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. 

• 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  

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

• Preferred Progressive healthcare leadership experience with demonstrated success  

• College degree in health-related field desired 

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

• 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