Youth Support Navigator – Certified Youth Peer Support Specialist

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🕒 February 17

🌶️ New Mexico – Remote

🌶️ New Mexico – Remote

💵 $37.7k - $56.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💝 Customer Support

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Magellan Health

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1001 - 5000 employees

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🧬 Biotechnology

🧘 Wellness

💰 $101M Private Equity Round on 2004-01

Healthcare Insurance • Biotechnology • Wellness

Magellan Health is a leading healthcare management company that provides a range of services, including behavioral health, pharmacy management, and employee assistance programs. The company focuses on delivering high-quality care and support to individuals and families, particularly those in military and community settings. Magellan Health emphasizes personalized service and innovative solutions to improve health outcomes and enhance the overall patient experience.

📋 Description

• Work remote from home in the Las Cruces area with extensive community based travel. • Provides non-clinical, evidence-based peer support services. • Serves as a youth advocate, shares coping skills, and provides recovery information for youth members ages 14 - 21. • Perform a wide range of tasks designed to assist youth members in developing independence through individual recovery planning, wellness self-management, and strengthening resilience to improve personal health outcomes. • Role model competency in recovery, resiliency, and wellness practices. • Provide one-to-one peer support for youth with mental health or substance use needs. • Guide youth in developing wellness plans using an evidence-based framework. • Facilitate use of the 8 Dimensions of Wellness to set whole-health goals. • Support youth in building empowerment, self-advocacy, and problem-solving skills and maintaining progress toward recovery through community participation and role modeling wellness. • Maintain accurate, timely, and complete documentation to ensure records meet compliance, audit, and reporting requirements. • Participate in supervision, training, and ongoing professional development. • Initiate proactive outreach to youth to build engagement and facilitate successful enrollment into the peer support program. • Educate providers, internal staff, and youth on resiliency and recovery practices.

🎯 Requirements

• Self-identified person in recovery with lived experience of youth/young adult mental health or substance use services. • Completed training and certification as a Youth Peer Support Specialist. • Reliable vehicle and ability to travel in the community. • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and comfort using mobile apps and web-based platforms. • Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills. • Ability to document accurately and maintain timely records. • Knowledge of local mental health, substance use and community systems, recovery and resiliency principles, wraparound, and tools such as wellness planning and the 8 dimensions of wellness. • Experience representing member strengths and needs in clinical or interdisciplinary settings. • Ability to analyze complex situations and make independent decisions. • Proven ability to work both independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• short-term incentives • comprehensive benefits package • health insurance • life insurance • voluntary benefits • wellness programs