Starting Point is looking to fill a position for a Full Time Counselor at our Opioid Treatment Program in Brooklyn Park, MD. We are a growing outpatient methadone/buprenorphine clinic that has been providing comprehensive care to Brooklyn and its surrounding areas for over 15 years. Starting Point is looking for a full time Addictions Counselor to join our tight knit team.

Monday-Friday 5:15am-1:30pm
Occasional Saturdays 6:45am-11:00am

Overview

The Peer Recovery Specialist provides a relationship to vulnerable persons that can help keep an unmotivated or poorly organized client connected to services and maintain housing placements. The approach in peer recovery has key differences to the approach taken by a treatment provider. The Peer Recovery Specialist has responsibility for integrating the lived experience into clients’ treatment goals and services by practicing a strengths-based and harm reduction approach to recovery and wellness.

Overall planning and implementing of services for Veterans (students), including housing, individual counseling, case management, education and employment services, life skills development. Liaison for provider and community relations.

The Peer Recovery Specialist uses their own unique, life-altering experience to build rapport and to guide and support individuals who are in mental health or substance use crisis.  Responsible for providing peer-to-peer support to individuals participating in residential treatment services by helping individuals engage in the process of change.  Position involves meeting face-to-face with individuals who are seeking support with mental health and/or substance use related concerns.  Position involves answering the line providing resources, de-escalation, group facilitation, and vocational e

This hybrid position is responsible for the management of the Kent County Detention Center OUD Treatment Initiative, which seeks to expand treatment and services for inmates with substance use disorders by establishing and operating successful recovery programming that reduces local treatment gaps for incarcerated individuals. The Program Manager, in conjunction with program medical staff, will assess individuals and refer inmates to the program and provide behavioral health counseling and case management services.