Recovery support specialist - room grant

Overview

Provide experience, education and professional services to assist and support individuals in developing and/or maintaining recovery-oriented, wellness-focused lifestyles.

Qualifications

Educational Requirements

Certification & Licensure Requirements

• Must have control over personal use of all mood-altering chemicals and behaviors. -
• If recovering from an addiction, must currently have a minimum of 2 years of uninterrupted recovery. -
  
  

Experience Requirements

• Lived experience in Recovery
  
  

Other Requirements

Required English Skills Advanced reading skills Advanced writing skills Advanced oral skills Communication Skills Ability to respond appropriately to customer/co-worker Interaction with a wide variety of people Maintain confidential information Ability to communicate only the facts to recipients or to decline to reveal information Ability to project a professional, friendly, helpful demeanor Computer Skills Basic computer knowledge: Uses word processing, spreadsheet, e-mail application, and web browser. Comfortable within a Windows OS and learning new applications.

Responsibilities

Ensures Patients receive comprehensive services: Identification of patient into services, assessment, discharge planning, and other aspects of warm handoff.

• Ability to provide advocacy, education, recovery and wellness support.
• Is knowledgeable and capable of working with patients who present in crisis and therapeutic intervention
• Identifying patient need for services and use identified evidence-based approach.
• Is able to engage patients within the living room process.
• Ability to establish a collaborative relationship with the patient, provide practical and personalized support for entering and adhering to discharge planning
• Assist in creation of recovery planning
• Facilitate discharge planning
• Ensuring that patient receives support and motivation to engage in and adhere to ongoing treatment.
• Provides that all patient contact and interaction is based upon inherent dignity, individuality, culture and beliefs of each patient. Patient care is provided in a compassionate, humane, and non-enabling manner.
• Participates in interdisciplinary clinical staffing or ensures pertinent information is provided to team
• Demonstrates Motivational Interviewing skills when working with patients.
  
  

Provide continuum of care/follow up care to patients.

• Be available after discharge to deliver recovery support, as needed.
• Ability to bridge care with insurance correlated community services
• Provide follow up instructions, appointments, and coordination for discharge planning.
• Provide detailed communication to receptive discharge providers to ensure warm handoff in the care coordination process.
• Ability to identify barriers to transportation and assist with getting patient transportation to appointments
• Provide ongoing recovery support service to ensure patient arrives and is engaged by intake staff and ensure that patient remains engaged in treatment overtime - helping the patient navigate stages of change and practical considerations.
• Work with insurance provided transportation programs to ensure transportation
  
  

Provide education/information to patients, families, and other invested parties.

• Is knowledgeable in understanding of addiction, signs of overdose, family dynamic, and administration of naloxone products.
• Ability to educate patient and family in opiate use and administration of naloxone products.
• Ability to provide consultation with patient, family, insurance provider, and treatment providers to confirm recommended course of treatment is covered and/or affordable.
  
  

Assist in facilitation of services, based on quality initiatives and documentation in EMR.

• Ensures accurate documentation
• Collaborates with Care Team to ensure documentation is present to supports warm hand off.
• Documents all Discharge Planning components accurately in EMR
• Assist with documentation in EMR to support quality initiatives
• Assist with audits for medical necessity documents as requested
  
  

About Us

Find it here.

Discover the job, the career, the purpose you were meant for. The supportive and inclusive team where you can thrive. The place where growth meets balance - and opportunities meet flexibility. Find it all at Carle Health.

Based in Urbana, IL, Carle Health is a healthcare system with nearly 16,600 team members in its eight hospitals, physician groups and a variety of healthcare businesses. Carle BroMenn Medical Center, Carle Foundation Hospital, Carle Health Methodist Hospital, Carle Health Proctor Hospital, Carle Health Pekin Hospital, and Carle Hoopeston Regional Health Center hold Magnet® designations, the nation’s highest honor for nursing care. The system includes Methodist College and Carle Illinois College of Medicine, the world’s first engineering-based medical school, and Health Alliance™. We offer opportunities in several communities throughout central Illinois with potential for growth and life-long careers at Carle Health.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. Carle Health participates in E-Verify and may provide the Social Security Administration and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. | For more information: [email protected].

Compensation And Benefits

The compensation range for this position is $15.91per hour - $25.77per hour. This represents a good faith minimum and maximum range for the role at the time of posting by Carle Health. The actual compensation offered a candidate will be dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, qualifications, location, training, licenses, shifts worked and compensation model. Carle Health offers a comprehensive benefits package for team members and providers. To learn more visit careers.carlehealth.org/benefits.