Medical Group l Kettering l Full-Time l First Shift

Responsibilities & Requirements

The Lifestyle Medicine Health Coach (LMHC) is responsible for supporting patients along their whole person healthcare journey to help them achieve optimal health. The LMHC will readily and proactively demonstrate and link the role of lifestyle behaviors with health and well-being in alignment with Kettering Health’s Lifestyle Medicine curriculum. Connecting with patients by meeting each person where they are without judgement is one of the key tenets and foundational to assisting each patient. Providing support as patients navigate healthful behaviors, ensuring accountability, and using evidence-based tools and strategies are other core tenets. With the myriad of communication channels, the LMHC will recognize the value of understanding each patient’s preference(s) and be adept with multi-modal, synchronous and asynchronous communication. While the LMHC needs to be comfortable with being autonomous, collaboration with the extended Lifestyle Medicine team is essential. The LMHC will provide analytics that demonstrate measurable outcomes and create patient portfolios to help the patients map their progress as well as comprehensive reports with anonymized aggregate data for the LM program.

The Lifestyle Medicine Health Coach will meet with patients one-on-one or in shared medical appointments to facilitate and inspire positive lifestyle changes in the following areas: optimal nutrition, physical activity, stress management, restorative sleep, social connectedness, avoidance of risky behaviors and spiritual health.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Essential Functions:

Passion for health and wellness

Build enduring, trusting relationships with patients

Be recognized as a resource and an advocate for your patients

Create exceptional patient experiences with each patient connection

Utilize the Kettering Health Lifestyle Medicine Curriculum as the foundation of lifestyle medicine information

Help each patient meet or exceed their lifestyle medicine goals

Pursue knowledge to stay abreast of current health and wellness research and evidence-backed guidelines and initiatives to help support the transformation of patient’s lives and help each patient achieve their optimal potential

Create an environment that facilitates and supports the process of change for each patient and believes in the ability of each patient to make positive changes

Recognize and value the individuality of each patient and understand the tools and strategies that best support each patient on his/her healthcare journey which includes helping patients understand their motivation for change

Track the progress of each patient and the collective progress of the Lifestyle Medicine patient population

Work collaboratively with Lifestyle Medicine team to support each patient’s journey

Support each Lifestyle Medicine team member in a variety of capacities

Work Experience:

Minimum Two (2) years as health coach with proven attributes of favorable patient outcomes

Preferred Progressive healthcare leadership experience with demonstrated success

Minimum Education:

College degree in health-related field desired

Required: Health Coach certification – please provide the curriculum for your Health Coach certification

Required Certifications:

BLS required

Required skills include but are not limited to the following:

Strong listening skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Organizational skills

Excellent relationship-building skills

Motivational interviewing skills

Empathy

Emotional intelligence

Self-aware

Curious

Critical Thinking

Attention to Detail

Epic

Competent in MS Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Overview

Kettering Health is a not-for-profit system of 13 medical centers and more than 120 outpatient facilities serving southwest Ohio. We are committed to transforming the health care experience with high-quality care for every stage of life. Our service-oriented mission is in action every day, whether it’s by providing care in our facilities, training the next generation of health care professionals, or serving others through international outreach.

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Responsibilities & Requirements