recovery services to mothers and children in the Pittsburgh area. We help addicted mothers learn to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty and chemical abuse while rebuilding damaged relationships with their children. Sojourner House believes women can shatter the chains of addiction and hopelessness when surrounded by what means most to them: their children.
Sojourner House, Inc. named after the great African American preacher, Sojourner Truth, was founded in 1991 by a group of women from Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church. Twenty-six representatives from Pittsburgh’s social service agencies gathered to identify potential solutions to problems that affect women’s lives. During this gathering, it was discovered that many women do not seek help for their addictions for fear they will lose their children and that there were far fewer rehabilitation programs for women than men. The consensus was that drug and alcohol addicted mothers with their children were the group in greatest need and should be the prime target for urgent and significant aid.
Between 1991 and 1994, Sojourner House operated under the umbrella of the East End Cooperative Ministry. In 1994, Sojourner House successfully applied for its own nonprofit status and became licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health as a “women with children” residential rehabilitation facility. Its goal is to help families to successfully continue their recovery journey, focusing on strengthening family relationships, promoting self-sufficiency, long term sobriety, and mental health stability. With this in mind, Sojourner House MOMS (Mentoring, Opportunity, Motivation, Spirituality) was created in 2004 to provide permanent, supportive recovery housing to homeless, dual-diagnosed single parents and their children.
Follow us, work with us, volunteer, donate, get help ... Please visit our website to learn more ...
Founded
1991
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Individual and Family Services
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Pittsburgh, PA