Overview

Now is the time to join us!

At Virgin Pulse we value and celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe in creating teams made up of individuals with various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Why? Because diversity inspires innovation, collaboration, and challenges us to produce better solutions. But more than this, diversity is our strength, and a catalyst in our ability to #changelivesforgood.

Responsibilities

Who are you?

This is a full-time onsite position supporting Huntington Health in Pasadena, CA. This award-winning world class care organization is both locally and nationally recognized for excellent care.The Health & Wellbeing Specialist/Coach is a client-dedicated member of the Virgin Pulse account team, focused on building a culture of health, enhancing health and wellbeing engagement, and driving health behavior change through education, and health coaching. The Health & Wellbeing Specialist collaborates with Virgin Pulse account leadership and the client’s HR, benefits, and/or stakeholder teams. This individual will provide advocacy for Virgin Pulse products and demonstrate Virgin Pulse’s mission of Changing Lives for Good. This position will include 2% travel to off-campus, local, acute care centers.

In this role you will wear many hats, but your knowledge will be essential in the following:

• Conduct individual and group coaching sessions focused on health improvement and wellbeing
• Coach across multiple modalities including in-person or via video conferencing
• Direct employees to the appropriate resources for health concerns, outside of the scope of work
• Utilize coaching strategies including motivational interviewing, appreciative inquiry, and participant led focus, for improving the health of others
• Help design, develop, communicate, and execute an annual health and wellbeing programming plan, in alignment with client’s strategic goals and priorities
• Monitor, evaluate, and respond to program measurements and participant feedback, including operations and quality, to drive continuous quality improvement initiatives and goals
• Engage and partner with client stakeholders and internal groups (Diversity & Inclusion, Employee Resource Groups, etc…) to build and support a culture of health
• Leverage community partnerships to support client goals including initiatives related to social determinants of health, diversity, equity and inclusion
• Collaborate with the client’s health plan and vendor partners to identify opportunities for health awareness and engagement, and to drive utilization of the client’s suite of health, benefits, and wellbeing offerings
• Support Virgin Pulse platform enrollment and ongoing engagement to associated solutions, resources, and partners
• Support implementation of health promotion programs including health screenings, flu shots, and open enrollment events
• Drive localized health engagement and awareness through educational opportunities and creative programming
• Conduct regular data assessment and reporting to internal and external stakeholders, to define opportunities, track impact, and determine next best steps
• Champion the Huntington Health Great 8 Traits of Wellness: physical, spiritual, environmental, recreational, financial, social, mental/emotional, and occupational
• Collaborate with Virgin Pulse and client support teams including Marketing, Product, Business Operations, and Customer Service
• Partner with Virgin Pulse peers to share best practices and opportunities to drive best-in-class services to our clients
• Perform other related duties as assigned

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Qualifications

What you bring to the Virgin Pulse team

In order to represent the best of what we have to offer you come to us with a multitude of positive attributes including:

• Bachelor’s degree in health promotion or other health related field such as public health, community health, nutrition, exercise physiology, etc…
• NBHWC or ICF preferred
• Masters Degree preferred
• At least 2-3 years of experience in fields related to health and wellbeing
• 2-3 years of experience in corporate environment preferred
• Experience working with incentive programs; working knowledge of the Virgin Pulse platform and systems/tools preferred
• 3-5 years of experience in fields related to health coach role preferred, including: behavioral health, general well-being, exercise training, nutrition coaching, background in nursing, etc.
• Experience in conducting individual or group coaching sessions that create a comfortable and confidential environment for participants is preferred
• Comfortable working with a diverse participant populations
• Health plan experience preferred

You also take pride in offering the following Core Skills, Competencies, and Characteristics:

• You are a maximizer who is always looking to enhance, never being satisfied with the status quo.
• You create trust by demonstrating strong performance, reliable follow-through, authentic communication, and humble gratitude.
• You obsess over relationships.
• You invest in the mastery of strengths and harness the resources to support your weaknesses.
• You defy conventional wisdom as you innovate, design, and execute wellness experiences.
• You keenly distinguish what moves the needle and what moves the heart.
• You make the job fun.
• You make wise decisions in the face of ambiguity, and you own your mistakes with one eye on performance improvement.
• You embrace wellness by never sacrificing your own health. You find harmony with your personal and professional responsibilities.

• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to identify processes and organize resources to coordinate and execute multiple projects simultaneously
• Excellent time management; using time effectively and efficiently while prioritizing appropriately
• Self-starter, entrepreneurial mindset with outstanding written and interpersonal communication skills
• Detail oriented with thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task, while demonstrating concern for all areas involved
• Outstanding ability to deliver presentations at all levels of an organization, to diverse audiences and groups and via multiple modalities including virtually and in-person, when appropriate
• Strong customer service orientation skilled at establishing and maintaining effective relationships across diverse groups and individuals within an organization; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect
• Naturally curious and energetic and able to work independently with minimal supervision and
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!

Why work at Virgin Pulse?

We believe a career should provide competitive pay and benefits, a collaborative and supportive culture and cutting-edge technology and services. Virgin Pulse is an equal opportunity organization and is committed to diversity, inclusion, equity and social justice. To that end, we make a particular effort to recruit candidates from minoritized backgrounds to apply for open positions.

In compliance with all states and cities that require transparency of pay, the base compensation for this position ranges from 65,000-73,000 annually. Note that salary may vary based on location, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for 5% variable compensation as well as health, dental, vision, mental health and other benefits.