Health Coach Job Description
Health coach
provides group, telephonic, and one-to-one education regarding pre-disease states, lifestyle management for nutrition, exercise, weight management, and stress management.
Health Coach Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective health coach job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included health coach job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Competently employs motivational strategies for encouraging individuals to explore motivation for change and enhance readiness
Receives visitors and patient prospects referred to program in a prompt and courteous manner, reviews program objectives, enrollment process, payments, and collects patient agreement forms
Communicates orally and in writing with patients, physician and staff as indicated
Provides health and wellness education utilizing a variety of strategies including group presentations, support-group facilitation, creative use of media, newsletter contributions
Prioritizes and organizes daily workflow other assignments/projects to meet commitments and deadlines
Coordinates specific health coaching as directed by nurse case manager to address objectives and goals as identified during assessment
Coordinates with the nurse case manager to provide feedback on member goal attainment and clinical issues
Monitors and evaluates the interventions and modifies
Provides onsite health coaching outreach via telephone and secure messaging
Heart disease
Health Coach Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Health Coach
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPR, CHES, ACSM, LCSW, MCHES, NBHWC, CDE, BLS, FMS, EMT
Education for Health Coach
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the health coach job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Education, Health, Counseling, Nursing, Public Health, Social Work, Psychology, Nutrition, Continuing Education, Health Science
Skills for Health Coach
Desired skills for health coach include:
Wellness programming and individual engagement strategies
Diabetes
CHF and IHD
Chronic diseases
Especially COPD/asthma
Nutrition and weight management
Disease prevention and basic understanding of exercise principles
Motivational strategies
Materials development
Training and consultation
Desired experience for health coach includes:
Provide tailored one-on-one health coaching to residents around their stated health/life goals
Through the use of clinical tools and information/data review, conducts comprehensive assessments of member's needs and determines approach to case resolution and/or meeting needs by evaluating member's benefit plan and available internal and external programs/services
Ideal applicant will be bilingual in English and Spanish with strong bicultural sensitivity
Depression/anxiety
Hyperlipidemia
Back/neck pain
Health Coach Examples
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Health Coach Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of health coach. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for health coach
- Healthy but unfit
- Healthy and fit
- Serve as a link to members and the various services offered
- Educate employees and customers about nutrition, all products, and optimal health/healthy living with the intention of supporting store sales
- Conduct Health Hotline employee trainings
- Pull reports for employee LMS “Take-15” education
- Create and maintain an employee “Glad You Asked” question center
- Prepare for and present in-store customer nutrition education classes
- Prepare for and conduct outreach presentations
- Conduct Sit-Down/In-Store Nutritional Health Coaching Sessions
Qualifications for health coach
- NHCs are required to have a degree/certification in nutrition or a related field (e.g., dietetics,Bachelors of Science or Masters in biology, biochemistry, naturopathy) from a college or university accredited by a regional and/or national accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education as reliable, or from a college or university accredited by the Canadian government
- Proof of education must be submitted at time of application
- Nutritional Health Coaches must have a reliable vehicle that can be used to travel in their metro area to participate in community outreach events and community relationship building initiatives
- Lead the development and implementation of the store’s Nutrient to Know About strategies
- Take an active leadership role in the planning and execution of store sales promotions, NaturalGrocer’s Employee Wellness Challenges, and other initiatives coordinated by the Home Office
- Maintain and oversee the Political Campaign Center
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of health coach. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for health coach
- Assist the Vitamin Manager with ordering books by maintaining the book department inventory,appearance, and reference books
- Assist with creating product displays (for events, featured books, and company sales focuses)
- Work with the grocery and vitamin managers to make sure the items that you recommend are consistently stocked
- Conduct Ambassador Table responsibilities
- Coach staff on using health supportive statements when engaging with customers
- Keep staff informed on talking points related to upcoming events, classes, promotions, and company initiatives
- Conduct new employee NHC Meet & Greets
- Customer service is the primary responsibility of every employee
- Serve as Event Ambassador as assigned by store manager
- Front End work
Qualifications for health coach
- Be prepared to help with bagging assistance, assisting customers to their car, and cart checks when needed
