{"id":5933,"date":"2015-06-19T10:03:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T10:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centerforcoachingcertification.com\/coachingblog\/?p=5933"},"modified":"2015-05-26T19:50:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T19:50:02","slug":"find-a-job-as-a-health-and-wellness-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/find-a-job-as-a-health-and-wellness-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Find a Job as a Health and Wellness Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As with any job, finding work as a health and wellness coach starts with a great resume, strategies for finding the right job, interviewing skills, following up, and negotiating. (Of course this sounds like career coaching J)<\/p>\n<p>Places to look for health and wellness coaching jobs include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Commercial insurance providers \u2013 Major insurance providers such as Humana, Aetna, and Unitedhealth use coaches to help improve their consumers\u2019 health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Government and community agencies \u2013 many agencies provide access to resources that support employee health and wellness including coaching.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Employee Assistance Benefit Providers \u2013 wellness and disease management program providers. This is a growing area for health coaches. These providers contract services to larger benefit provider groups who want to include additional benefits above and beyond the traditional medical, vision, dental, and prescription plans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5934\" src=\"https:\/\/www.CoachCert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/D5bgsgJY7wLOcNyC7t1q3BIHyjXN69E1ns7_AkMtf-E-261x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Find a Job as a Health and Wellness Coach\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/D5bgsgJY7wLOcNyC7t1q3BIHyjXN69E1ns7_AkMtf-E-261x300.jpeg 261w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/D5bgsgJY7wLOcNyC7t1q3BIHyjXN69E1ns7_AkMtf-E-52x60.jpeg 52w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/D5bgsgJY7wLOcNyC7t1q3BIHyjXN69E1ns7_AkMtf-E.jpeg 731w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/>Concierge wellness benefit programs \u2013 many companies \u201ccarve out\u201d their benefit programs and have concierge or specialty benefit programs, or target at risk employees through a structured wellness program of health fairs, education, assessment, coaching, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Health clubs \u2013 YMCAs and other fitness centers are using health coaches as adjuncts to trainers and health educators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Corporations \u2013 Corporations are beginning to include on-site health coaching for different aspects of health and wellness including weight management, smoke cessation, and stress management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Hospitals and health systems \u2013 Hospitals and health systems use health coaches for specific disease management care such as diabetes and obesity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Home care &#8211; In-home assessments \u2013using health coaches in the home for risk management, including safety and fall management, is a relatively new area of coaching utilization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Substance abuse rehabilitation \u2013 Behavioral health coaches are used to support the individual through their transition from primary treatment and assists in their development of the skills necessary for a sustained commitment to self-management of their chronic disease of addiction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Health coaching is provided using a variety of methods including telephone, web-based technologies, or face-to-face. Up to 76% of health coaching is done by telephone. This means jobs may be remote so look outside your area too!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with any job, finding work as a health and wellness coach starts with a great resume, strategies for finding the right job, interviewing skills, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[70,67,81,314,316,325,335,115,57,87,79,107],"class_list":["post-5933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-achieve-and-sustain-excellence","tag-coaching-niche","tag-coaching-success","tag-health-and-wellness","tag-health-and-wellness-coaching","tag-health-and-wellness-coaching-certification","tag-health-and-wellness-positions","tag-icf-approved-coach-training","tag-part-or-full-time-coaching-business","tag-professional-coach","tag-skills","tag-strategy","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5935,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions\/5935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}