Switching jobs and health insurance

I’m 22M in the United States. Right now I work a boring office job but I’m grateful to have health insurance through my employer for the first time, and I have my “domestic partner” which is my girlfriend under my insurance plan so we both have access to medical care and prescriptions through my employer, which I feel is very important and kinda mandatory for me, and I want to make sure I keep my girlfriend insured as well.

At my current job I applied after the open enrollment period ended, as a qualifying life event due to me losing Medicaid insurance I had under my parents whom I no longer live with or speak to regularly.

But I want to get a new job that pays more than I make now, something within my means as a high school graduate without any college education.

But my question I need answered: if I get hired at a new job that includes benefits, and considering it’s already January and the open enrollment period is most likely ended: Can I qualify to apply for health insurance outside the open enrollment period at my new job and enroll my girlfriend again at my new job? Since I technically did lose my job based coverage by resigning and therefore would start off uninsured at my new job. I would rather use employer insurance to have medical, dental, and vision, instead of federal healthcare.gov insurance if I can

I wouldn’t want to wait months to nearly a year for open enrollment at a new job to get insurance after resigning from my first job. That’s really the only thing holding me back from mass applying for a new job because I’m afraid to have a long term gap of no health insurance and I have some problems that need medical care. And I wanna be able to cover my girlfriend under my plan too

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