Now Hiring! Recovery Support Specialist

ACTS is growing! We are seeking a compassionate, driven individual to join us in making a lasting impact through meaningful work on the Addictions Receiving Team!

What's In It for You:

Schedule: Monday-Friday

Salary Range: $18-$19.50 an hour 

Location: On-Site at our Addictions Receiving Facility in Tampa, Florida.

Benefits: Eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Short and Long-Term Disability, Employer Paid Basic Life Insurance. Voluntary Life Insurance and other supplemental policy offerings on the first day of the month following 60 days of full-time employment.

Your Future: 403(B) retirement account with up to 5% company match.

Work/Life Balance: 10 company paid holidays and 11 days paid time off per year.

What You'll be Doing:

• Utilizes lived experience and motivational interviewing techniques to encourage entry to, or continuation of, treatment services for substance use/behavioral health disorders.
• Provides education on substance use disorders, as well as recovery/treatment options to persons served.
• Engages and motivates patients in a supportive role both one-on-one and through other means of communication to help them accomplish treatment plan goals and model recovery-oriented behaviors and decision making.
• Creates rapport with local substance use treatment agencies to coordinate linkage and retention in care.
• Participates in multidisciplinary team meetings to review case status.
• Enters service and support notes into electronic health record.
• Assists case management staff to ensure smooth transitions to the next level of care (warm hand-offs), is completed, to avoid gaps in service, and respond rapidly for needed support and/or intervention.
• Supports person served with engagement or re-engagement to education, employment, housing and/or other needed wraparound services.
• May transport materials to medical, legal, recreational, and other community appointments that support recovery.
• May attend court-hearings as advocate of persons served.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

What is Required:

• High School diploma, or equivalency.
• Minimum of two (2) years lived experience as an adult in recovery from a substance use/behavioral health disorder.
• Certified Recovery Peer Specialist (CRPS) is required. If not certified at time of hire, must obtain certification within the first year.
• Must possess valid Florida Drivers' License
• Must be able to fully participate in Welle (crisis intervention) and CPR/First Aid training.
• Must be eligible for Level II background clearance.

Who We Are: https://www.actsfl.org/

The Florida Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse, or 'Clearinghouse', helps ensure that caregivers, health workers, and educators meet Level 2 background screening standards before they can work with children, seniors, or other vulnerable groups. For more information, please visit https://info.flclearinghouse.com.

ACTS is a drug-free workplace, and all applicants are subject to pre-employment drug screening and adherence to all related policies throughout employment.

ACTS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

ACTS, Inc. participates in the federal government's E-Verify program, which confirms employment authorization of all newly hired employees and most existing employees through an electronic database maintained by the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security. For all new hires, the E-Verify process is completed in conjunction with the Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification on or before the first day of work. E-Verify is not used as a tool to pre-screen candidates. For up-to-date information on E-Verify, go to www.uscis.gov and click on 'E-Verify' located near the bottom of the page.