Veteran Peer Support Specialist

Northwest Behavioral Health Clinic is seeking a Veteran Peer Support Specialist for 30 hours a week in the Williston area. 

***This position will close on the state website on 7/22/2026 at 11:59 pm.

Be part of the solution to the behavioral health crisis. As a team member for ND Department of Health & Human Services, you will ensure the most vulnerable have access to a high-quality healthcare system in which prevention works, treatment is effective, and people recover.

As a Veteran Peer Support Specialist, you will share personal and practical experience, knowledge, and first-hand insight to benefit service users. With this position, services are delivered by trained and certified individuals in mental health or substance use recovery that promote hope, self-determination, and skills to achieve long-term recovery in the community. This position may serve veterans and military families. Applicants with related lived or professional experience may receive additional screening points.

With the support of an interdisciplinary team, you will assist with completing and implementing service plans, provide outreach services and engagement opportunities, promote wellness and community involvement, and increase natural supports for service users. Peer Support Specialists will also assist with crisis response.

Peer Support Services are community-based. Work will be done primarily in the individual’s home and community.

To thrive in this position, you should have at least one year of personal recovery, have a strong desire to assist others achieve personal recovery, be knowledgeable about resources offered in your community, and prefer working with clients in their home and natural environments.

To be considered for the Veteran Peer Support Specialist position, you are required to have the following:

• A veteran as defined by N.D.C.C. 37-19.1, A DD214 must be submitted with resume and cover letter. 
• Self-identify as an individual who has personal lived military experience and is willing to publicly identify as an individual in recovery from a mental health disorder, brain injury, substance use disorder, or combination.
• At least eighteen years of age
• Have a high school diploma or general equivalency. Must be able to demonstrate the ability to read and write at a level proficient enough for training, documentation, and effective communication.

This position also requires:

• Valid driver’s license or ability to travel to meet clients at their location.
• Ability to successfully complete a defensive driving course within 6 months of hire.
• Successful completion of a division-approved Peer Support Training Program within 3 months of hire. 
• And must complete the ND-approved Veteran Peer Support curriculum (minimum 17 hours).
• The successful candidate will have to be eligible to be a NDMA enrolled provider.

Preferred: 

• Experience supporting veterans in behavioral health or recovery settings. 

Location

ND HHS utilizes a blended workplace model. This position provides essential client services face to face and therefore the person in this position needs to be able to travel to meet clients at their location.

About HHS

ND HHS strives to make North Dakota the healthiest state in the nation by reinforcing the foundations of wellbeing: physical, economic, and behavioral. The keys to success are the 2800 committed, team members who are guided by a simple but powerful belief: when we lead with light, we create systems and services rooted in hope, clarity, and possibility. Their work is supported with more than $6 billion in funding from nearly 400 different federal, state, and special sources.

To succeed in this role, you must lead with LIGHT - leading with hope, instilling purpose and meaning, galvanizing gratitude, honoring health, and talking, walking and teaching civility, kindness and love for all.