Recovery Specialist (Specialty Courts) - Full-time

Overview: p style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Share your recovery journey and use your familiarity with self-help and local recovery groups in your role as a Recovery /spanspan style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Specialist/spanspan style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" at Chestnut. Experience the satisfaction of helping to facilitate self-directed recovery. Position is full-time and will travel throughout Madison and St. Clair Counties. Chestnut offers a new salary structure and robust benefits!/span/p Responsibilities: p style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Engage clients in services prior to their treatment. Help individuals to identify personal strengths and barriers to achieving treatment and recovery goals and to develop natural supports and sobriety-based activities to support long-term recovery. Consult and encourage clients on concerns and achievements presented during the recovery process. Link clients to recovery communities and ancillary services. Coordinate services with treatment team and other supports./span/pp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"Promote the recovery model of treatment including trauma-informed care, hope, respect, empowerment, health/wellness, and spirituality/connectedness./span/p Qualifications: p style="margin: 0in;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"Must have a high school diploma or equivalent, and five years of demonstrated recovery experience and/or engaged in a recovery network, Crisis Intervention Training (CIT), policing, mental health, substance use or other social service experience; or a bachelor’s degree; or a total of five years’ experience and college combined; or a Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) for Missouri Services, Certified Recovery Support Specialist (CRSS) or Certified Peer Recovery Specialist (CPRS) for Illinois Services, or a Certified Alcohol Drug Counselor (CADC) in good standing with the applicable state.  Must have a valid driver’s license, private automobile insurance and be insurable.  Requires basic computer skills and experience to include MS Word, MS Excel, Outlook and an electronic medical record (EMR)./span/pp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"emAre you intrigued by this job but don’t meet every single requirement?/em Research shows that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs when that’s the case. Chestnut is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about any of our posted positions but your experience doesn’t line up perfectly, emplease apply anyway/em! You might be just the right candidate for another role. We’d love to explore the possibilities with you!/span/pp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"EOE – Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled. Chestnut welcomes applications from qualified individuals with recovery experience./span/pp style="margin: 0px;" /pp style="margin: 0px;"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;"The anticipated starting pay for new hires for this position is between $19.00 - $20.00 per hour. There are several factors taken into consideration in determining base pay, including but not limited to: job-related qualifications, skills, education, experience, local market conditions, and internal equity. a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchestnut.org%2Fcareers%2Fbenefits%2Femployee-benefitsdata=05%7C02%7Craforsythe%40chestnut.org%7C6703a2c4ec3f4f3d1fd808dd7c3bfb92%7C770fe6baf3954700948fcaa6fe33eb8b%7C0%7C0%7C638803319281132650%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7Csdata=GLC0IE%2FRpEXaV9jGP61dSQ%2F2uyPOjVUAXfKS%2FYf3XYY%3Dreserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener"strongspan style="font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: blue;"Check out additional benefits here!/span/strong/a/span/p