Health Coach

Salinas Valley Radiologists, Inc.; Salinas (CA); On-site; USD 48,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Salinas Valley Health Clinics is seeking a Health Coach to join the SVH Lifestyle and Metabolic Program in Salinas, CA. This full-time professional role focuses on health promotion and disease management across diverse populations.

The Health Coach will work with a multidisciplinary team to identify opportunities for lifestyle modification, develop goals, and support sustainable behavior change, including biometric screenings and wellness activities.

Qualifications

• Two+ years experience as a health coach or health promotion/disease management services preferred
• Knowledge of managed care concepts and behavior change tools
• Strong teamwork and communication skills
• Ability to thrive in evolving environments
• Ability to tailor information to health literacy levels
• Strong verbal and written communication and motivational interviewing skills
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills
• Proficiency with Windows-based database applications
• Ability to manage a large caseload independently
• Ability to develop health enhancement strategies with patients
• Problem solving and customer service skills
• Ability to build rapport with patients, providers, and stakeholders
• Experience developing wellness and engagement activities and health education materials

Responsibilities

• Provide patient-centered health coaching across the continuum of care to support self-management
• Act as liaison between patient, support network, physicians, and providers using a multidisciplinary approach
• Use behavior change/motivational interviewing to assess readiness and set goals
• Collaborate with CHI team members, physicians, hospital staff, and community partners
• Use technology to identify needs of at-risk populations and document progress in EMR systems
• Support CHI program development, outreach, and health education content
• Advocate for patients and address barriers to care
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

Health coaching

Communication skills

Teamwork

Motivational interviewing

Time management

Self-management support

Education

Health coaching certification preferred

Tools

Windows-based databases

Job description

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Health Coach

Full Time Professional Salinas, CA, US

30+ days ago Requisition ID: 2574

Salary Range: $35.00 To $39.00 Hourly

SVH Lifestyle and Metabolic Program

SUMMARY

The Health Coach is responsible for improving health outcomes by providing health promotion, disease management, and health education services to diverse populations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Includes but not limited to the following:

• The Health Coach will be part of a multi-disciplinary team responsible for providing disease prevention/management and care coordination services to health plan members, patients, and community members. Working in partnership with a growing number of local organizations, the Health Coach assists with identifying lifestyle modification opportunities, establishing goals and action plans, and conducting follow-up to support sustainable behavior change. Additionally, this position will support a variety of chronic condition management and wellness services including, but not limited to:
• Providing patient-centered health coaching activities across the continuum of care in order to facilitate and promote high quality, cost effective outcomes focused on self-management decision support.
• Acting as the liaison between the patient, the patient’s support network, treating physician(s), and ancillary providers utilizing a multi-disciplinary approach to assess, identify, plan, set goals, and measure optimal clinical outcomes.
• Employing behavior change/motivational interviewing skills to assess readiness, encouraging long and short-term goal setting, engaging patients following standard policies and procedures, and adhering to clinical guidelines and national evidenced-based criteria.
• Working collaboratively with all CHI team members and stakeholders including but not limited to: physicians and their office staff, hospital staff, local employers, health agencies, and partnering health systems.
• Using technology tools to identify and target the needs of at-risk populations and documenting patient progress in electronic medical record systems.
• Supporting the development, implementation and evaluation of CHI programs and outreach activities to improve optimal health outcomes. May include onsite program promotion, biometric screenings, managing wellness challenges, developing health education content, providing health education lectures, and assisting with targeted outreach campaigns to address population health needs.
• Acting as a patient advocate responding to and working to resolve patient concerns or barriers.
• Other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• At least two years experience as a health coach or providing impactful health promotion/disease management services preferred, clinical setting preferred
• Knowledge of managed care concepts, health promotion strategies, transtheoretical model and other behavior change tools
• Strong commitment to teamwork with ability to contribute expertise and follow leadership directives
• Ability to thrive in a continually evolving environment
• Ability to tailor information at the appropriate level of health literacy
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to apply motivational interviewing techniques
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills
• Strong proficiency in Windows-based database applications
• Ability to work independently and manage a large caseload with minimal supervision
• Ability to work with patients to develop health enhancement strategies to improve patient outcomes
• Exceptional problem solving and customer service skills
• Ability to effectively establish rapport with patients, providers, and stakeholders in person and via telephone
• Experience with developing and implementing wellness and engagement activities, including evidence-based health education materials

REQUIRED

PREFERRED:

• ACSM, CHES, Wellcoaches or related certification preferred

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:

Proof of identity and legal authority to work in the U.S. is a condition of employment. Cypress Healthcare Partners/Salinas Valley Health Clinics will not sponsor applicants for work visas.