Job Details

The Certified Recovery Specialist is a member of the Jefferson-Einstein care team providing services for a diverse population seeking or receiving Primary Care services where there is a substance use disorder with or without a co-morbid mental disorder. The CRS improves the delivery of Primary Care service processes by providing targeted, immediate, and brief interventions including but not limited to: providing recovery education; supporting patients in crisis by identifying acute stressors and attempting to mediate them; advocating for patients to ensure their needs are adequately acknowledged and addressed; supporting families who present to the PCP clinics requesting information about substance/Alcohol/Tobacco use disorders and co-morbid mental disorders.

Job Description

Core Job Responsibilities:

• Provide recovery education for every phase of the recovery journey from pre-recovery engagement, recovery initiation, recovery stabilization, and sustained recovery maintenance.
• Provide a model for both people in recovery and staff by demonstrating that recovery is possible.
• Actively identify and support linkages to community resources (communities of recovery, MOUD, educational, vocational, social, cultural, spiritual resources, mutual self- help groups, professional services, etc.) that support the recovering person’s goals and interests.
• Provide vision-driven hope and encouragement for opportunities at varying levels of involvement in community-based activities (e.g., work, school, relationships, physical activity, self-directed hobbies, etc.).
• Develop relationships with community groups/agencies in partnership with others in EHN Identify barriers (internal and external) to full participation in EHN or community resources and develop strategies to overcome those barriers.
• Maintain contact either in-person, by phone and/or e-mail with recovering person for 12 months once they engage in a recovery program to ensure ongoing success and to provide re-engagement support in partnership with others in the EHN if needed.
• Serve as an essential link between patients and all other care providers. RS is responsible for interacting with patient service representatives to expedite scheduling for follow-up and acute care appointments within EHN. Meet with patient at least monthly to assess compliance, address patient needs and gain insight into unmet needs. Coordinate information and patient needs (social service, health and medication) with appropriate interdisciplinary provider: PCP, social work, MOUD provider, D&A provider, etc.
• Follow patients throughout the care continuum, including inpatient admissions, discharges from all levels of care, and collaborate with inpatient care management resources.
• Track all data requirements related to client activity and requirements set within Primary Care Medicine, Behavioral Health or other EHN key departments.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate flexibility and creativity, clinical expertise, initiative, leadership, and communication skills necessary to collaborate with a medical team in a fast-paced clinical setting.

This position requires providing service to the following age population(s): children, adolescents, adults and older adults in a manner that demonstrates an understanding of the functional/developmental age of the individual served. 

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Education/Training/Experience:

• Lived experience as a consumer of SUD services .
• High school diploma or equivalent (required).
• Maintained a job or volunteer position for at least 12 months within the past three years or earned 24 post-secondary education credits (required).

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Licenses/Certifications: (indicate if required or preferred) 

• Certification: Certified Recovery Specialist, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (required).
• Certification: Psychological First Aid certification (preferred). Certified Peer specialist (plus)

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Physical Demand Analysis:

Physical Requirements: Must be able to walk long distances, sit and stand for long periods of time. Frequently lift, push, pull, and move 35-50 pounds (patients and equipment). Able to use approved physical management techniques in managing patients.  Exposure to inside environmental conditions, bloodborne pathogens and respiratory pathogens.

Visual Requirements: Visual dexterity in working with charts, equipment, and computers.

Hearing Requirements: Able to hear on the phone and in person general conversation.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Albert Einstein Medical Center

Primary Location Address

5501 Old York Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.    

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educa­tional and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status. 

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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