Why join The Walker Center?

The Walker Center in Gooding, Idaho, is looking for a Project Support Staff. If you are passionate about changing the lives of those struggling with addiction, join us to make a difference. You’ll not only collaborate with the project team to coordinate the clients’ needs, but you will also be a point of contact in facilitating care coordination to support the clients. You’ll be a part of The Walker Center family, helping hundreds of people find the help, hope, and healing needed for recovery from addiction.

Our Perks

• Free meals for employees

• Medical insurance, with very low premiums or zero out of pocket, including low cost voluntary dental and vision insurance

  • Choose between HSA - zero premiums or PPO at $25/mo

• Employee Assistance Program, including free counseling sessions per “life-stresser” events & more resources

• Career growth opportunities & ongoing education

  • Quarterly trainings for all employees

  • Professional development planning

  • Workshops or trainings that align with departmental & individual career goals

• Simple IRA retirement plan with 3% match, no waiting period

• Competitive salaries

• Employees accrue 18 days of paid time off per year, and also have 6 national holidays

• Tuition reimbursement program

• Discounted gym membership

• A beautiful setting surrounded by gorgeous Idaho nature

Overview

As the Project Support Staff, you’ll report directly to the Director of Clinical Services and Performance, and will be responsible for assisting the Social Worker and Care Team to support long-term sobriety and wellness for our clients, specifically for the HOPE Project - a program that offers free drug and alcohol treatment to those who most need it.

Skills

• Collaborate with the project team and individual clients to plan and coordinate a package of services to meet the client’s needs

• Provide outcome data tracking and reporting

• Monitor, track, and provide support for a client

• Assist the client in strength-based problem solving while they are re-establishing external resources

• Advocate with and enhance outside external resources to enhance client success in recovery and overall wellness

• Participate in discharge planning for level of care transitions

• Problem-solving skills

• Follow up with clients to monitor engagement in ongoing care and monitor for relapse potential

• Ability to receive constructive feedback

• Awareness of time constraints and consistently strives to use time effectively

• Sound, mature, and professional judgment and decision-making

• Empathy

• Teamwork

• Multi-tasking abilities

• Proactivity

• Engaging personality

• Group rapport

• Confrontation skills

• Listening and communicative skills

Tools

• Microsoft Office

• Experience with scheduling software

Qualifications

• High school equivalent. Additional education preferred.

• Must be at least 21 years of age

• Must have current driver’s license and good driving record.

• Anyone who is in recovery from a substance use disorder and identifies as a person in recovery must have a minimum of five years of sobriety from substances of abuse.

• Must pass pre-hire requirements including a criminal background check, UA, and TB test. Must be CPR certified within 30 days of hire.

Work environment

• Working with substance use and mental health disorders. Employees work under typical office conditions.

• Active communication between all the members of The Walker Center.

Application 

If you're interested, don’t hesitate to apply with us, and send us your resume.

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