Position: Uplift Coach
Full-time
Immediate Report: Director of Coaching Services & Family Intervention
Job Supervision Duty: None
About Us: Fathers’ UpLift (FUL) is the country’s first mental health and substance abuse treatment facility for fathers and families, helping fathers become and remain emotionally stable for their children. Fathers' UpLift uses peer coaching, father-child therapy, training, youth programs, and support for incarcerated and recently released fathers to honor and rehabilitate the relationship between thousands of fathers and families in the Boston area. In their outpatient clinic, over 800 fathers and families receive mental health services from clinicians trained in trauma who reflect the population being served. Outside of the clinic, Fathers' UpLift partners with community centers, substance abuse programs, and other agencies to build a holistic approach to helping fathers rebuild their lives and their relationship with the family.
UpLifting Coaching Department: Our Uplifting Coaches are experienced mentors, fathers, and father figures. Each coach has overcome a significant barrier (homelessness, depression, anxiety, unemployment, fear, feelings of inadequacy, etc.) in their life that nearly prevented them from remaining engaged in the lives of their children. As a coach, they utilize their personal experiences to help fathers manage the stressors related to fatherhood and achieve their desired goals. Our Uplift coaching services focus on navigating issues with the Department of Children and Families (DCF), custodial issues, and re-entry into society. This role will feature extensive partnership with the Detox services at Mass General Brigham (MGB). The UpLift Coach (Aftercare) will work closely with providers and discharge coordinators at MGB to create tailored plans for recently hospitalized clients and arrange aftercare, to include services from FUL.
Essential Responsibilities of The Participant
- Carry a consistent caseload of fathers of 10 – 25 fathers. Coaches are responsible for supporting assigned fathers by identifying their needs and addressing those needs as they arise throughout their involvement in services.
- Complete the required assessments and re-evaluations in a timely and efficient manner.
- Coordinate and execute linkages to identified referrals.
- Aid with transportation and planning to ensure that the father gets to and from essential appointments.
- Conduct Therapeutic Transports: supporting fathers before their release, developing a plan before their release, and ensuring that transportation is coordinated/provided as soon as they are released.
- Maintain quality relationships with fathers within MGB for up to 3-months before their release.
- Engage in research to identify resources, benefits, and opportunities to assist fathers with achieving their desired goals.
- Identify the moments where lived experience can be used as a tool to connect fathers to resources and opportunities that have been useful personally.
- Engage in data collection to assess fathers' emotional progress, utilizing the Fathers' Uplift Wellness Scale and any other instruments that are being used.
- Build relationships with providers and staff at MGB and serve as primary partnership contact.
- Participate in discharge planning with MGB patients.
- Build a robust understanding of FUL services and communicate these services to MGB staff and potential clients.
- Service on the Recovery Village as a provider; coordinate care, facilitate groups, provide insight for a multidisciplinary team of FUL providers.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $48,000.00 - $50,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
Experience:
- Addiction counseling: 1 year (Required)
Ability to Commute:
- Boston, MA 02124 (Required)
Work Location: In person