Job Description
When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
As a member of the Addiction Consult Service, this position provides non-clinical support to individuals who present in an ED and/or Inpatient at Beverly and Addison Gilbert Hospitals. Serve as a recovery guide and role model in the management of recovery and assist the individual to identify and overcome barriers to recovery, connect the individual with recovery support services and encourage hope, optimism and health. Provide support with problem solving and advocacy to assist individuals to meet their recovery goals. Provide education to individuals and family members on the recovery process. As a member of the Addiction Consult Service, this position engages with patients who are high ED utilizers to coordinate with peer networks/natural supports, coordinate referrals to community social services providers, follow up on referrals and contribute to the treatment plan revisions.Job Description:
Essential Role Responsibilities:
Subject matter expert in the Addiction Treatment service system and Pathways to recovery
Ability to communicate treatment and pathway options to patients Assess patient’s treatment needs and develop collaborative plan with the individual patient and supports
Leads Group Recovery Sessions
Uses time management and prioritization skills to to address patients needs in the ED, Admitted Patients and Community visitations
Follow up via telephone or text when patient is discharged and continue engagement with patients willing to collaborate
Documentation in EPIC system and other administrative requirements deemed necessary by Supervisor
Educate patients and healthcare peers on SUD and AUD
Utilize motivational interviewing to explore causal factors and triggers of a patient’s AUD or SUD
Demonstrates professional boundaries regarding confidentiality and personal relationships, while being able to share personal experiences of their own recovery journey
Completes training assigned by the organization and act as a role model and advocate to teammates, peers and supervisors
Provides linkage to peer networks and natural supports where and when appropriate
Collaborate, communicate and advocate with cross functional teams
Education/Experience:
18 years or older and high school diploma required; Bachelor's degree preferred.
Driver’s license and car required.
Be a Peer with lived addiction experience.
Have at least two years of current, sustained recovery without reoccurrence.
Preferred to have completed the Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS) Recovery Coach Academy or the Connecticut Community Addiction Recovery (CCAR) training prior to working. Licensure is changing - so when new requirements come out this will be reviewed with current employee and timelines discussed for obtaining state licensure requirement.
Pay Range:
$27.83 - $37.45The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.
As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.
More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
Anna Jaques Hospital is a 123 bed community hospital serving 17 cities and towns in the Merrimack Valley . The hospital offers a wide range of acute care services to meet the needs of our growing patient population including inpatient and outpatient surgery in fully digitized computerized operating room suites, cardiology including echocardiography and a cardiac cath lab, comprehensive cancer services, orthopedics, nuclear medicine, laboratory, noninvasive vascular lab, joint replacement program and birth center.
Programs include the number one wound center in the nation, a primary stroke service, and Level III Trauma Center . Diagnostic imaging services for patients include MRI, CT, PET, and the PACS digital x-ray system. In addition, we are one of only three healthcare communities to be selected for the pilot Massachusetts e-Health Collaborative. Due to the dedication of our physicians, we are one of the first communities in Massachusetts to implement electronic health records, system-wide, for the safety of our patients.
Awards
The hospitals Non Invasive Vascular laboratory was accredited by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories (ICAVL).
For the second year in a row, the American Association for Respiratory Care awarded the hospital its Quality Respiratory Care Recognition. The hospital had no ventilator acquired pneumonia cases during the last year.
The Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center is the only such center to receive full accreditation from the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) in Massachusetts .
The hospital is accredited by The Joint Commission, an organization that surveys and rates the performance of hospitals at least every three years. The Joint Commission Dedicated, good employees are one of your strengths. You have a lot to be proud of.
