Health Coach, Primary Care Network - Burnaby, Canada - Fraser Health

Fraser Health

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Burnaby, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Why Fraser Health?:

Do you take responsibility for your own performance and seek to model integrity, resilience and confidence? Are you passionate about building an engaging environment that supports and challenges others to achieve their goals? If you've answered yes, then we want you to keep reading.

Fraser Health is responsible for the delivery of hospital and community-based health services to over 1.9 million people in 20 diverse communities from Burnaby to Fraser Canyon on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish and Nlaka'pamux Nations.

Our team of nearly 40,000 staff, medical staff and volunteers is dedicated to serving our patients, families and communities to deliver on our vision:
Better health, best in health care.

Effective October 26th, all new hires to Fraser Health will need to have full COVID 19 vaccination (have received a full series of a World Health Organization "WHO" approved vaccine against infection by SARS-COV2, or a combination of approved WHO vaccines). Please note this applies to all postings, and individual medical exemptions must be approved by the Provincial Health Officer.

We currently have a casual opportunity for a Health Coach to join our Primary Health Clinic in the South Fraser Community located in Surrey and White Rock, B.C.

In this role, you will support clients identified to be at risk for developing chronic disease, or in the early stages of chronic disease, by making realistic and maintainable lifestyle behavioural modifications.

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Detailed Overview:

In accordance with the Mission, Vision and Values of Fraser Health and the Primary Care Network, the Health Coach (HC) supports clients identified to be at risk for developing chronic disease, or in the early stages of chronic disease, by making realistic and maintainable lifestyle behavioural modifications.

The HC provides individual small-change lifestyle coaching and collaborates with the Primary Care Network interdisciplinary team, other Primary Care Network clinical programs and primary care providers to individualize change plans for the client.

The HC researches, advises and connects clients with programs and/or health education resources available in the community and facilitates the development, evaluation and enhancement of health education programs and services within the Primary Care Network.

Practices cultural sensitivity and humility, and establishes a dignifying and purposeful relationship with the client, contacting and getting to know the client as a unique individual.

Receives work direction from staff registered psychologist(s).

Responsibilities:

Receives referrals from primary care providers who have assessed and identified patients at risk for developing chronic diseases and/or in early stages of a chronic disease; liaises with Primary Care Network interdisciplinary team regarding referrals to determine specific behaviour problems such as those related to physical activity, nutrition, sleep, depressive and/or distressed symptoms; arranges client visits via a facetoface and/or virtual health visit structure.
Supports clients through the creation and implementation of personalized plans by utilizing approaches such as a stepped care approach focusing on improvements in lifestyle management behaviours and the setting of SMALL (specific, measurable, actionoriented, linkedtoyourlife and longterm) goals.
Provides health education to the client/family/caregiver to increase their knowledge of the client's health status; promotes/enhances the client's health status by teaching procedures appropriate for their care needs; liaises and collaborates with internal and external providers including community resources to support the development, evaluation and enhancement of current health education programs focusing on primary prevention and chronic disease management strategies for clients within the Primary Care Network utilizing traditional and progressive training practices; develops informational materials and participates in staff education programs, as required.
Provides lifestyle coaching to clients based on the Small Changes health behaviour change model by utilizing motivational interviewing techniques to address specific behavioural problems including, but not limited to, physical activity, nutrition, sleep, depressive and/or distressed symptom; arranges and facilitates group lifestyle coaching of individuals with similar barriers as required and ap