Mental Health Navigator

Company: Lee Health
Location: Fort Myers
Posted on: February 15, 2020

Job Description:

Are you a caring, compassionate, customer service focused individual who enjoys helping people? If so, read on!! When you join Lee Health, you'll enjoy getting involved to continuously improve your skills. Here, our employees feel welcomed, valued and respected. Having a career with Lee Health offers valuable growth opportunities, market competitive compensation, and exceptional benefits that address your holistic health. Lee Health attracts the brightest stars, so if selected, we will contact you to discuss next steps. The Mental Health navigator is an experienced family member of an individual with serious emotional disturbance who provides peer mentoring and support. Patient navigators build working relationships, solve problems, and support patients while they learn to self-navigate the system of care. Navigators reduce barriers that keep patients from getting timely treatment by identifying patient needs and assist them in accessing sources of emotional, financial, administrative, or cultural support. The Mental Health Navigator will help families gain the skills, tools, and supports needed to be independent and confident. Educational Requirements Degree/Diploma ObtainedProgram of StudyRequired/ Preferredand/orBachelor'sRequired Additional Requirements Experience Requirements Minimum Years RequiredArea of ExperienceRequired/ Preferredand/or10 YearRequired Additional Requirements Must have at least 10 years lived experience of being a relative (i.e. parent, care giver, sibling, or other immediate family member) of adult or child with serious emotional disturbance. State of Florida Licensure Requirements LicensesRequired/ Preferredand/orValid FL Drivers LicenseRequired Certifications/Registration Requirements Certificates/RegistrationsRequired/ Preferredand/or Additional Requirements Certified Parent Support Provider through The Federation for Children's Mental Health preferred Possesses the ability to articulate and model lessons learned from lived experience required

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