About the role
MedStar Health is looking for a Peer Recovery Coach OSOP to join our team! We are looking for someone with excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to relate to patients and health professionals, and to develop professional working relationships with partner agencies. Must have excellent listening, verbal and written communication, and problem-solving skills.
The Peer Recovery Coach OSOP will provide outreach and engagement to survivors of an opiate overdose after discharge and referral from the emergency department. Provides non-clinical services intended to aid patients in establishing recovery and reducing the risk associated with a subsequent overdose. The OSOP Peer Recovery Coach will help complete referrals to recovery support and substance abuse treatment services and develop service plans to promote successful linkage to referred services.
Services will primarily be provided in the community; however, the Coach may meet patients in the ED (Emergency Department) to assure successful continuity in care. Join one of the largest healthcare systems in the Baltimore-Washington metro region, also recognized as one of the "Healthiest Maryland Businesses". Apply today and learn how MedStar Health can be your next great career move!
Primary Duties: Acts as peer support after a patient is discharged from the hospital. This involves face-to-face and phone engagement with patients in various community settings. Assists patients in linking to community support and treatment services, including helping secure transportation and other resources, and in setting personal recovery goals.
Conducts screenings to understand the patient’s history of drug and/or alcohol use, treatment history, social service and other recovery support needs and motivation to change behavior. Conducts street outreach to locate and engage with referred OSOP patients from hospital emergency departments. Facilitates patient’s readiness for change and uses motivational interviewing techniques and other communication skills to support and encourage the patient to plan for reduction or elimination of drug and alcohol use.
Offers support to patients who have recently overdosed and encourages access to treatment. The peer recovery coaches use knowledge from their life experience to encourage participants to be responsible for their own recovery from opioid use or overdose. Additionally, they listen, share, and provide materials and information about general and local resources.
Provides education on risks of overdose and assures that patients and significant others have naloxone and are trained to use. Provides family members with recovery support materials. Supports patients and families to understand how to access community resources.
Works with healthcare team and patient to identify community supports and treatment services to promote recovery. Completes required reports and other necessary documentation accurately.
High School Diploma or GED. Must be actively engaged in his/her own recovery program with at least three years of personal recovery and sustained abstinence from alcohol and/or drug use with no relapses. Peer Recovery Specialist certification or attained within 180 Days.
Obtains certification through the Maryland Addiction Professional Board within 1-1/2 years. This position has a hiring range of USD $19.55 - USD $34.25 /Hr.