Veteran Peer Support Specialist

• Turn your lived military experience into meaningful peer connection and practical support for other Veterans.
• Help reduce isolation stigma and barriers that can keep Veterans from reaching the right support.
• Work alongside case managers outreach specialists VA partners families caregivers and community providers.
• Build specialized skills in Veteran suicide prevention warm handoffs crisis escalation and family engagement.
• Grow professionally through training supervision team consultation and opportunities to pursue peer certification.

• Engage Veterans through one-to-one outreach relationship building and Veteran-to-Veteran peer support.
• Use lived experience thoughtfully and professionally to promote hope trust recovery connection and continued engagement.
• Maintain appropriate peer boundaries honor participant choice protect confidentiality and model professional conduct.

• Help Veterans understand available VA TTHI and community resources and encourage participation in individualized service plans.
• Assist Veterans in overcoming practical or emotional barriers to services and accompany or support them during service linkage when appropriate.
• Conduct follow-up after referrals crisis events emergency-department visits release from incarceration housing transitions missed appointments or other periods of increased risk when assigned.
• Promote social connection by linking Veterans with Veteran-serving organizations community activities family supports caregiver resources and other positive natural supports.

• After required training and demonstrated competency administer assigned VA-required suicide-risk baseline mental-health or wellbeing and other SSG Fox screening or outcome tools within the approved non-clinical scope of the role.
• Recognize and document suicide warning signs changes in risk participant statements or circumstances that may indicate increased risk and immediately initiate established escalation procedures.
• Coordinate immediately with the Program Director a Case Manager or Veteran Navigator VA or crisis-response resources whenever screening or participant contact identifies elevated or imminent risk.
• Support suicide-prevention education Veterans Crisis Line and 988 awareness and approved lethal-means safety education within the peer roles scope.

• With participant consent engage family members caregivers and other Veteran-identified natural supports to strengthen connection reduce isolation and reinforce recovery or wellness goals.
• Provide non-clinical peer education on suicide warning signs Veterans Crisis Line and 988 resources help-seeking stigma reduction supportive communication and approved lethal-means safety information.
• Help families and caregivers understand available VA and community supports and coordinate with the Case Manager or Veteran Navigator when additional service coordination is needed.

• Work closely with Case Managers and Veteran Navigators to identify additional needs and communicate concerns requiring case-management supervisory VA or crisis intervention.
• Document peer and family contacts assigned screenings referrals follow-up safety concerns education and services in accordance with grant consent and confidentiality requirements.
• Participate in community outreach Veteran engagement activities case reviews supervision team meetings and required training.

• Lived experience as a Veteran is required for this Veteran-to-Veteran peer-support role.
• Ability to use lived experience appropriately and professionally to support other Veterans.

• Strong interpersonal communication engagement relationship-building and follow-through skills.
• Ability to work independently in community settings while maintaining appropriate peer boundaries.
• Ability to recognize concerns that require escalation to case-management supervisory VA crisis or emergency resources.
• Ability and willingness to complete required training and demonstrate competency in VA-required suicide-prevention screening and related program tools.
• Sound judgment and respect for participant choice consent confidentiality and professional conduct.

• Valid drivers license and ability to travel regularly throughout Orange and Osceola Counties and the surrounding service area.

• TTHI onboarding and SSG Fox SPGP requirements including confidentiality documentation participant safety trauma-informed care Veteran-specific service delivery VA coordination warm handoffs crisis escalation and family or support-system engagement.
• Administering scoring documenting and responding to VA-required suicide-risk screening baseline mental-health or wellbeing screening and other assigned SSG Fox tools.
• Immediate escalation referral warm-handoff and emergency-response procedures whenever elevated or imminent suicide risk is identified. Standardized screening does not replace clinical evaluation. Applicable VA training and ongoing professional development are required.

Required Experience:

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