Health Coach

Our Client, a Health Insurance company, is looking for a Health Coach for their Remote location.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting health promotion and wellness programs aimed at encouraging members to adopt healthy lifestyles by actively participating in wellness activities.
• Position will provide assessment, health education and behavior change counseling using a collaborative approach to facilitate change.
• Essential Duties And Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
• Assist in the identification and development of member health education needs through health assessment activities that may include online health risk appraisal, telephonic outreach, etc.
• Provide telephonic outreach and counseling on member compliance with nationally accepted health prevention guidelines and general health and wellness strategies.
• Perform research and communicate on relevant topics in health promotion and disease prevention.
• Facilitate collaboration between health education resources, the community and the company.
• Comply with applicable regulatory and licensing requirements such as NCQA, CMS, URAC, etc.
• Monitor, evaluate and report programs' effectiveness (e.g. outcomes).
• Prepare presentation/display materials and conduct targeted education/wellness programs targeting specific health strategies for designated populations.
• Serve as liaison between internal and external stakeholders to champion and develop programs aimed at prevention, wellness and disease management.

Requirements:

• Relevant combination of education and experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Bachelor's degree in health education, Health Promotion, Nutrition, Nursing, Exercise Physiology or Social Work required.
• Master's degree in related discipline is preferred.
• Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) certification, Licensed Registered Nurse (RN), American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) certification.
• Medical licenses require current unrestricted state of Michigan licensure.
• Continuous learning, as defined by the Company's learning philosophy, is required.
• Certification or progress toward certification is highly preferred and encouraged.
• Two (2) years of experience in a health promotion/education setting, counseling on health topics such as nutrition, exercise, cholesterol, hypertension, stress, alcohol and smoking.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work at a high energy level in a team environment with minimum supervision.
• Ability to be flexible and to manage multiple tasks with a strong customer focus.
• Clinical knowledge of disease prevention and wellness strategies.
• Good working knowledge of current industry standard PC software applications (e.g. Microsoft Office Suite) and proven administrative abilities.
• Working knowledge and understanding of health behavior change theories, counseling, interviewing techniques, strategies and application required.
• Ability to plan, implement and evaluate employee disease prevention and health promotion programs.
• Knowledge of NCQA, CMS, URAC, HEDIS standards as applicable to designated department assignment.
• Other related skills and/or abilities may be required to perform this job based on designated
• Departmental assignment.
• APPENDIX
• Diabetes Management Program

Why Should You Apply?

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities