Peer Specialist

Overview

Turn Your Lived Experience Into Life-Changing Impact

Peer Support Specialist – ACT Team
Jetwing | $18/hour | Full-Time | Non-Exempt

Have you walked the path of recovery and want to help others do the same? Diversus Health is looking for a Peer Support Specialist to join our Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Team, where lived experience is essential.

This role is ideal for someone who believes recovery is possible, thrives in the community, and wants to be part of a compassionate, mission-driven team supporting adults with serious and persistent mental illness.

Why This Role Matters

As a Peer Support Specialist, you’ll use your lived experience to:

• Build trust, hope, and connection with individuals in recovery
• Meet people where they are literally in homes and community settings
• Support skill-building, self-advocacy, and community integration
• Be a powerful voice of encouragement on a multidisciplinary care team

You won’t just support recovery you’ll model it.

• Provide peer-to-peer support grounded in empathy, respect, and recovery
• Engage individuals through outreach, education, and real-world skill building
• Help navigate community resources and strengthen natural supports
• Collaborate with clinicians while maintaining ethical peer boundaries
• Document services and participate in team meetings and trainings

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Lived experience with mental illness and/or substance use recovery OR family experience supporting a loved one
• Active COPA Peer Specialist Certification (required)
• NAMI Peer Provider Training completed
• Valid driver’s license and willingness to travel in the community
• Strong communication skills and basic computer proficiency

At Diversus Health, our values guide everything we do:

• Teamwork – We achieve more together
• Solution-Minded – We embrace challenges as opportunities
• Impactful – We inspire positive outcomes
• Integrity – We do what’s right, always

We offer meaningful work, supportive supervision, and the chance to make a real difference every single day.

Job Title: Peer Specialist
Reports to
:
Supervisor of Care Coordination
FLSA: Non-Exempt
Working

Location:

Jetwing
Salary: $18.00

The Peer Support Specialist– Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a core member of Diversus Health’s multidisciplinary ACT Team, providing community-based peer services to adults with Serious and Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI). ACT is an evidence-based model designed to support individuals with complex behavioral health needs, often including symptoms of psychosis and co-occurring conditions by delivering services in real-world settings that promote stability, recovery, and community integration.

The peer specialist provides outreach, education, and peer-to-peer support services to individuals receiving care at Diversus Health. This role emphasizes engagement, skill-building, advocacy, and connection to resources using a strengths-based, solution-focused approach. Peer Support Specialists use their lived experience to model recovery, maintain healthy boundaries, and collaborate with clinical and community partners to support whole-person wellness.

• Peer Support & Engagement
• Provide peer-to-peer support grounded in lived experience, offering encouragement, empathy, and practical guidance.
• Demonstrate compassion, dignity, and respect while maintaining clear and appropriate professional boundaries.
• Utilize active and reflective listening skills to engage individuals and support recovery goals.
• Model wellness, resilience, and recovery strategies while maintaining personal wellness and recovery plans.
• Work within ethical guidelines and boundaries of a peer professional
• Outreach, Education & Skill Building
• Conduct outreach to individuals and communities to provide basic education on mental health and substance use.
• Support individuals in developing skills that promote independence, self-advocacy, and community integration.
• Connect with defined and marginalized populations to reduce barriers to care and increase access to treatment and supports.
• Resource Navigation & Community Connection
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of community…