Health Coach - Lifestyle Management

Overview

Now is the time to join us! 

At Virgin Pulse we value and celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe in creating teams made up of individuals with various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Why? Because diversity inspires innovation, collaboration, and challenges us to produce better solutions. But more than this, diversity is our strength, and a catalyst in our ability to #changelivesforgood.   

Responsibilities

Who are you?

 

This is a Part-time role. 

 

You are passionate about improving peoples' wellbeing.You are a skilled, passionate team player with the capacity to work in a trusted primary coach role with the coaching participants ofVirgin Pulse's clients. Youare capable of promotingindividualhealthand well-beingthroughmultiple modalities, including phone and messaging,as well as group-basedsessions relatedto participants'goals.You are humble and supportive ofothers. You have a "team first"mentality butarecourageous enough to think outside the box. You are hungry to create meaningful change and exceed expectations. You are smart so you know when and how to collaborate and find solutions to challenges.

 

In this role you will wear many hats, but your knowledge will be essential in the following:  

• Apassionforutilizing coaching strategies, including motivational interviewing, appreciative inquiry, and participant led focus,for improving the health of others.
• Enthusiastic with a positive attitudeand asolution-orientedapproach.You are resilient and adaptable.
• Strong ability to strategically support members using Virgin Pulse's multi-modal approach, utilizing both messaging and telephonic sessions
• Preventive careminded,empathic, flexible, and energetic.
• Strong organizational skills with a high level of attention to detailandability to manage multiple tasks and priorities at once.
• Ability to support participantswith awide variety of health concerns and approaches to drive towards change and positive outcomes, including gaps in care.
• Open to feedback and improving coaching skills on-going and abilityto use metrics to assist in driving individual improvement.
• Proficient in electronic documentation to record and track coaching experience and quick learner of new technology or systems.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, high energy, team-oriented environment.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, including superior communication skills.
• Accountable to admin related tasks and showing up prepared to manager 1:1s
• Accountable to meeting individual metrics

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Qualifications

What you bring to the Virgin Pulse team

In order to represent the best of what we have to offer you come to us with a multitude of positive attributes including:

• Bachelor's degree in ahealth-relatedfieldrequired, Master's degree preferred.
• NBHWCor ICF strongly encouraged but not required. 
• Tobaccocessationcertification and/or experience coaching on financial well-being preferred.
• 3-5 years of experience in fields related to Health Coach role preferred, including:behavioral health,general well-being,exercise training, nutrition coaching, background in nursing,etc.
• 2-4 years of experience with individual behavior change management, motivational interviewing, and Health Coaching.
• Experiencepreferredin conducting individualor groupcoaching sessions that create a comfortable and confidential environment forparticipantsusingaprimary coach model focusingon the overall well-being of the individual.

You also take pride in offering the following Core Skills, Competencies, and Characteristics:

• Comfortable working with a diverseparticipantpopulation and navigating complex cases.
• Familiarity with digital health apps, comfortable with technology and web-based software tools as well as delivering Health Coaching by use of software/technology.
• Ability to troubleshoot with technology.
• Proficiency in PC-based word processing and database documentation (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet, Outlook). 

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

 

#LI-REMOTE 

 

Why work at Virgin Pulse? 

We believe a career should provide competitive pay and benefits, a collaborative and supportive culture and cutting-edge technology and services. Virgin Pulse is an equal opportunity organization and is committed to diversity, inclusion, equity and social justice. To that end, we make a particular effort to recruit candidates from minoritized backgrounds to apply for open positions.

 

In compliance with all states and cities that require transparency of pay, the base compensation for this position ranges from $28.00 - $33.00 per hour.  Note that salary may vary based on location, skills, and experience. 

Employment Type: PART_TIME