Cardiac Wellness Coach-Cardiology Medicine-Marietta

Cardiac Wellness Coach-Marietta

How would you like to work in a place where your contributions and ideas are valued? A place where you can serve with compassion, pursue excellence and honor every voice? At Wellstar, our mission is simple, yet powerful: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. We are proud to have become a shining example of what's possible when the brightest professionals dedicate themselves to making a difference in the healthcare industry, and in people's lives.

The Cardiac Wellness Coach functions under the Preventive Cardiology Manager. The Cardiac Wellness Coach will provide individual wellness consults regarding healthy lifestyle behavior strategies to patients of the Wellstar Center for Cardiovascular Care. Wellness consults will include education regarding cardiac risk factor modification and determine the appropriate program referral to support patient's wellness goals. The Cardiac Wellness Coach develops close relationships with the physicians and staff to provide optimal resources and patient care. The Cardiac Wellness Coach develops and maintains a patient referral base for wellness patients and will participate in community health events; will travel to multiple locations based on the demand for wellness consults. The Cardiac Wellness Coach is responsible for organizing, writing, and constructing the content for the Cardiac Newsletter that is distributed quarterly. The Cardiac Wellness Coach provides patients with education around lifestyle modifications, serves as a key resource to patients to refer out to appropriate Wellstar services/departments that support the patient's wellness goals, and facilitates and supports the Prevention and Wellness initiatives for the Center for Cardiovascular Care.

Core Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

• Patient Education
• Provide 1:1 patient education on lifestyle modification.
• Conduct complimentary wellness consults.
• Conduct wellness coaching for self-pay patients.
• Serve as a key resource for referrals from wellness consults, wellness coaching, and Know Your Heart patients.
• Schedule appropriate wellness consults and manages referral and scheduling WQs.
• Refer patients to appropriate Wellstar services and departments that support patients wellness goals.
• Conduct fitness exercise classes as requested.
• Travel to additional locations based on the volume and demand of wellness consults.
• Marketing
• Continue to develop and support new avenues for building Wellness patient volumes and Wellstar referral sources for wellness patients
• Participate in speaking engagements and marketing events
• Support, engage and be knowledgeable regarding all initiatives of Wellstar's Center for Cardiovascular Care.
• Stats and Documentation
• Document all patient consults and education in EPIC
• Keep a log of patient consults, follow-up, and referrals.
• Request appropriate Wellstar referrals and track patient follow-up.
• Provides written reports to Manager that include patient outcomes of pre and post Wellness Coaching.
• Performs other duties as assigned Complies with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Required Minimum Education:

Bachelor's Degree in Exercise Science, Nutrition, Health Promotion or similar field

Required Minimum License(s) and Certification(s):

All certifications are required upon hire unless otherwise stated.

• BLS - Basic Life Support or BLS-I - Basic Life Support - Instructor
• CHC - Certified Health Coach-Preferred

Required Minimum Experience:

Minimum 1 year delivering wellness coaching or health education in a community or hospital environment Required

Required Minimum Skills:

Cardiac Wellness Coach should be proficient in the following areas: ability to guide behavior change efforts in others so that patients increase self-confidence and capacity to make and sustain positive lifestyle changes, knowledge of cardiovascular anatomy, cardiac risk factors, and cardiac related diseases and diagnosis, knowledge and basic understanding of health, nutrition, and fitness principles, proficient in the principles of behavior change; including motivational interviewing techniques, commitment to the mission of Wellstar Health System, and flexibility to work with patients/people of all walks of life. Exercises independent judgment and initiative when performing duties. Must have a strong passion and personal commitment to healthy behaviors and lifestyle. Cardiac Wellness Coach to champion and promote all Prevention and Wellness initiatives of the Center for Cardiovascular Care.

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