WELLNESS COACH - Adult/Youth CPR

Mark Twain Behavioral Health is seeking a full-time WELLNESS COACH in our HANNIBAL FORREST DRIVE office.  This full-time position offers competitive pay and benefits.  Consider joining our MTBH Team!  We offer a supportive culture of appreciation and a strong emphasis on the health and well-being of our team.

The Wellness Coach supports CPR clients in a collaborative process to assess the personal wellness of the client, identify strengths and wellness dimensions to improve, create a plan, and offer support to achieve the wellness goal.   Through specialized training, the Wellness Coach helps clients to make positive changes on health issues through the use of knowledge of health and wellness, health literacy, effective communication skills, coaching principles, and strategies to motivate and inspire. Wellness Coaches are expected to work in a variety of settings, including agency offices, consumer homes, local human services offices, and local residential care facilities.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Utilize a deliberate, intentional process to assist the client in identifying and reaching selected wellness goals, particularly in the physical wellness dimension
• Establish relationships and orient new clients to wellness coaching
• Assess strengths and areas of focus for improvement
• Assist client to create SMART goal and wellness plan
• Provide accountability with routine check-ins
• Engage in brainstorming and empower client to identify individual solutions to health problems and barriers
• Monitor client participation and progress
• Ensure communication with CSS regarding Wellness Plan
• Complete Wellness Planning Tool in Carelogic
• Maintain clinical records to comply with Wellness Coaching standards
• Participate in development of treatment planning with addition of Wellness SMART Goal in conjunction with consumer, family members, and other stakeholders
• Complete required documentation in a timely fashion, including treatment plan and progress notes in agency-mandated format
• Assure all supporting documentation is present in each client file
• Serve as client advocate as needed
• Behave in a professional and courteous manner with co-workers, supervisory staff, community members, and consumers of behavioral health services and their families
• Complete daily schedule in Carelogic
• Produce billable hours over 50% of hours worked
•  Adhere to all client rights, including confidentiality
•  Other job duties may be assigned

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in a Human Services field or four years of equivalent experience with consumers and their families receiving psychiatric, substance use, or developmental disabilities services

         OR

• Registered Nursing license in the state of Missouri with at least two years of full-time equivalent psychiatric experience
• Current Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), First Aid, and Wellness Coaching Certification 
• Medication Aide, Level I Certification 

Join Our Team

We offer benefit plans including health insurance with a company-paid premium for employee, Health Savings Account with annual employer contribution, 403b retirement plan with annual employer contribution, employee wellness program with financial support for a healthy lifestyle, an interest in work/life balance that includes generous amounts of paid time off plus 11 paid holidays each year, educational funds and time allowance for professional development, amazing teammates, a strong emphasis on health and wellbeing and positive work environment, celebrations of employee appreciation, focus on core company values of compassion, excellence, innovation, integrity, respect, teamwork, and wellness, with opportunities to contribute the lives of others and help people be well.

Mark Twain Behavioral Health is an equal opportunity employer and does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status or any other characteristic protected by law in any of its services, activities, or operations.