Copy of Recovery Specialist Part-Time Sat & Sun (7am to 3pm)
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Casa Esperanza
Boston, MA, US
Summary
The Recovery Specialist oversees daily program activities, ensures resident safety, and manages front desk operations including phone and visitor monitoring. They are also responsible for crisis intervention, medication administration, and maintaining accurate logs of client activities and property.
Job Description
About the role
Oversees the day-to-day activities at the program and ensures the safety and security of residents at all times. Staffs the front desk, answers the phones, manages the daily client schedule, ensures that all client activities are completed, and manages the safety and security requirements for the house. Responsible for completing regular rounds, facilitating groups, and other administrative duties as assigned. Provides crisis intervention and medication monitoring. Must have computer/data entry skills. Must be English/Spanish bilingual. All shifts (day, evening, overnight, and weekends) are awake shifts.
What you'll do
- Must be familiar with the structure and activities that occur during each shift
- Implements all safety and security requirements for the house, including fire drills, evacuation procedures, and alarm and camera monitoring.
- Reports all safety and security concerns to appropriate authorities and staff.
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- 911 / Best Team Emergency Services
- Program Director
- Senior Clinical Staff on Site
- Responsible for crisis intervention, counseling, and groups as needed
- Must participate in all mandatory safety and security trainings
- Must participate in regularly scheduled Program and All Agency meetings
- Coordinates all scheduled client activities and refers clients to appropriate staff for support.
- Monitors the front door and answers the front desk phone
- Ensures that all windows and doors are secure and alarms are set.
- Ensures that all items that are potentially dangerous are secured in a locked location, i.e. knives, curling irons, irons, razors, etc.
- Monitors all use of client medications, including over-the-counter medications
- Makes client medications available at prescribed intervals
- Observes and records that all medication has been taken in the medication log
- Secures all client personal property in the designated secure location and completes property log
- Conducts walkthroughs every two hours and complete H.M. checklist and logs as required Ensure all clients, visitors and staff sign in and out
Qualifications & Experience:
Knowledge and Skills necessary for the position:
- Strong verbal/written skills
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to work as member of a treatment team
- English/Spanish Bilingual required
- Bicultural preferred
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to communicate with clients, vendors, and external providers in a professional manner
- Ability to handle multiple tasks
- Ability to understand and manage moral/ethical boundaries with clients/staff
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to meet the physical requirements of the position (see attached)
- Ability to meet the training requirements of the position (see attached)
Experience preferred for the position:
- Minimum of two (2) years’ experience as a Recovery Specialist in a residential program
- Experience working at a front desk area preferred
- Minimum of two (2) years in recovery if applicable
Education/Training required:
- High School Diploma or GED
- Knowledge of addiction recovery process, or willingness to acquire within first six months of employment
- Counseling and Substance Abuse training
- CPR Certification
- SERV Safe Certification or ability to obtain upon hire
- Valid Driver’s License
Schedule: Sat & Sun
- 1st Shift - 7am to 3pm
What we offer:
Casa Esperanza Benefits Package:
- Compensation: $18.50-24.50 base rate per hour (per applicable shift differentials)
- Sick Pay
- Employee Ticket at Work (Discounts for Entertainment, travel, movies; etc.)
- Career Advancement Opportunities
- Increased Salary for Credentials
- and more....
Physical & Mental Requirements
While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to walk, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
At Casa Esperanza, Inc., the health and safety of our people is our number one priority. That’s why all offers of employment are contingent on the candidate showing proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (currently one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine or two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine and boosted, when eligible) to pass the pre-employment requirements. Individuals with medical issues or religious beliefs that prevent them from getting the vaccine may request an exemption from the vaccine requirement.
Casa Esperanza, Inc. is a bilingual and bi-cultural human services organization that specializes in serving the Latino community in Massachusetts. Our mission is to empower individuals and families to recover from substance use disorder, trauma, mental illness, and other chronic medical conditions; overcome homelessness; and achieve health and wellness through comprehensive, integrated care.
Our services:
Residential Recovery: Casa Esperanza's Men’s Program serves 29 adult men and Latinas y Niños serves 20 adult women and can also house up to 12 of children age ten or younger so clients in recovery may maintain or regain custody while still in treatment. Residential services usually last six to twelve months and offer evidence-based treatment methodologies as well as assisting clients with setting long-term goals for maintaining their recovery as they transition to independent living.
Structured Outpatient Addictions Program (SOAP): Familias Unidas Outpatient Services is a licensed, CARF-accredited clinic that provides client-centered, integrated services to support the complex, long-term needs of people with co-occurring disorders. Familias is co-located with primary care services and is the only Spanish-language SOAP in Greater Boston.
Supportive Housing: Nueva Vida provides15 single-occupancy units, Dunmore Place & 300 Eustis Street provides eight family units, and Nueva Esperanza provides 14 individual studio units for a total of 37 units of permanent safe, sober housing for individuals and families, with on-site support for maintaining recovery and building independent living skills.
Clinical Stabilization: Conexiones is a structured 24-hour inpatient clinical stabilization program for individuals early in their recovery which includes nursing care, individual and group therapy, psycho-educational groups, case management, health education, and aftercare planning.
Our job openings: https://www.casaesperanza.org/who-we-are/our-team/join-our-team/
Founded
1984
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Mental Health Care
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Roxbury, MA
Casa Esperanza, Inc. is a bilingual and bi-cultural human services organization that specializes in serving the Latino community in Massachusetts. Our mission is to empower individuals and families to recover from substance use disorder, trauma, mental illness, and other chronic medical conditions; overcome homelessness; and achieve health and wellness through comprehensive, integrated care.
Our services:
Residential Recovery: Casa Esperanza's Men’s Program serves 29 adult men and Latinas y Niños serves 20 adult women and can also house up to 12 of children age ten or younger so clients in recovery may maintain or regain custody while still in treatment. Residential services usually last six to twelve months and offer evidence-based treatment methodologies as well as assisting clients with setting long-term goals for maintaining their recovery as they transition to independent living.
Structured Outpatient Addictions Program (SOAP): Familias Unidas Outpatient Services is a licensed, CARF-accredited clinic that provides client-centered, integrated services to support the complex, long-term needs of people with co-occurring disorders. Familias is co-located with primary care services and is the only Spanish-language SOAP in Greater Boston.
Supportive Housing: Nueva Vida provides15 single-occupancy units, Dunmore Place & 300 Eustis Street provides eight family units, and Nueva Esperanza provides 14 individual studio units for a total of 37 units of permanent safe, sober housing for individuals and families, with on-site support for maintaining recovery and building independent living skills.
Clinical Stabilization: Conexiones is a structured 24-hour inpatient clinical stabilization program for individuals early in their recovery which includes nursing care, individual and group therapy, psycho-educational groups, case management, health education, and aftercare planning.
Our job openings: https://www.casaesperanza.org/who-we-are/our-team/join-our-team/
Founded
1984
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Mental Health Care
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Roxbury, MA