Wellness Health Coach (Jackson Health System)

Company: Sentara Health
Location: Miami
Posted on: March 5, 2025

Job Description:

City/State
Doral, FL

Overview

Work Shift
First (Days) (United States of America)

AvMed, a division of Sentara Health Plans in the Florida market, is hiring a Wellness Health Coach in Miami, Florida. This is an onsite role and requires traveling to the following sites: Downtown Miami (Main location), North Miami and Palmetto Bay area.

Scope of position:The Wellness Health Coach works under the direction of the Manager, Wellness and Health Promotion to engage members in healthy behaviors by providing one on one and group education support and wellness engagement. This position serves as an onsite wellness team liaison to ensure delivery of wellness department goals and to facilitate wellness engagement activities such as challenges, educational series, risk targeted programs, and other offerings that are part of the client's specific wellness program. The Wellness Health Coach's focus is on providing education and support related to modifiable lifestyle risks, facilitating behavior change, developing personalized wellness plan for coached members, and providing support for AvMed's overall wellness program offerings and goals.

Essential Job Functions:

• Provides onsite one on one and telephonic coaching to members with a goal of health improvement through assessment and barrier identification, self-management education, appropriate referral wellness planning.
• Provides education to members on how to best access online self-management tools, the Wellness Program, and services available through the wellness program.
• Supports the coordination and delivery of worksite Health Events, such as biometric screenings, onsite flu shots and any other wellness sponsored actives.
• Coaches' members in understanding the Personal Health Assessment (PHA), Scorecard, Action Plan and results of biometric screening data; refer associates to follow-up for physician clinical evaluation as appropriate. Documents and reports on interactions, interventions and outcomes as directed.
• Provides education and behavior change tools on the following health areas: Nutrition, Physical Activity, Wellness Education and Referral, Disease Prevention / Health Risk Management, Women's Health Issues, Children's Health Issues, Men's Health Issues, Sleep, Stress Management, Weight Management, High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol, Maternity / New Mothers, Smoking/Tobacco Cessation, Benefit Navigation, and other Wellness topics as necessary.
• Delivers health education seminars in person and by webinar as assigned and in response to client's aggregate reports, including, but not limited to associate PHAs, screenings and high-cost claims analysis for education and engagement in wellness resources; Conducts internal and external educational presentations.
• Collaborates with the Manager, Wellness and Health Promotion, Client Human Resource Department, and other Wellness team members, if applicable, to develop engagement strategies that support the overall health and wellness of members. Assesses client needs at various locations and makes recommendations to support employee wellness.
• Participates and leads client specific meetings as requested such as Health Coach and Wellness Champion calls for the sharing of best practices.
• Supports the Wellness Engagement Specialist with designing measurable field interventions to support ROI and VOI analyses.
• Performs additional duties and responsibilities as assigned by management
  
  Minimum Requirements:
  
  • Bachelor's degree in health and/or wellness related field is required
  • 0-2 years of experience in health coaching, motivational interviewing and/or health promotion
  • Experience in nutrition is highly desired
  • Must have a valid Florida Driver's license or state of Florida issued ID
  • Certification as a health coach highly desired
  • Tobacco Cessation certification highly desired
  • An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered
    
    Preferred Requirements:
    
    • Effective motivational interviewing skills
    • Bilingual English/Creole and or English/ Spanish
    • Ability to effectively manage multiple projects without additional resources or support
    • Ability to develop presentations and present to large groups and stakeholders
    • Ability to think creatively
    • Ability to work independently
    • Excellent communication skills - oral and written
    • Ability to work effectively and efficiently with others
    • Ability to work in multiple fast-paced environments
      
      Our Benefits:
      
      As the third-largest employer in Virginia, Sentara Health was named by Forbes Magazine as one of America's best large employers. We offer a variety of amenities to our employees, including, but not limited to:
      
      • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
      • Paid Annual Leave, Sick Leave
      • Flexible Spending Accounts
      • Retirement funds with matching contribution
      • Supplemental insurance policies, including legal, Life Insurance and AD&D among others
      • Work Perks program including discounted movie and theme park tickets among other great deals
      • Opportunities for further advancement within our organization
        
        Sentara employees strive to make our communities healthier places to live. We're setting the standard for medical excellence within a vibrant, creative, and highly productive workplace. For information about our employee benefits, please visit: Benefits - Sentara (sentaracareers.com)
        
        Join our team! We are committed to quality healthcare, improving health every day, and provide the opportunity for training, development, and growth!
        
        Note: Sentara Healthcare offers employees comprehensive health care and retirement benefits designed with you and your family's well-being in mind. Our benefits packages are designed to change with you by meeting your needs now and anticipating what comes next. You have a variety of options for medical, dental and vision insurance, life insurance, disability, and voluntary benefits as well as Paid Time Off in the form of sick time, vacation time and paid parental leave. Team Members have the opportunity to earn an annual flat amount Bonus payment if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.
        
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        Job Summary
        
        Responsible for planning, coordinating and implementing a variety of wellness activities for employer groups, at-risk populations, and the community at large to evaluate the health status, maintain outcomes quality and meet specific identified needs which promote wellness and improve health. Many of the tasks associated with the position involve data input, data management and data reporting. This is support position for the Community Health and Prevention team.
        
        Experience - 5 years required in lieu of bachelors degree.
        
        Qualifications:
        
        ALD - Associate's Level Degree (Required), BLD - Bachelor's Level Degree
        
        Project Management
        
        Skills
        
        Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel
        
        Sentara Healthcare prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.
        
        Per Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA), some clinical environments require proof of education; these regulations are posted at ecfr.gov for further information. In an effort to expedite this verification requirement, we encourage you to upload your diploma or transcript at time of application.
        
        In support of our mission "to improve health every day," this is a tobacco-free environment. Associated topics: clinical, disease, food, food scientist, histology, physiology, therapeutic, therapy, toxicologist, virus

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