Onsite Health Coach

Elevance Health•St. Louis, MO

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Onsite Health Coach is responsible for providing health coaching to members, across all brands, with chronic diseases. This field-based role enables associates to primarily operate in the field, traveling to client sites or designated locations as their role requires, with occasional office attendance for meetings or training. This approach ensures flexibility, responsiveness to client needs, and direct, hands-on engagement. The role is 100% onsite at the client's location in St. Louis, MO. Candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

Requirements

Requires BA/BS in appropriate field of specialization (examples such as Health Education, Exercise Physiology, Respiratory Therapy or Dietician) and minimum of 3 years of related experience in health education, exercise instruction, or patient education; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.
Certification, advanced certification, and/or license appropriate to field of specialty as required.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience in health coaching, disease management and knowledge of behavioral and/or clinical assessment techniques, health and/or patient education and behavior change techniques.
Understanding of disease management principles.

Responsibilities

Conducts behavioral assessments to identify individual member knowledge, skills, and behavioral needs.
Coordinates specific health coaching as directed by nurse case manager to address objectives and goals as identified during assessment.
Implements coaching plan by using behavior change principles to identify member barriers and develop ways to overcome those barriers.
Coordinates with the nurse case manager to provide feedback on member goal attainment and clinical issues.
Monitors and evaluates the interventions and modifies.