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Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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**Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center **: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

**Organization:**

Team Firefly

**Job Summary:**

JOB SUMMARY:

This Peer Recovery Coach supports services to patients with substance use disorder (SUD) and will assist patients in achieving and sustaining recovery as defined by each individual patient, with some guidance. Facilitates patient access to recovery-oriented substance use disorder treatment, resources, and community recovery groups. Maintains ongoing patient support regardless of relapse and will serve as a motivator, ally, role model, sounding board, and advocate for patients with substance use disorders.

**DEPARTMENT SUMMARY:**

- Firefly is an outpatient clinical program at VUMC that provides comprehensive, multi-disciplinary care to pregnant and postpartum women with substance use disorder. Offering services including prenatal and postpartum care, social work and peer recovery support, lactation and pediatric services, collaborative mental health care, intensive outpatient programming, group therapy, and health-related social needs support including transportation, clothing, food, and diapers, Firefly supports women in recovery and their families with wholistic, trauma-informed care. Firefly is seeking a Peer Recovery Specialist to serve on its expansion team, enabling women in rural areas in Middle Tennessee (Pleasant View, Columbia, Lawrenceburg, Tullahoma, etc.) to access services through a combination of telehealth and in-person visits. The expansion peer will maintain a hybrid schedule, seeing patients on-site at expansion locations 2-3 days/week, working from the One Hundred Oaks clinic 1 day/week, and working remaining hours remotely.

**POSITION DETAILS:**

- 1 year of peer recovery support experience (STRONGLY PREFERRED)

- CPRS “Certified Peer Recovery Specialist” (STRONGLY PREFERRED)

**SHIFT/SCHEDULE:**

- M-F | 40 hours/week hybrid in-person/remote | 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM

- Opportunity to sign up for after-hour shifts, but not a requirement

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:**

- Serves as a liaison between the recovery community, the addiction treatment system, the medical treatment system, and the patient’s community, family, and social context to facilitate connections across systems of care.

- Meets with patients in clinical and community settings to understand their needs and personal goals, support the exploration of potential positive and negative consequences associated with personal goals, and work collaboratively with the patient to remove obstacles that might interfere with goal attainment.

- Educates patients about addiction safe use practices, multiple pathways of recovery, and utilizes motivational enhancement techniques

- Conducts active outreach efforts to encourage attendance and participation in recovery-oriented, self-help, and pro-social groups.

- Works collaboratively with treatment team in support of evidence-based services to patients.

- Assists with access to treatment for patients, understanding and using systems and procedures to rapidly support identified needs of the patient and assists with data collection for quality assurance and program evaluation.

**TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES:**

- Clinical Counseling (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate clinical counseling in practical applications of moderate difficulty.

- Patient Assessment (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate patient assessments in practical applications of moderate difficulty.

- Peer Leadership (Novice): The ability to show leadership and influence people of equal rank in an effort to accomplish team goals.

Allied health is among the fastest growing occupations in healthcare today. This area can be defined as credentialed professionals who perform supportive, diagnostic, and therapeutic health care services to promote health and prevent disease in a variety of settings.

These areas are crucial to Vanderbilt Health’s reputation for excellence in these areas that has made us a major center for patient referrals from throughout the Mid-South.

Each year, people throughout Tennessee and the southeast choose Vanderbilt Health for their health care because of our leadership in medical science and our dedication to treating patients with dignity and compassion.

**Core Accountabilities:**

-  Organizational Impact: Performs tasks that are typically routine that may impact team's performance with occasional guidance. * Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Utilizes some discretion and research to solve routine problems. * Breadth of Knowledge: Applies knowledge of standards, established processes and procedure that apply to your own job. * Team Interaction: Provides guidance to entry level co-workers.

**Core Capabilities :**

Supporting Colleagues : Develops Self and Others: Continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities.- Builds and Maintains Relationships: Seeks to understand colleagues' priorities, working styles and develops relationships across areas.- Communicates Effectively: Openly shares information with others and communicates in a clear and courteous manner. Delivering Excellent Services: - Serves Others with Compassion: Invests time to understand the problems, needs of others and how to provide excellent service.- Solves Complex Problems: Seeks to understand issues, solves routine problems, and raises proper concerns in a timely manner. - Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Listens carefully to understand the issues and provides accurate information and support. Ensuring High Quality: - Performs Excellent Work: Checks work quality before delivery and asks relevant questions to meet quality standards. - Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Demonstrates basic knowledge of conditions that affect safety and reports unsafe conditions to the appropriate person or department. Managing Resources Effectively : - Demonstrates Accountability: Takes responsibility for completing assigned activities and thinks beyond standard approaches to provide high-quality work/service. - Stewards Organizational Resources: Displays understanding of how personal actions will impact departmental resources. - Makes Data Driven Decisions: Uses accurate information and good decision making to consistently achieve results on time and without error. Fostering Innovation : - Generates New Ideas: Willingly proposes/accepts ideas or initiatives that will impact day-to-day operations by offering suggestions to enhance them. - Applies Technology: Absorbs new technology quickly; understands when to utilize the appropriate tools and procedures to ensure proper course of action. - Adapts to Change: Embraces changes by keeping an open mind to changing plans and incorporates change instructions into own area of work.

**Position Qualifications:**

**Responsibilities:**

**Certifications:**

CPRS - Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

**Work Experience:**

Relevant Work Experience

**Experience Level :**

Less than 1 year

**Education:**

High School Diploma or GED

~~Vanderbilt Health is committed to fostering an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and is committed to the principles of equal opportunity. EOE/Vets/Disabled. ~~

Recovery Coach | FT – Days | Vanderbilt Health

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