MWRAP Recovery Specialist

Job description

Position Summary: The Recovery Specialist delivers person-centered, hands-on recovery support to pregnant and postpartum individuals. The Specialist empowers clients to build recovery skills, strengthen motivation, navigate challenges that affect their stability and wellness, and overcome barriers to achieving self-sufficiency. Drawing on lived experience, the Specialist fosters trust, offers hope, and reinforces a foundation for long-term stability. Through this partnership, the Specialist helps promote healthy pregnancies, strengthen family stability, and advance long-term recovery within the community. Essential Functions: - Provide individual face-to-face services in the clients’ homes, their community, or agency office. Accompany clients to behavioral health, medical, and social service appointments, advocate for appropriate services and care, and assist in reducing barriers to accessing care. - Provide strength-based rehabilitative and recovery-oriented services. Motivate clients to attain and maintain recovery. Educate clients on harm reduction techniques. Facilitate recovery-oriented discussions with clients. - Serve as a role model, mentor, and advocate to help prevent rel...