Health Coach

🕒 August 6

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $30 / hour

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

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Virta Health

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201 - 500 employees

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🧘 Wellness

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance • Wellness

Virta Health is a healthcare company focused on reversing type 2 diabetes and promoting sustainable weight loss through a nutrition-first approach. The company offers personalized treatment plans that help individuals reduce or eliminate the need for diabetes medications. Virta collaborates with organizations and healthcare providers to deliver transformative outcomes in metabolic care. Their approach is evidence-backed, emphasizing the importance of lifestyle and dietary changes to achieve lasting health improvements and weight management.

📋 Description

• Provide evidence-based nutrition and behavior change coaching to help members improve metabolic health • Deliver personalized coaching through chat and telephone interactions • Help members interpret nutrition, metabolic-marker, and other health data • Support member engagement, retention, long-term success, and sustainable behavior change • Use motivational interviewing and member-centered goal setting • Follow clinical workflows and accurately document member interactions, outreach, and progress • Collaborate with Virta Providers and other care-team members to deliver tailored, safe care • Complete onboarding training and begin managing Virta members, including onboarding calls and day-to-day care • Learn the platforms, tools, and KPIs used to perform and measure the role • Contribute feedback to team culture, learning, and process improvements • Connect with colleagues and help live out Virta’s values

🎯 Requirements

• 2 years of experience working directly with patients to create plans and set goals, including chronic-condition or metabolic-health coaching, nutrition counseling, motivational interviewing, community health, weight loss or bariatric centers, health counseling, or mental health counseling • Health coaching experience or recent completion of a coaching program, ideally NBHWC or ICF • Associate’s, Bachelor’s, or advanced degree in a health, behavioral health, or related field • Ability to safely, responsibly, and effectively use digital platforms and AI-enabled tools for remote care • Proficiency with texting, phone calls, video chats, instant messaging, Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, and strong typing skills • High EQ and empathy when working with different personalities through change • Strong motivation, organizational skills, and attention to detail • Passion for working directly with members in metabolic health as a frontline care provider • Critical-thinking, clinical-judgment, and problem-solving ability • Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and empathetically across different modes and audiences • Collaboration, teamwork, knowledge sharing, and willingness to support teammates • Ability to create plans, set goals, hold individuals accountable, connect actions to progress, and adjust approaches • Comfort working in changing conditions or with incomplete information • Spanish verbal and/or written fluency required by the application question • Legally authorized to work in the United States • Professional experience with type 2 diabetes, obesity, or other metabolic conditions is nice to have • Experience with asynchronous and telephonic coaching is nice to have • Experience with ketogenic or low-carb nutrition is nice to have • NBC-HWC or ICF certification is nice to have • Must follow Virta security and privacy procedures for HIPAA-governed patient information

🏖️ Benefits

• Offers Equity • Remote work / remote-first company • Office hubs in Denver and San Francisco • Security and privacy training will be provided • Access to company tools and platforms for remote care • Team culture, learning, and process improvement opportunities