Recovery Care Coordinator
Listed on 2026-10-22
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Healthcare
Community Health, Substance Abuse Counselor, Mental Health, Patient/Health Advocate
- Base Pay $45,344.00 / Year
- Employee Type Full Time - Non-Exempt
Position Summary
The Recovery Care Coordinator provides person-centered case management, outreach, resource navigation, and
recovery support for patients with substance use disorders (SUD), with an emphasis on patients receiving
medication-assisted recovery (MAR) services
Working alongside recovery staff, medical providers, behavioral health professionals, and community partners, the
Coordinator strengthens engagement, helps patients navigate transitions and barriers to care, and promotes
retention in treatment using Motivational Interviewing, stages-of-change, harm reduction, and peer-support
principles.
The Recovery Care Coordinator also supports the ongoing development and daily operations of the Recovery
Community, including behavioral health groups, recreational activities, outreach and engagement, resource
coordination, and other recovery-focused services. Lived experience of long-term recovery is strongly preferred; the
Coordinator uses appropriate self-disclosure, hope, empathy, and role modeling while maintaining professional
boundaries and honoring patient choice.
- 1. Provide case management for patients transitioning to or from higher levels of care, including medical
stabilization, residential treatment, and recovery homes. - 2. Coordinate referrals, facilitate timely transitions, and
follow up with patients to confirm successful connection to services. - 3. Monitor MAR patient engagement and outcomes using applicable dashboards and tracking systems.
- 4. Conduct proactive outreach to patients who miss follow-up appointments, and support re-engagement and
rescheduling. - 5. Respond to internal and external referrals for substance use treatment and MAR services, and maintain
timely communication with patients, interdisciplinary team members, and referring community partners. - 6. Support the ongoing development and daily operations of the Recovery Community, including behavioral
health groups and recreational activities. - 7.Assist with facilitation, patient engagement, preparation of
- 8. Identify and help resolve barriers to accessing MAR medications, including pharmacy, insurance, and care
coordination barriers. Support access to long
team. - 9. Provide accessible, drop-in resource support to patients in the Recovery Community and SUD clinics,
including assistance with benefits, housing, employment, referrals, appointments, and care coordination. - 10. Use peer-support skills, brief interventions, Motivational Interviewing, and stages-of-change approaches to
engage patients in treatment, build rapport, strengthen motivation for change, support individualized
recovery goals, and promote retention in care. - 11. Coordinate medical, psychiatric, behavioral health, specialty, and other appointments for patients
participating in recovery services. - 12. Facilitate warm handoffs and encourage connection to Recovery
Community services when appropriate. - 13. Build and sustain collaborative relationships with community partners.
- 14. Support assertive outreach and
linkage to LCHC recovery services, serve as a responsive point of contact for designated partnerships, and
cultivate new referral relationships through resource fairs and other community events. - 15. Maintain timely, accurate, and clinically appropriate documentation of patient encounters in the electronic
health record (EHR), including individual encounters, behavioral health groups, recreational activities,
outreach, and care coordination. - 16. Provide overdose prevention and harm reduction education and resources.
- 17. Be comfortable administering
naloxone, support patient access to naloxone, and manage the supply and distribution of drug-testing kits. - 18. Maintain professional competence through ongoing learning related to substance use disorders, peer
recovery support, harm reduction, and recovery-oriented care.
Participate in care team meetings, debriefings, rounding, and supervision as required by organizational
policy.
Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of SUD treatment and recovery-oriented care, including medication-assisted recovery,
Motivational Interviewing, stages of change, harm reduction, and peer-support principles. - Ability to build trusting, respectful relationships and provide culturally responsive, trauma-informed,
nonjudgmental support to people at all points in recovery. - Ability to use lived experience and appropriate self-disclosure in a purposeful manner while maintaining
professional boundaries…
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