Peer Support Specialist

Job overview

Peer Support Specialist is an onsite, full-time role at the Crocker Care Campus in Skid Row, Downtown Los Angeles, CA. The stated annual salary is $47,394–$51,038. JWCH Institute’s campus provides a welcoming, low-barrier drop-in setting for people who use drugs and people experiencing homelessness. Using lived experience, the specialist supports recovery, wellness, and self-directed choices through peer connection, care navigation, and collaboration with clinical teams. The role contributes to person-centered care plans and connects participants with community resources and integrated services.

What you'll do

• Build trusting relationships with clients
• support personal goals and recovery
• share recovery and resilience experiences and model coping strategies
• provide individual and group support, education, and care navigation
• connect clients with community resources
• co-facilitate wellness groups
• participate in street medicine or outreach efforts
• collaborate on care plans
• document services
• attend team meetings and training
• maintain confidentiality and respond appropriately to crises.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

peer support specialist

full-time employment

day schedule

skid row los angeles ca

jwch institute

crocker care campus

behavioral health

harm reduction

substance use recovery

lived experience required

street medicine outreach

person-centered care

$47,394–$51,038 per year

medical dental vision

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Medical, dental, and vision
• employer-sponsored health premium allowance
• funded Health Savings Account
• paid time off and 13 paid holidays
• 401(k) Safe Harbor Profit Sharing
• mileage reimbursement
• disability and life insurance.

Why this role

Requires lived experience with recovery from mental illness or substance use disorder, personally or as a caregiver or family member. Certified Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist is preferred.

About the employer

JWCH Institute is hiring for this role. Industry: All Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care Services. Sector: 62.