Lifestyle Medicine Health Coach Nutritionist - Napa (Full Time, Day)

Job Description

Northbay Integrative Primary Care believes that lasting health is created through sustainable lifestyle change, meaningful patient partnerships, and whole-person care. The Lifestyle Medicine Health Coach/Nutritionist serves as a trusted guide who empowers individuals to build healthier habits that improve quality of life, reduce chronic disease risk, and support long-term well-being. Success in this role is measured not only by knowledge shared, but by patients' ability to create lasting, meaningful changes that enhance their health and vitality.

At Northbay Health, the Lifestyle Medicine Health Coach Nutritionist is a key member of the Northbay Integrative Primary Care team, partnering with physicians and interdisciplinary providers to empower patients in achieving sustainable health through evidence-based lifestyle change. This role supports individuals in preventing, reversing, and managing chronic disease by guiding lasting behavior change using the principles of Lifestyle Medicine, nutrition science, and health coaching.

Unlike traditional medical nutrition therapy focused on acute illness, this position emphasizes whole-person wellness by addressing nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress resilience, emotional well-being, social connection, and other lifestyle factors that influence long-term health outcomes. Through motivational interviewing, behavior change science, and personalized coaching, the Health Coach/Nutritionist helps patients identify barriers, build self-efficacy, and develop realistic, individualized action plans that promote lifelong healthy habits.

Working collaboratively within an integrative care model, this role supports patients through individual coaching, shared medical appointments, group education, culinary medicine programming, and coordination with providers including physicians, acupuncturists, behavioral health specialists, and movement professionals. The Health Coach/Nutritionist fosters an encouraging, patient-centered environment that inspires meaningful and sustainable lifestyle transformation.

Primary Job Duties

1. Provides individualized lifestyle medicine coaching focused on sustainable behavior change, healthy nutrition, physical activity, sleep optimization, stress management, weight management, and chronic disease prevention.
2. Partners with patients to establish meaningful health goals and develop personalized action plans that reflect their values, readiness for change, and unique life circumstances.
3. Utilizes evidence-based coaching techniques including motivational interviewing, positive psychology, and behavior change science to support long-term success.
4. Educates patients using practical, food-first nutrition principles that emphasize whole foods, culinary medicine, and sustainable eating patterns rather than restrictive diets.
5. Identifies barriers to behavior change and collaborates with patients to develop realistic strategies that improve adherence and self-management.
6. Documents patient encounters, progress toward goals, coaching interventions, and care plans accurately and timely within the electronic medical record.
7. Collaborates closely with physicians and the interdisciplinary care team to coordinate individualized patient care plans and reinforce lifestyle interventions.
8. Facilitates individual visits, group medical visits, workshops, and educational classes supporting lifestyle medicine principles.
9. Assists in developing educational materials, wellness resources, and patient engagement tools that reflect current evidence and Northbay Health branding standards.
10. Supports culinary medicine, wellness, and community outreach initiatives that promote healthy living and disease prevention.
11. Participates in quality improvement initiatives, program development, and outcome measurement to continually enhance patient experience and clinical effectiveness.
12. Maintains current knowledge of emerging research in lifestyle medicine, nutrition science, health coaching, and chronic disease prevention.
13. Demonstrates exceptional communication skills while building trusting, compassionate relationships with patients, families, providers, and colleagues.
14. Serves as an advocate for whole-person, patient-centered care that empowers individuals to become active participants in their health journey.
15. Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in nutrition, Health Promotion, Public Health, Exercise Science, Health Education, or a related health field. Master's degree in nutrition, Public Health, Health Coaching, or related discipline preferred.

Licensure/Certification: Registered Dietitian by the Commission on Dietetic Registration required. Certified Lifestyle Medicine Professional (DipACLM, ACLM certification, or equivalent). National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC).

Experience: Minimum of two years of experience in health coaching, wellness, nutrition counseling, lifestyle medicine, chronic disease management, or preventive health. Experience utilizing motivational interviewing and behavior change methodologies. Excellent interpersonal, communication, and patient engagement skills. Experience documenting within an electronic medical record. Experience in integrative medicine, functional medicine, obesity medicine, or primary care preferred. Experience facilitating group education, shared medical appointments, or wellness programs preferred. Familiarity with culinary medicine programming preferred.

Skills: Demonstrated knowledge of evidence-based nutrition principles and lifestyle interventions. Core competencies:

• Lifestyle Medicine principles
• Health and Wellness Coaching
• Motivational Interviewing
• Behavior Change Science
• Nutrition Counseling
• Culinary Medicine
• Patient-Centered Care
• Goal Setting and Accountability
• Cultural Humility
• Trauma-Informed Care
• Collaborative Teamwork
• Wellness Education

Standards of Performance: Demonstrate performance by adhering to established policies and procedures and exhibiting the defined characteristics associated with attendance and punctuality.

Physical Effort: Attendance is an essential function of the job. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may participate in the following activities: Teaching may require standing and some transport of AV or related equipment, teaching materials, and handouts to location.

Hours of Work: Variable prescheduled according to business need.