NORTH SUFFOLK COMMUNITY SERVICES INC·Chelsea, Massachusetts
The Recovery Coach provides peer-assisted support and coaching to individuals recovering from substance use and addiction. Responsibilities include implementing wellness plans, co-facilitating support groups, and assisting clients with community integration and daily living skills.
North Suffolk is looking for a Recovery Coach to join our It Takes a Village team! The Recovery Coach is a person who is grounded in peer-assisted recovery. Because of their life experience with substance use and/ or other addictions, The Recovery Coach provides expertise that clinical training cannot replicate. They promote a culture in which recoverees' points of view and preferences are recognized, understood, respected and integrated into support, treatment, rehabilitation, and community-based recover-oriented systems of care.
This is a full-time position; 36 hours per week.
Supervise and/or coach recoverees, based on their needs, in recovery-oriented skills, activities of daily living, socialization, and community integration.
Implement, teach, assist and/or coach persons served with their individual action plan or recoverees who have developed their own wellness plan to review their goals and objectives on a consistent basis.
Interface with all collateral contacts working with the persons served or recoverees coached. (I.e. Probation Officers, individual therapists, and self-help sponsors).
When appropriate, assist persons served in identifying and accessing sponsorship
Develop and enhance peer driven educational services.
Participate in upkeep and maintenance of program.
Work a flexible schedule to meet the needs of persons served and program.
Document client progress to maintain a permanent record of client activity according to established methods and procedures.
Participate in the provision of services to persons served by co-facilitating groups (in conjunction with professional staff) to provide support for increased stability in their lives through recovery and a better understanding of their symptoms of relapse as well as symptoms of mental illness.
Provide ongoing assessment, problem solving, side-by-side services, skill training, supervision (e.g. prompts, assignments, monitoring, encouragement), and environmental adaptations to assist persons served with activities of daily living (i.e. identifying and attending self-help meetings, support with sponsorship). Provide recovery coaching when recoverees have indicated that preference and responded well to that approach.
Education: Bachelor's degree in a field other than behavioral health sciences or have a high school degree/GED required. Must have work experience with adults diagnosed with substance use and/or dependency.
Experience: Knowledge and experience of the addiction treatment service system, recovery coaching and other related human services
Skills: Certified Addictions Recovery Coach (CARC) certification preferred. Bilingual Spanish is strongly preferred, please list language skills on the application!!
Candidates must have a high school diploma or bachelor's degree and professional experience working with adults diagnosed with substance use disorders. A Certified Addictions Recovery Coach (CARC) certification and bilingual Spanish skills are strongly preferred.
Market context
In Massachusetts, behavioral health employers often look for licensed or license-eligible clinicians with experience supporting at-risk youth and families, so demand tends to stay steady for candidates who can work across settings and age groups. These roles can be competitive because employers usually want a master’s degree, a clear licensure path, and practical experience; review the summarized requirements and benefits here, which are AI-summarized from the original job description to save research time, then confirm your licensure status and tailor your application to youth and family work.
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