Recovery Navigator-Women's REACH
Listed on 2026-09-03
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Healthcare
Substance Abuse Counselor, Community Health, Mental Health, Patient/Health Advocate
JOB TITLE: Recovery Navigator
EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Full-time, 40hrs/week
SCHEDULED
HOURS:
Monday-Friday 8am-4:30pm or 8:30am-5pm
PROGRAM/
LOCATION:
Women's REACH, Willimantic
PC#: 2888
ABOUT THE PROGRAM:
Women's REACH
The Women’s REACH program is designed to provide outreach, engagement, short term case management, recovery coaching, connections to community, and recovery support resources to pregnant and parenting women with substance use or co-occurring disorders AND parenting/expecting fathers, grandparents, LGBTQIA+ individuals, partners of WRN clients, and other immediate parenting family or natural support who have been impacted by substance use, either personally by the use of the child’s parent.
With the support of a Recovery Support Specialist, these individuals will be connected to resources they need to facilitate their recovery including but not limited to MAT/MOUD and behavioral health supports, community supports, harm reduction, Family Care Plan development, reproductive health services, medical needs, basic needs, and child needs.
- Assists clients in identifying and advocating their own recovery goals.
- Utilizes appropriate program models, including motivational interventions by informing and educating on establishing or strengthening their own recovery strategies.
- Conducts program specific assessments and screens as indicated.
- Collaborates with those served to create individualized and person-centered treatment plans as indicated by program requirements.
- Conducts skills teaching to assist clients as needed.
- May provide crisis intervention or de-escalation as needed.
- Provides case management. Works in close collaboration with the client’s natural supports and treatment teams. Connects to prosocial activities. Provides crisis intervention and de-escalation as needed.
- Participates in interventions to help reduce health care disparities, which may include screening for Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) such as housing, medical insurance, food security and transportation to identify and then help resolve barriers to healthcare.
- Complies and shares knowledge of appropriate community resources and assists in linking clients to behavioral health and addiction follow up care, natural (family, friends) supports, community resources including LGBTQ+, Veteran’s and/or other support groups in a culturally informed, strength-based manner.
- Provide follow-up engagement support including but not limited to brief recovery coaching, relapse prevention and safety planning support and inclusion of family involvement where appropriate.
- Maintains documentation in compliance with agency and program standards.
- Participates in staff meetings, supervision, training, and other meetings as assigned.
- Transports clients as required by program.
- Additional duties as required.
Education: Lived experience establishing and maintaining recovery from mental health or substance use condition(s) as required by position.
Experience: 2+ years working with identified populations and specifically as an RSS preferred. Self identifies as an individual with mental health and or substance use disorder in long term recovery. REACH WRN:
Must identify as a woman in recovery. REACH WFRN: may be a woman or any individual who identifies as a woman who has the lived experience of being a person in recovery from a substance use or co-occurring disorder OR has the lived experience of supporting immediate family/partner in their recovery from a substance use disorder or co-occurring disorder.
Licensure/Certification/Registration: Recovery Support Specialist Certification from Advocacy Unlimited, Recovery Coach Certification from CCAR, or an equivalent certification related to the field of Recovery Support required or must be obtained within 6 months of hire. Valid Driver’s License required.
Training: REACH WRN & WFRN: will successfully complete or has completed (within three (3) months of hire) a DMHAS approved thirty (30)-hour recovery-oriented training program and if previously completed, can provide documentation of such.
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