Must have a Certified Recovery Support Specialist (CRSS) or Certified Peer Recovery Specialist (CPRS) credential by the State of Illinois
Job Summary
We are seeking Certified Recovery Support Specialists to join our team! In this full-time on-site role, you will be responsible for providing support, encouragement, and advocacy for clients in recovery. You will work collaboratively with clinical staff and case managers to provide care coordination and connect clients to community and supportive services. The Certified Recovery Support Specialist will focus on tension points where patients need additional resources to ensure they are prepared for transition and supported in recovery while navigating re-entry processes that can seem overwhelming to them.
We are seeking individuals with lived experience who are dedicated to providing compassionate peer recovery support. Clients should be committed to harm reduction and willing to engage in our programs such as SMART Recovery, WRAP, and Recovery Dharma.
Above and Beyond is growing programs and Certified Recovery Support Specialists will have the opportunity to work on different teams related to recovery including outreach, housing, and veteran services.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with clinical staff, community partners, social service programs to coordinate care and linkage to services
- Facilitate group sessions
- Provides temporary social and emotional support
- Advocates for client's needs
- Engages in Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP)
- Teaches coping and community adjustment skills
- Monitor and track client outcomes and goals
- Liaise and communicate with referring agencies and staff appropriately; provide ongoing support to participants and communicate with Above and Beyond staff to ensure positive, trauma informed linkage to supportive services.
Qualifications
- Must have a Certified Recovery Support Specialist (CRSS) or Certified Peer Recovery Specialist (CPRS) credential by the State of Illinois
- Strong problem-solving and organizational skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects or tasks and prioritize appropriately
- Excellent interpersonal skills and high level of compassion
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to travel across Greater Chicago (certain CRSS positions will require frequent offsite travel)
- Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team
Benefits/Perks
- 401(k)
- 100% Employer paid health insurance
- Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, and more!
OUR MISSION
The vision of Above and Beyond is to build an individualized treatment experience that is available to anyone in need regardless of their economic status. Our clients and clinicians create therapeutic alliances that design and execute personalized programs of recovery that co-exist side-by-side personal development and growth goals. We believe that recovery is a process that requires meeting individuals where they are at as well as addressing their environmental life circumstances such as: education, employment readiness, interpersonal relationships, and social re-integrative abilities and activities.
Compassion. Competence. Communal Healing.
The vision of Above and Beyond is to build an individualized treatment experience that is available to anyone in need regardless of their economic status. Our clients and clinicians create therapeutic alliances that design and execute personalized programs of recovery that co-exist side-by-side personal development and growth goals. We believe that recovery is a process that requires meeting individuals where they are at as well as addressing their environmental life circumstances such as: education, employment readiness, interpersonal relationships, and social redintegrative abilities and activities.
Our Philosophy - Compassion. Competence. Communal Healing. “We believe you can be well.” With these simple words, the founders of Above and Beyond have brought together a seasoned team of staff members from the healthcare community with decades of personal and professional experience in the ever changing field of substance use. When we say, “we believe you can be well” we’re stating our belief in everyone’s ability to experience healing, hope and health when properly stimulated, educated, and supported. It’s this expectation of communal success that drives us to provide our solid foundation of excellence in prevention/intervention to the most fragile and vulnerable people of Chicagoland.
Above and Beyond, committed to the idea that, “everything begins in the relationship,” is intentional about creating a unique hybrid by incorporating what has worked in the past with what evidence-based modern recovery methodology tells us to do in the present. We’re trying to graft a humanitarian touch into the highest standards of professionalism known in the substance abuse industry.
This is our quest, with an intended outcome of returning our clients to their birthright status of being responsible agents of their own destinies.
The concept that we humans have free will and are capable of choosing more for our lives when we’re lovingly recognized, engaged, and motivated to a higher level of being is not new, yet this simple truth is often lost in the language of professional intervention.
Embracing a “People First” interface with our many constituencies is reflected in our reference to “clients with substance struggles,” rather than, “addicts or alcoholics”. Our behaviors should not define us and through our relationship via our shared human experience we try to foster a responsibility for each other in which we find an amplified and expanded level of healing, both ways.
We’ve tried to weave this philosophy into the fabric of who we are across our small but growing organization and all its programs. Staff members embrace and support these cornerstone values which have been developed by the original group who designed Above and Beyond and have put it on its feet.
Come and be a part of us on either side. There are countless points of entry and if these words strike any kind of chord with you, you must join us.
Employment
Can you really say that you are satisfied in your current position?
Is your employer attentive to your individual needs?
Are you changing lives the way that you’d like to?
Are you listened to?
Will you be proud to spend your remaining working days where you are and retire with regret?
If your answer is “NO” to any of the above questions then you should consider coming to work for one of the employee-friendliest organizations in the substance abuse industry.
Take a moment to read our mission statement and pay attention to the big role we give our employees. Our product is our people and the work that we do with our clients is our most valuable asset. This could be one of the biggest reasons we have virtually no turnover. How many ads of ours have your seen in the local or electronic media?
We’ve scrapped a lot of industry dysfunction, like stoic programs that march ahead whether they work or not, managerial lack of listening ability, and demotivational interviewing. Different maybe, but to us it seems so normal that we can¹t figure out why it hasn’t always been this way.
If what we say interests you then fill out an application and either mail it in to us, attach it to an email addressed to
[email protected]. If we have no positions open in your area of expertise (as you might expect, we have a plethora of applicants), we will keep your application and resume for future consideration.
One additional assurance we offer any applicant is that your resume and/or application and/or confidential contact information will not be seen by or communicated to ANYONE ELSE until there is mutual consent. We come from the trenches ourselves and understand the delicate nature of a career change. Therefore, anyone who feels “trapped” in a position or “obligated or indebted” to their current patriarch or even “scared” to come out of the woods, please give the idea another think-through. We¹re not hindered by of any of that business because we don’t participate in it. We are problems solvers by profession and we wear the white hats. Please remember that.
However, with all of that said, we are only interested in the “Best of the Best” so please don¹t apply unless you can demonstrate a tangible, unblemished employment history. We check all references (eventually) and educational claims and we expect nothing less than what was presented to us as fact. This characteristic of complete disclosure and total honesty is consistent with our modus operandi and you¹ll be pleased with the fact that you get the same consideration of total transparency from the office as well. It works both ways. If we are able to schedule an interview, or you are in the area and you just want to drop in, you can have the opportunity to meet and judge us for what we are. We’re upfront. We play no games. We do what we say. And we’re here for only one reason . . . our clients!
Now go take another look at our mission statement, compare it to your current life activity and tell us if we should be looking forward to hearing from you!
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