- NHCs should use this opportunity to be a role model to other employees on how to-effectively promote in-store events and their NHC services
- Nutrition Manager/Nutritional Health Coach Weekly Overview
- For the NHC to successfully complete all responsibilities outlined in the job description the
- Seek outreach opportunities and develop community relationships
- Bachelor’s Degree in Health Studies, required
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a health coach. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for health coach
- Provides coaching in behavioral health programs such as depression, anxiety, substance use, and ADHD
- Sites covered will span from Baltimore, MD up to Wilmington, DE and just north of Philadephia, PA
- Conducts appropriate surveys/assessments to proactively identify needs
- Monitors the quality of service, seeking member/family input
- Identifies on-line, telephonic and community based resources that can assist the member in achieving and maintaining their personal health goals
- Work collaboratively with other members of the Health Care team
- Function as a primary health coach for members with medical needs with the depth of engagement ranging from coaching interventions to intensive case management interventions
- Conduct clinical assessments through a variety of approaches that will include telephonic face-to-face interventions depending on the model of care delivery
- Develop case or condition-specific plans of care using the clinical information system to establish short and long-term goals
- Establish a plan for regular contact with each member to review progress and assess the potential for additional needs
Qualifications for health coach
- Bachelor’s degree required in the field of nutrition, health sciences, psychology, or exercise physiology
- Nationally recognized health coach certification preferred
- RN with current and unrestricted MN license
- One year of managed care experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition, Science, Education or related Health field
- Master’s Degree in Nutrition preferred
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a health coach. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for health coach
- Participate in ongoing training and educational activities related to medical and behavioral health topics
- Keep up with the latest nutritional science research
- Be responsible for developing relationships with members through a combination of communication and methods aimed at increasing awareness, enhancing motivation, changing behavior and creating an environment that achieves optimal health and quality of life
- Promote available PHP tools and services to support member health that align with wellness industry best practices
- Work collaboratively with member(s) and PHP stakeholders to develop and coordinate services that promote sustainable lifestyle change, such as care management, smoking cessation, healthy nutrition and physical activity programs
- Develops and implements the yearly strategic business plan including program plan, marketing plan and communication plan working in partnership with the onsite fitness center manager to ensure an integrated program approach
- Perform face to face, telephonic and web enabled coaching in areas of personal health awareness, stress management/balanced living, nutrition, tobacco cessation and physical activity
- Deliver all phases of coaching enrollment phase, assessment phase, partnership phase, ownership phase and maintenance phase
- Discuss and explain all areas of the coaching process including product information, protocols, phases and content of coaching relationship
- Modify health coaching plan as necessary
Qualifications for health coach
- Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach highly desirable
- Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition or Dietetics field required
- Bachelors degree in psychology, health education, nutrition, exercise physiology, counseling, social work, public health or a related field required
- Knowledge of or ability to learn a client-centered counseling approach that emphasizes nonjudgmental empathic interaction and collaborative development and implementation of behavior change plans
- A Registered Dietitian or someone with a Counseling/Behavioral Science (non-licensed), Public Health, Health Education or Exercise Science experience is preferred
- Previous health coaching experience in a managed care environment is highly preferred
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a health coach. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for health coach
- Provide input and support to develop and improve coaching services and tools
- Conducts appropriate surveys/assessments to proactively identify needs, Develops appropriate care plans and establishes goals
- Creates discharge plans that include four (4) pillars
- Refers patient to appropriate community based organizations
- Conduct teleconference coaching sessions with assigned youth
- Respond to alerts for as-needed outreach
- Engage in supervision
- Work as part of a team to monitor implementation of the intervention
- Follow protocol defined procedures
- Input data in a timely fashion to the project's secure website
Qualifications for health coach
- Intermediate proficiency with MS Word and Outlook
- Ability to learn new computer-based documentation skills
- RN license for PA, WV, and DE is required
- 3 - 5 years of related, progressive clinical experience in any combination of clinical, case management and/or disease/condition management experience
- For FEP Health Coach, the following is required in addition to the requirements above -- at least 2 years full time equivalent experience providing direct clinical care to the consumer
- Basic PC computer literacy