Recovery Specialist
Company Overview:
A premier residential addiction treatment facility and mental health rehabilitation center operating an elite healthcare campus within Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Specializing in advanced behavioral therapeutics, medical detoxification monitoring, and long-term psychiatric wellness workflows, the organization integrates multidisciplinary clinical intervention programs with peer-led stabilization methodologies to deliver compassionate, evidence-based, and highly confidential patient recovery journeys.
Job Description:
We are seeking an empathetic, dedicated Recovery Specialist to join a multidisciplinary care team at a premium residential addiction treatment facility in Abu Dhabi. This is a crucial, lived-experience role focused on guiding patients through the critical early phases of dependency recovery within a highly structured and therapeutic environment. The full-time position requires leveraging personal insights and established rehabilitation frameworks to help patients build emotional stability and operational routine under a collaborative healthcare management team.
🔹 Key Responsibilities:
- Support residential patients in early sobriety stages by guiding them through structured daily facility routines, therapeutic activities, and accountability schedules.
- Provide high-impact peer support and emotional mentoring drawing responsibly from personal long-term recovery achievements and specialized counseling practices.
- Encourage, guide, and facilitate active patient participation in 12-step recovery programs, including Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA) frameworks.
- Offer continuous motivational counseling and grounding techniques during high-stress moments or emotional challenges along the rehabilitation pathway.
- Work closely with clinical teams, case managers, and healthcare professionals to align peer strategies with formal medical and psychological treatment plans.
- Help patients identify psychological triggers and develop personalized coping strategies to maintain long-term sobriety and lifestyle stability.
🔹 Requirements:
- Minimum 5+ years of continuous personal recovery experience from substance or behavioral addiction is an absolute prerequisite.
- Active, ongoing involvement and deep structural familiarity with 12-step recovery programs (AA, NA, or closely related community support frameworks).
- Prior professional experience operating as a Certified Recovery Coach, Peer Support Specialist, or Behavioral Health Technician is highly preferred.
- Fluent Arabic speaking, writing, and reading capabilities are strictly required to communicate effectively with the primary patient demographic.
- Exceptional interpersonal engagement, active listening, and boundary-setting skills to work productively within a highly sensitive and confidential therapeutic landscape.
- Comprehensive knowledge of addiction recovery processes, trauma-informed peer care methods, and crisis de-escalation techniques.
- Certification in Peer Support, Addiction Counseling, Mental Health Support, or a related healthcare field from an accredited body is highly preferred.
What We Offer:
- Competitive baseline fixed salary package structured from AED 5,000 to 7,000, determined entirely by peer coaching certifications and counseling background.
- The profound opportunity to transform lives using lived experience within a highly supportive and professional clinical environment.
- Continuous professional exposure to cutting-edge behavioral health methodologies and guidance under leading psychiatric specialists in Abu Dhabi.