Specialty Care Navigator, Trauma

Spring Health; New York (NY); Remote; USD 46,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Spring Health is seeking an independently licensed mental health professional to join the Trauma Care team in a fully remote role. You’ll perform initial assessments, coordinate care, and refer members for PTSD and complex trauma within our Trauma program.

Requirements include LCSW, LMFT, or LPC, and a minimum of 2 years’ clinical experience with PTSD. The role emphasizes high-touch member support and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams across systems.

Qualifications

• Required mental health license: LCSW, LMFT, LPC.
• 2+ years of clinical care experience with PTSD and Complex Trauma.
• Experience with motivational interviewing, diagnostic assessment, and triage.
• Knowledge of phased-based trauma treatment models and EBPs for PTSD.

Responsibilities

• Telephonic screening, brief intervention, and referral to a trauma specialty provider.
• Apply active listening and psychoeducation to support member goals.
• Use Judith Herman’s trauma model to provide stabilization and engagement support.
• Identify level of care, facilitate referrals, and coordinate with Spring Health providers.
• Provide consultation on mental health and family issues as appropriate.
• Offer in-the-moment support and safety planning when needed.
• Communicate with members and providers through email and maintain records in an EHR.
• Collaborate with care support, provider operations, and benefits/billing for a smooth experience.
• Assist other specialty care teams as needed and participate in meetings and trainings.

Skills

Active listening

Motivational interviewing

Psychoeducation

Written communication

Verbal communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

LCSW/LMFT/LPC license

Tools

EHR systems

Job description

Our mission: eliminating every barrier to mental health.

Spring Health is a global mental health company on a mission to eliminate every barrier to mental health. We're building a world where getting support is simple, personal, and built around the person, so care can continue through every job, move, health plan, and life stage.

Our AI-native platform helps us deliver personalized support across self-guided tools, coaching, therapy, medication management, and specialty care. With outcomes independently validated by JAMA Network Open and the Validation Institute, Spring Health reaches more than 170 million people worldwide through leading employers, health plans, and partners.

As an AI-native company, we believe technology should expand the reach, quality, and humanity of care. Every Spring Health team member is expected to use AI tools thoughtfully, apply human judgment to AI outputs, and keep building AI fluency in ways that support their role and our mission.

We're currently looking for an independently licensed mental health professional to join the Care Navigation team (LCSW, LMFT, LPC required) to support members seeking support with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex trauma. Reporting to the Lead Specialty Care Navigator of the Trauma team, the Trauma Clinical Care Navigator will provide initial assessment, support, referral, and ongoing care coordination for members within Spring Health’s innovative Trauma program.

This is a full time position that is fully remote. The shift for this position is Monday-Friday, 8:30a-5p or 9a-5:30p MT or PT.

What you’ll do:

• Telephonic screening, brief intervention, and referral of members to a trauma specialty treatment provider.
• Apply active listening, psychoeducation, and motivational interviewing skills to understand each member’s needs and provide support as they set goals.
• Utilize Judith Herman’s phase based trauma treatment model to provide stabilization support to members in their process of engaging in care.
• Utilize motivational interviewing to assist members in engaging in care.
• Identify an appropriate level of care, facilitate referral, and coordinate care with a Spring Health provider.
• Provide consultation regarding mental health concerns and family/relationship issues, as appropriate to member needs.
• As necessary, provide in-the-moment support and safety planning for members with safety, risks or crisis.
• Utilize written communication skills to interact with members and providers through email.
• Document information, maintain accurate records, perform follow-ups, and track progress within several systems, including an EHR within required timeframes.
• Identify and problem-solve issues that serve as a barrier or disruption to care.
• Interact with multi-disciplinary teams such as care support, provider operations, and benefits/billing to ensure a smooth member experience.
• Assisting other specialty care teams (SUD, Mood and Anxiety, and Eating Disorders), as needed.
• Participate in staff meetings, case consultations, and trainings.
• Follow Spring Health policies and maintain all confidentiality, compliance, and ethical standards.

What success looks like:

• Maintain high member satisfaction, as measured by survey responses
• Retain members throughout their course of care by maintaining consistent outreach and contact, as appropriate
• Triage and enroll members into appropriate LOC, based on presenting problems and goals
• Outreach members via phone and email to schedule triages

What you’ll bring:

• Required mental health license: LCSW, LMFT, LPC
• Minimum of 2+ years of clinical care experience working with PTSD and Complex Trauma.
• Experience with motivational interviewing, diagnostic assessment, and triage.
• Knowledge of phased-based trauma treatment model and EBPs for PTSD (e.g. Prolonged Exposure, Cognitive Processing Therapy, EMDR, ART, etc).
• Excellent listening, written and verbal communication skills.
• Acknowledge and embrace diversity and inclusion.
• Experience working with diverse populations.
• Motivated to go above and beyond for members to provide a high-touch experience.
• Tech-savvy: must be comfortable using various computer platforms and learning new systems, and efficient in tech-related tasks.
• Able to multi-task and context switch!

Bonus qualifications

• Trauma specific licensure or certifications
• Bilingual

The target base salary range for this position is $33.33 - $42.31 Hourly, and is part of a competitive total rewards package and benefits.

Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations.

We review all employee pay and compensation programs annually using Radford Global Compensation Database at minimum to ensure competitive and fair pay.

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Spring Health is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable legal requirements. Spring Health is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.