Veteran Peer Support Specialist

Employment Type: Full-Time
FLSA Classification: Non
- Exempt
Program: Veteran Connection and Suicide Prevention Program – SSG Fox SPGP
Reports To: Program Director
Location: Orange, Osceola, and Seminole Counties, Florida
Travel Requirements: Office setting, Regular local travel throughout the service area
Compensation: $22.50 a/hr

Number of Positions Available: 2

Your military service gave you perspective no classroom can teach. Are you ready to use it to help another Veteran feel seen, connected, and hopeful? The Transition House, Inc. is seeking a Veteran Peer Support Specialist for our community-based Veteran Connection and Suicide Prevention Program.

This is a Veteran-to-Veteran, non-clinical role centered on trust, hope, practical support, and authentic human connection. You will engage Veterans who may be facing suicide risk, isolation, homelessness, justice involvement, behavioral-health or substance-use challenges, financial instability, or disconnection from traditional service systems.

This position requires lived experience as a Veteran. If you know how powerful it can be when one Veteran says to another, ‘I understand,’ and you can pair that connection with boundaries, follow-through, and sound judgment, we would like to meet you.

At The Transition House, we believe strong teams create strong outcomes. Our work is centered on accountability, rehabilitation, and creating opportunities for people working toward stability and a stronger future.

Here, you will have the opportunity to:

• 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.

Build Trust Through Peer Connection

• 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.

Connect Veterans to Support

• 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.

Support Participant Safety

• 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…