Virtual Behavioral Health Coach

It's more than a career, it's a calling.

WI-REMOTE

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Summary:

Engages with patients and encourages them to take an active role in their health by providing them with the tools necessary to make healthy life choices and adopt lifelong health behaviors. Assist patient with coordination of care across the care continuum.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides customized, evidence-based patient education variety of areas including but not limited to weight management/exercise, tobacco cessation, stress reduction, and chronic disease self-management.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Implements a range of skills including but not limited to coaching, motivational interviewing, behavior modification, goal setting, barrier assessment and problem solving.
• Assists with the coordination of care across the care continuum (including home care, outpatient care, ER care, and hospital care).
• Communicates care plans and pertinent information with the primary care team as well as with other specialists or parties participating in the care of the patient.
• Collaborates with patients to actively engage a population of medically vulnerable or chronically ill patients in their care, assisting them through the process of actively working towards better health by providing support, encouragement, and education.
• Advocates and facilitates referrals to gain access to services and resources for patients, including assistance programs, community-based services, and mental health support.
• Encourages the patient to participate in shared decision making with his/her doctor when faced with multiple treatment options. Helps the patient understand the options and evaluate personal preferences and values related to likely treatment outcomes, with the goal of preparing the patient to discuss the risks and benefits of each option with the physician.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience and education

EXPERIENCE

• None

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Occasional driving.
• Constant use of vision for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more).
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing over 50 lbs.
• Frequent standing, twisting and walking.
• Constant lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Occasional use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
• Rare crawling, running and lifting/moving patients.
• Occasional bending, stooping, climbing, kneeling, sitting, squatting, reaching, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Constant use of hearing to receive oral communication and hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent use of speech to share information through oral communication.
• Frequent use of vision to judge distances and spatial relationships and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Occasional keyboard use/data entry.

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Employee

Department:

8722000033 System Med Grp

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

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