Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Position Summary: Under general supervision, the Recovery Support Services (RSS) Recovery Coach is responsible to the RSS Director. The RSS Recovery Coach must provide tracking data for sustainability of quality case management services.

The RSS Recovery Coach / Recovery Support Peer Specialist is responsible for ensuring services to help participants address economic, childcare, employment, education, health, housing, transportation, life skills, parenting, recovery, federal, state, and local assistance, vocational assistance, GED referrals and family needs, No smoking workplace. Pay dependent on experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Provides mentoring/individualized transition and recovery support assistance.
• Conducts face-to-face contact to discuss recovery wellness planning.
• Guides participant to outreach services and community integration.
• Facilitates recovery support groups.
• Collaborates with recovery support groups, aftercare providers, churches, corporations, alumni, and volunteer organizations.
• Provides data collection and reporting through enrollments, census, participant surveys, and recovery wellness groups.
• Participates in planning/development with peer and collaborating with treatment team to coordinate a continuum of support.

Education/Experience:

A high school diploma or General Equivalent Diploma (GED) required. Full RSPS certification or RSPS-I active status or equivalent combination of education and experience in the field. Previous experience in recovery-oriented systems of care and crisis intervention required. Knowledge of substance use, recovery principles/values and peer ethical standards required.

Certificates and Licenses:

Recovery Coach Certification required from Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) and Texas Certification Board of Addiction Professionals (TCBAP).

NOTE: Recovery Support Peer Specialists -- must have certification with Texas Certification Board of Addiction Professionals (TCBAP)

Santa Maria Hostel provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Company Description

Mission Driven

The mission of Santa Maria Hostel is to empower women and their families to lead healthy, successful, productive and self-fulfilling lives.

Building on our History

Santa Maria has been serving the women and children of Houston and surrounding areas since the mid 1950s. By offering vital services and life changing support, the organization offers a pathway to success through recovery. Santa Maria will continue to evolve to meet the needs of those we serve by expanding and refining our continuum of care, delivering services with the highest level of professionalism and compassion. Moving forward, Santa Maria will continue to expand services for the entire family unit, ensuring each family member and the family as a whole is supported and empowered with a strong foundation for success.

The Women and Children we Serve:

Santa Maria provides critical and life changing services for low-income, indigent women age 18 and above and their children from Harris and the surrounding 12 counties.

Our women face many challenges to their recovery, including histories or trauma, criminal justice and Children’s Protective Services involvement, and homelessness or housing instability. Many also have co-occurring mental and physical health issues. Their children and families struggle with these issues as well, and so together we support the entire family on their recovery journey.

Company Description

Mission Driven\r\n\r\nThe mission of Santa Maria Hostel is to empower women and their families to lead healthy, successful, productive and self-fulfilling lives.\r\n\r\nBuilding on our History\r\n\r\nSanta Maria has been serving the women and children of Houston and surrounding areas since the mid 1950s. By offering vital services and life changing support, the organization offers a pathway to success through recovery. Santa Maria will continue to evolve to meet the needs of those we serve by expanding and refining our continuum of care, delivering services with the highest level of professionalism and compassion. Moving forward, Santa Maria will continue to expand services for the entire family unit, ensuring each family member and the family as a whole is supported and empowered with a strong foundation for success.\r\n\r\nThe Women and Children we Serve:\r\n\r\nSanta Maria provides critical and life changing services for low-income, indigent women age 18 and above and their children from Harris and the surrounding 12 counties.\r\n\r\nOur women face many challenges to their recovery, including histories or trauma, criminal justice and Children’s Protective Services involvement, and homelessness or housing instability. Many also have co-occurring mental and physical health issues. Their children and families struggle with these issues as well, and so together we support the entire family on their recovery journey.

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