Wellness Advocate

• Communicates with hospital team to receive referrals regarding patients involved with substance use.
• Completes a confidential face-to-face Brief Negotiated Intervention (BNI) with patients to screen for substance use issues and provide appropriate resources as applicable.
• Discusses the process of change, uncovers barriers to care, and develops a plan of change with the patient.
• Provides education on available resources which address the patient’s identified needs.
• Demonstrates a knowledge of community resources and advocates for/assists the patient to connect with outside agencies. This includes a base knowledge of how funding surrounding the resources works as well.
• Models healthy recovery and demonstrates healthy coping skills with both patients and hospital staff.
• Completes post-discharge follow-up calls with patients to provide encouragement, re-engagement, and any additional resources that the patient identifies 7, 30, and 60 days following initial interaction.
• Accurately and timely tracks all encounters in multiple databases for agency, hospital, and funding sources.
• Builds and maintains respectful and professional relationships with hospital staff and peers.
• Attends team, agency, and hospital meetings and trainings as required.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Be actively engaged in a recovery process or program and able to clearly articulate the practices, supports, and accountability structures the personally use to sustain their recovery,
• Maintain personal conduct consistent with recovery-oriented peer practice,
• Maintain sustained abstinence from alcohol, marijuana, and other drug use including misuse of prescribed or unprescribed medication, and
• Demonstrate a minimum of three (3) consecutive years of continuous recovery.
• Strong working knowledge of recovery principles.
• Project ASSERT training completed within the first 2 months of employment
• CCAR completion or CPRC certification within the first 6 months of employment
• Moderate computer skills. Demonstrate a working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications and virtual meeting platforms.

Benefits:

• Paid Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• 403(b) Retirement Plan with Employer Contribution