Recovery Coach - Addiction Psychiatry

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Psychiatry - Addiction

Provides peer recovery support services to patients with substance use disorder (SUD) admitted to VUH (Vanderbilt University Hospital) and will assist patients in achieving and sustaining recovery as defined by each individual patient, with some guidance. Facilitates patient access to recovery‑oriented substance use disorder treatment, resources, and community recovery groups. Maintains ongoing patient support regardless of stage of change and will serve as a motivator, ally, role model, sounding board, and advocate for patients with substance use disorders.

• Provide bedside recovery coaching to patients admitted to the hospital for SUD related issues.
• Serve as a liaison between the recovery community, the addiction treatment system, the medical treatment system, and the patient’s community, family, and social context to facilitate connections across systems of care.
• Meet with patients in clinical and community settings to understand their needs and personal goals, support the exploration of potential positive and negative consequences associated with personal goals, and work collaboratively with the patient to remove obstacles that might interfere with goal attainment.
• Educate patients about addiction safe use practices, multiple pathways of recovery, and utilize motivational enhancement techniques.
• Conduct active outreach efforts to encourage attendance and participation in recovery‑oriented, self‑help, and pro‑social groups.
• Work collaboratively with treatment team in support of evidence‑based services to patients.
• Assist with access to treatment for patients, understanding and using systems and procedures to rapidly support identified needs of the patient and assists with data collection for quality assurance and program evaluation.

• Clinical Counseling (Novice):
  Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate clinical counseling in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
• Patient Assessment (Novice):
  Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate patient assessments in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
• Peer Leadership (Novice):
  The ability to show leadership and influence people of equal rank in an effort to accomplish team goals.

Allied health is among the fastest growing occupations in healthcare today. This area can be defined as credentialed professionals who perform supportive, diagnostic, and therapeutic health care services to promote health and prevent disease in a variety of settings.

These areas are crucial to Vanderbilt Health’s reputation for excellence in these areas that has made us a major center for patient referrals from throughout the Mid‑South.

Each year, people throughout Tennessee and the southeast choose Vanderbilt Health for their health care because of our leadership in medical science and our dedication to treating patients with dignity and compassion.

• Organizational Impact:
  Performs tasks that are typically routine that may impact the team’s performance with occasional guidance.
• Problem Solving/ Complexity of work:
  Utilizes some discretion and research to solve routine problems.
• Breadth of Knowledge:
  Applies knowledge of standards, established processes and procedures that apply to your own job.
• Team…