Recovery Support Specialist

Schedule: Monday through Friday 8:00a - 4:30p

Pay Range: $22-24/hr

Community Medical Services (CMS) is hiring a substance abuse Recovery Support Specialist to assist patients recovering from addictions to opioids and other illicit substances. You will use your personal recovery experience to provide ongoing guidance coaching and support to individuals seekingor in activerecovery with us.

As a Recovery Support Specialist you will use your personal lived experience with substance use disorder and recovery to bring encouragement connection and advocacy to others seeking support.

This role is about walking beside othersshowing recovery is real possible and worth fighting for.

As part of our mission to help individuals recover from substance use disorders youll thrive in a supportive engaging and fulfilling work environment where your contributions are valued.

Along the way well invest in your well-being through a benefits package that includes:

• Subsidized medical dental and vision insurance
• Health savings account
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid sick vacation and holiday time
• 401K retirement plan with match
• Tuition and CME reimbursement up to 100%
• Employee assistance program to support your mental health and wellness
• Ongoing professional development

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide recovery support in individual and group settings.
• Share your experience in a way that inspires hope and fosters connection.
• Help participants set and work toward meaningful recovery goals.
• Connect individuals with treatment and community resources.
• Model resilience wellness and self-advocacy.
• Partner with the care team to support whole-person wellness.
• Maintain professional boundaries confidentiality and ethics.

Were looking for someone who:

• Has lived experience with a substance use disorder and is living in recovery.
• Is comfortable working in a wide range of settings including any CMS clinic location community-based outpatient setting or correctional health facility.
• Is open to and available for occasional weekend and holiday shifts.

To thrive in this role you must be able to:

• Assist clients in identifying effective coping techniques self-help strategies and increasing social support networks.
• Maintain confidentiality and adhere to professional standards.
• Draw from prior behavioral health experience either as a recipient of services a family member of someone receiving services or a primary caregiver of a service recipient.
• Provide clinical support including assessments to special populations and projects.
• Promote harm reduction and recovery in group settings.
• Travel (with reimbursement) up to 25% of the time to various CMS clinic locations and community events.
• Communicate CMS program and assessment information to community-based service providers.

Required:

• High School Diploma or GED (required)
• Lived experience with substance use disorder and sustained recovery.
• Eligible for state Recovery Support or Peer Support Certification.
• Excellent listening communication and relationship-building skills.

Preferred:

• Prior experience in recovery support advocacy or community-based services.
• Familiarity with trauma-informed care harm reduction and recovery principles.
• Bilingual skills or lived experience representing underrepresented communities.

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About Community Medical Services

Community Medical Services (CMS) is a CARF-accredited addiction treatment program providing services in the form of outpatient medication-assisted treatment and one-on-one and group counseling to those seeking help with their opioid use disorder. Headquartered in Arizona with more than 70 treatment clinics in 14 states CMS is dedicated to meeting the challenges presented by the growing opioid epidemic in communities where treatment is lacking.

Our Commitment

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion national origin sex disability status sexual orientation gender identity age protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Other Conditions

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