Certified Recovery Specialist - Certification Required

Travel required 3-5 days per week throughout Crawford County based on client service needs. In office work required for 2-3 days per week at the Meadville office.

Certification as a Certified Recovery Specialist is required.

Rooted in our Christian faith, Bethany Christian Services works to ensure children are safe, loved, and connected through family. Across 29 states, we strengthen families, support foster care and adoption, and walk alongside refugees with compassion. Here, living out your faith means using your gifts to bring hope and make a lasting impact.

Since 2019, ReNew has provided expectant mothers with effective, evidence-based support that addresses past trauma and other root causes of substance use. As a Certified Recovery Specialist, you’ll protect children and help women shatter cycles of addiction.

• How Your Role Makes a Difference
• Maintain accurate project logs, reports, and records in the appropriate files and databases, while seamlessly collaborating with the Woman's Advocacy Case Manager;
• Provide recovery education to service recipients through the full cycle of recovery from pre- recovery engagement to sustained recovery maintenance;
• Serve as a role model who illustrates the possibility of recovery to staff and clients;
• Assist clients with identifying their personal interests, goals, strengths, and weaknesses with a focus on recovery in four major dimensions to include health, home, purpose, and community;
• Assist and coach clients with developing a recovery advancement plan with the goal of reaching the life they want;
• Effectively facilitate the transition between a professionally assisted recovery initiation to personally directed, community supported recovery maintenance;
• Promote self-advocacy for clients to include the client's needs, goals, and objectives are focused on during rehabilitation and clinical services;
• Identify and provide the appropriate professional and community referrals that support the client's goals and interest, as needed;
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with community groups and agencies;
• Identify internal and external barriers to full participation in community resources and develop a plan to overcome those barriers;
• Effectively maintain contact by phone and/or email to recovering clients after program completion, as needed to support long-term engagement, support, and encouragement;