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(Peer Support Specialist – Former Collegiate or Professional Athlete)

Role Purpose
The Athlete Mental Health Specialist provides confidential, non-clinical peer support to athletes by leveraging lived experience. This role helps normalize mental health conversations, reduce isolation, and support athletes through transitions, stressors, and identity challenges unique to athletes; with the option to add clinical care as needed.

This is not therapy. It is structured, trained peer support grounded in shared experience, boundaries, and safety.

Core Responsibilities

• Provide 1:1 peer support sessions to athletes via the Onrise secure telehealth platform.
• Build rapport through shared experience while maintaining professional boundaries
• Support athletes navigating:
  • Performance pressure
  • Injury and recovery
  • Relationships
  • Identity loss or transition out of sport
  • Career transitions
  • Team dynamics and conflict
  • Burnout, anxiety, grief, or life stressors
• Help athletes feel seen, understood, and not alone
• Attend weekly peer consultation with licensed managers.
• Collaborate with Onrise care teams when referrals or transitions of care are needed
• Complete accurate, timely documentation per Onrise and compliance standards
• Maintain confidentiality and adhere to HIPAA-aligned privacy expectations
• Participate in 2 required trainings, peer consultation groups, and ongoing professional development

Required Qualifications

• Former competitive athlete (collegiate, professional, elite, or equivalent)
• College Degree (does not have to be in a relevant field)
• Demonstrated emotional maturity and ability to reflect on personal experiences without projecting
• Strong listening skills and comfort holding difficult conversations
• Reliability, professionalism, and comfort working within structured systems
• Willingness to follow protocols, boundaries, and supervision
• Time for 3 full day trainings, (held virtually)
• Minimum of 5 hours a week to be available to work with athletes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior peer support, mentoring, or advocacy experience
• Training or certification in mental health first aid, or crisis response (if not, we will train you)
• Experience working with diverse athlete populations
• Comfort with technology and telehealth platforms (use of a personal laptop is required to be an AMHS)

Key Competencies

• Empathy without over-identification
• Boundary setting
• Self-awareness and regulation
• Cultural humility
• Clear communication
• Trust-building

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