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Health & Wellness Coach

Fort Pierce, FL (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1901+South+25th+Street+Fort+Pierce+FL+USA+34947)

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Job Type

Full-time

Description

Valor Healthcare is looking for a passionate Health & Wellness Coach to join our team at the Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) in Fort Pierce. In exchange for your dedication and experience, we are proud to offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits, three weeks of PTO to start and a weekday schedule.

Our mission is simple: to provide quality healthcare to America's veterans through our healing focus, indebted hearts, and tireless resolve. Valor operates more than 50 VA CBOCs in the United States as a contractor for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. We provide a full range of medical services to veterans through the operations of CBOCs, tailored to meet the specific needs of local VA medical centers. Our comprehensive set of services includes primary care, diagnostics, laboratory, telehealth, behavioral health, and more.

As a Health & Wellness Coach, you will provide prescribed medical treatment and personal care services to patients with diseases and injuries seeking treatment in the clinic, as directed by physician or mid-level provider. ?You will collaborate with the core PACT Team (Primary Care Provider, RN and Medical Assistant) and expanded PACT Team including family/caregiver, VA, and community-based services involved in developing the patient care plan.?

Core Responsibilities

+ Support clients in mobilizing internal strengths and external resources and develops self-management strategies for making sustainable, healthy lifestyles behavior changes and more effectively managing chronic disease.

+ Provide expert guidance and may offer resources from nationally recognized and approved authorities to contribute to patients’ overall wellness.

+ Coaches and assist patients by using insight, personal strengths and resources, goal setting, action steps and accountability toward healthy lifestyle change.

+ Assist patients with weight management, smoking cessation, addressing problematic areas in the eight components of proactive health and wellbeing.

+ Provides health coaching for patients to reduce or eliminate high-risk behaviors while increasing healthy ones.

+ Provides care through telephone clinics or secure messaging between face-to-face appointments.

+ Coordinates care with the patients’ treatment providers, both primary and specialty care, to ensure identified goals are consistent with best practices for treatment and management of chronic illness.

+ Actively guides patients in the exploration of core elements of personal health planning through individual and group-based programs.

+ Meets with external stakeholders to provide information about the Whole Health Group and individual programs and access to patients.

Requirements

+ Must hold National Board Health Wellness Coach (NBHWC) certification or be eligible to sit for the exam by having the following:

+ Complete an NBHWC approved training program;

+ Complete 50 health and wellness coaching sessions; and

+ Have an associate degree or higher or 4,000 hours work experience (any field).

+ Ability to emphasis and use judgement on health enhancements/strengths, rather than disorders/weaknesses.

+ Adaptive learner and having the willingness to acquire knowledge on new technologies to solve problems.

+ Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.

+ Ability to work independently, self-directed, and solutions-oriented.

+ Possesses sound organizational and planning skills with a solid mindfulness.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.