Street Medicine Peer Support

Are you ready to use your unique life experience to connect with people, build deep trust, and save lives?

The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department is looking for a passionate Street Medicine Peer Support Worker (Health Promotion Technician) to meet people exactly where they are. In this role, you will work as a Health Promotion Technician with our Street Medicine Program
. Thisis a full-time, 1.0 FTE project position within our Strengthening Families Division.
This position is currently funded through 9/29/2027.

Based on our internal compensation review process, the starting hourly wage for this position is $29.23 –$31.30. We make decisions on higher starting salaries based on experience, education, and qualifications.

The full salary range for this position is $29.23- $39.55 per hour. This position also includes a comprehensive benefits package that includes insurance (health, dental, vision, life), retirement plan options, generous leave accruals, annual cost of living salary increases, employee programs, and more. Visit our benefits webpage to learn more.

The Street Medicine Peer Support Worker will play a key role in providing essential services to individuals experiencing homelessness in Tacoma. This position involves working directly with the unsheltered community, driving and operating outreach vehicles (cargo van and RV), packing, organizing, and distributing supplies, connecting patients to resources. The Street Medicine Peer Support Worker will also help build and maintain community partnerships and ensure a positive, compassionate, and trauma-informed approach to outreach.

This position requires flexibility, adaptability, and the ability to work in all weather conditions while navigating the complexities of homelessness.

This technical classification is responsible for supporting community health promotion and program objectives. Work involves coordinating services with clients, customers, and community partners, and providing education and training. This role also provides administrative and on-the-ground support for Health Department programs.

This position is a technical classification under the direction of a lead, supervisor, or program manager, whose work supports the Health Promotion Coordinator (HPC) series. An employee assigned to this classification will work semi-independently with close supervision. Work requires strict adherence to well-defined directives, instructions, and procedures.

• Health Promotion Technician
• Health Promotion Coordinator I
• Health Promotion Coordinator II
• Health Promotion Coordinator III

Options to continue your career at the Health Department depend on your interest, education, and training. Possibilities beyond include:

• Office Administrator
• Communications Specialist I, II
• Executive Assistant II
• Technical Assistant

• Provides administrative and on-the-ground support for community-based outreach and education activities.
• Collects, enters, tracks, and reports program activity data for grants and program delivery measurables.
• Assist with scheduling, coordination, and set-up of community-based outreach, events, and education activities. Provides logistics support for community events, including but not limited to advertisement, invitations, setting up virtual or in-person meeting spaces, event set up, and note taking.
• Attends community events and assists HPC’s in distributing informational materials.

The items in this section are the key duties and responsibilities for this job and do not represent an exhaustive list. Our organization is dynamic, and duties may change based on business needs. Any new duties will remain within the scope of the job.

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