Job Details
**Recovery Support Specialist - Wichita - 1st shift**
**Full Time Schedule: 1st shift - Typically 7:00 am-3:00 pm with two days off per week. May be requested to cover other shifts as needed.**
Recovery Support Specialists serve an integral role in clients' substance abuse recovery. Recovery Support Specialists monitor and direct client activity and are responsible for the implementation of agency policies.
DCCCA's comprehensive continuum of substance abuse treatment and outpatient mental health counseling in Wichita offers gender-responsive and family focused services for both men and women. Located in Wichita, one of Kansas's largest metropolitan areas, DCCCA clients come primarily from Sedgwick County but are accepted from referral sources state-wide. Substance abuse treatment services include non-medical detoxification, short term intensive and extended stay residential programs, intensive outpatient modalities, outpatient counseling and primary healthcare collaboration. Outpatient counseling for both substance use and mental health needs are facilitated via tele-health technology or in office sessions. DCCCA's unique gender-responsive program provides services to women, women with dependent children, and pregnant women. A licensed childcare, parenting, case management and mental health services are integrated into the substance abuse treatment modalities.
**Position Overview:**
* Creates a safe client environment by performing all required security and safety procedures
* Assists in the client's orientation of treatment goals, program rules and structure
* Documents required program and client information in a timely and complete manner
* Monitors client's weekly schedule and adherence to policies and procedures related to facility/equipment usage
* Supports Counselors and other treatment providers with the coordination and implementation of client services from admission through discharge
* Consults with members of the treatment team and other professionals as necessary and implements recommendations received to ensure quality client care
**Requirements include:**
* High School diploma or GED
* A valid driver's license with a good driving record
* Must pass pre-employment background checks and drug screening
**DCCCA is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer and a tobacco and drug-free workplace.**