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Position Description
- Provide telephonic health coaching based on participants' completed health risk appraisal and stage of change.
- Utilize participant – centered coaching methodologies and/or theories to improve healthy lifestyle behaviors, long term health outcomes and quality of life
- Give assessment of low, medium and high modifiable risk areas
- Assist participants' progress through long and short term goal setting, using a myriad of health suggestions and resources
- Participate in collective record keeping which allows for continuity to exist between multiple health coaching sessions
- Maintain specified health credentialing, including certification and ongoing continuing education
- Perform other, varied job-related duties as assigned.
qualifications, skills and experience:
- A Bachelor’s degree or 5 years health and wellness experience is required
- If not already certified, the Lifestyle Health Coach must achieve (and maintain) a nationally recognized certification within 12 months of employment; i.e.: CHES, ACSM, NBHWC or equivalent, and/or maintain licensure held, such as RD, RN, LPN, LMHC, LCSW or NCC.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as and strong telephonic relationship building skills
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment combined with excellent time management skills
- Strong technology skills and the ability to navigate multiple screens at once is required.
preferred:
- Bachelor’s degree in a health-related discipline
- 1-5 years of health and wellness experience
- Candidates fluent in Spanish are encouraged to apply.
As a member of WebMD Health Services, you may have access to confidential and sensitive information (including Protected Health Information) that will require you to follow additional protocols to ensure the security of our data. As a core requirement, you must implement and act in accordance with the organization’s information security policies; protect assets from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, destruction or interference; execute security processes or activities; and report security events or potential events or other security risks to the appropriate parties within the organization.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree or five years of health and wellness experience
- Nationally recognized certification such as CHES, ACSM, NBHWC, or equivalent within 12 months if not already certified
- Maintain applicable professional licensure, such as RD, RN, LPN, LMHC, LCSW, or NCC
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong telephonic relationship-building skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and demonstrate strong time management
- Strong technology skills and ability to navigate multiple screens simultaneously
- Bachelor’s degree in a health-related discipline
- One to five years of health and wellness experience
- Fluency in Spanish
What We Do
Our Company: WebMD is a leading provider of health information services to consumers, physicians, healthcare professionals, employers and health plans. Our Business: WebMD is the leading provider of health information and services to consumers and healthcare professionals. The online healthcare information, decision-support applications and communications services that we provide: help consumers take an active role in managing their health by providing objective healthcare information and lifestyle information. make it easier for physicians and healthcare professionals to access clinical reference sources, stay abreast of the latest clinical information, learn about new treatment options, earn continuing medical education credits and communicate with peers. enable employers and health plans to provide their employees and plan members with access to personalized heath and benefit information and decision support technology that helps them make informed benefit, provider and treatment choices.
