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.

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, writing, and oral skills.
• Communication skills with a wide variety of people.
• Maintain confidential information.
• Communicate only the facts to recipients or decline to reveal information.
• Project a professional, friendly, helpful demeanor.
• Basic computer knowledge: word processing, spreadsheet, e‑mail application, and web browser. Comfortable within a Windows OS and learning new applications.

Ensures patients receive comprehensive services: identification, assessment, discharge planning, and other aspects of warm handoff.

• Provide advocacy, education, recovery, and wellness support.
• Work with patients in crisis and therapeutic intervention.
• Identify patient need for services using evidence-based approaches.
• Engage patients within the living room process.
• Establish collaborative relationships with patients and provide personalized support for discharge planning.
• Assist in creating recovery plans.
• Facilitate discharge planning.
• Encourage ongoing treatment engagement.
• Base all interactions on inherent dignity, individuality, culture, and beliefs of each patient; provide compassionate, humane, and non‑enabling care.
• Participate in interdisciplinary clinical staffing and provide pertinent information to the team.
• Demonstrate motivational interviewing skills.

Provide continuum of care and follow‑up to patients.

• Be available after discharge to deliver recovery support as needed.
• Bridge care with insurance‑correlated community services.
• Provide follow‑up instructions, appointments, and coordination for discharge planning.
• Communicate detailed information to discharge providers for a warm handoff.
• Identify transportation barriers and assist with patient transportation to appointments.
• Ensure ongoing recovery support to keep patients engaged over time.
• Work with insurance transportation programs to ensure patient transportation.

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

• Understand addiction, overdose signs, family dynamics, and naloxone administration.
• Educate patients and families on opioid use and naloxone administration.
• Consult with patients, families, insurance providers, and treatment providers to confirm coverage and affordability of recommended care.

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

• Ensure accurate documentation.
• Collaborate with the care team to support warm handoff documentation.
• Document all discharge planning components accurately in EMR.
• Support quality initiatives through EMR documentation.
• Assist with audits for medical necessity documents as requested.

Discover the job, the career, and the purpose you were meant for. At Carle Health, we foster a workplace where every team member feels valued, respected, and empowered, bringing passion and purpose to positively impact our patients and communities.

Our nearly 17,000 team members support patient care across central and southeastern Illinois, including eight award‑winning hospitals and a multispecialty provider group with over 1,500 doctors and advanced practice providers. We develop the next generation of providers through Carle Illinois College of Medicine and Methodist College. Magnet®‑designated facilities such as Carle Bro Menn Medical Center, Carle Foundation Hospital, and others offer growth and lifelong careers.

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, veteran status, or disability. 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.

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The compensation range for this position is $15.91 per hour – $25.77 per hour, representing a good‑faith minimum and maximum range at the time of posting. The actual compensation offered will depend on 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.