Health Coaching Jobs Newsletter #15

January 6, 2025

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Leslie Wier-Fincher
January 06, 2025

Happy New Year Coaches!

I hope you had a warm, safe, and happy holiday season, and are feeling rejuvenated for the new year. After some much needed time off, I’m back and ready to go with our first newsletter of the year!

My word of focus for this year is “Expansion”. So, I decided to quit my full time benefitted job as a coach in digital health to move fully into freelance coaching. It’s kind of scary to be honest, but with this change I’ll also be able to dedicate more time and energy to growing this newsletter and offering greater resources and support for our community’s professional development. To that end, thank you to everyone who completed the survey I sent in December. The survey is still open! Your feedback is invaluable in helping me to make decisions and prioritize changes according to your needs.

I have been critically considering ways to fund the newsletter moving forward in a way that also keeps the content accessible. Many coaches have expressed a desire to support my work financially, so I’ve created a tip jar for anyone who is interested and able. I pay out of my own money in operating and hosting fees, and any contribution would be greatly appreciated.

Also - we reached over 1,000 subscribers in December, in large part due to your efforts to share the newsletter. Thank you so, so much.

With immense gratitude,

Leslie
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NBHWC Competency Update

Over the past year, the NBHWC has worked diligently to update the core competencies for health coaching, aligning them with the evolving needs of our field. These competencies serve as the blueprint for NBHWC-approved coach education programs. As coaching has expanded the competencies have evolved to address diverse coaching situations and environments, enabling greater inclusivity and adaptability in coaching practice to meet the needs of different coaches and client populations. This months long effort was informed by a wide range of coaches and experts from medicine, academia, and various industries, ensuring a well-rounded perspective.

The new competencies place a stronger focus on whole health, emphasizing structural and social determinants of health. Four content areas have expanded to five:

  1. Coaching Presence, Relationships, and Sessions

  2. Theories, Models, and Approaches to Behavior Change

  3. Skills, Tools, and Strategies

  4. Ethics and Professional Practice

  5. Health and Wellness.

Below is a brief overview of how each section adds new emphasis and expands on the previous competencies:

  1. Coaching Presence, Relationships, and Sessions

New emphasis is added on cultural humility, inclusive coaching practices, and addressing power dynamics and microaggressions. There is also a new section on coach self-awareness and self-regulation. The competencies are expanded to inviting feedback, using culturally appropriate communication, and considering access issues during session preparation. There is also expansion within the the detailed subsections for session structure.

  1. Theories, Models, and Approaches to Behavior Change

This has been expanded to cover Motivational Interviewing 4.0 including the spirit, tasks, and distinctions between change and sustain talk. Growth Mindset and Appreciative Inquiry have also been added as new theoretical frameworks.

  1. Skills, Tools, and Strategies

This section expands on the toolset of coaches as well as competencies adapting tools to meet individual client needs, including cultural considerations. There is enhanced focus on using complex reflections and addressing nonverbal communication, as well as on recognizing and leveraging a client’s lived experiences and cultural identity.

  1. Ethics and Professional Practice

New competencies have been added for managing digital health platforms and disclosing the use of AI and emerging technologies, including detailed requirements for data security. This section also has enhanced focus on diversity, cultural humility, and equity and expands on what ongoing professional development should look like for a coach.

  1. Health and Wellness

Competencies have been added on healthy equity and disparities, structural and social determinants of health, and health literacy and numeracy. This section also expands on knowledge areas for chronic conditions including dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and substance use.

What does this mean for you? Even if you are not a board certified coach, these changes are indicative of wider trends in the industry and as such are relevant for all health coaches in growing their careers. Consider strategic upskilling in cultural humility, technology use in coaching, specific health knowledge areas, and creating tailored approaches for clients based on their lived experiences, preferences, and social context using a variety of frameworks and strategies.

If you’d like a behind the scenes perspective from two professionals in our field involved in the revision of the competencies, check out this conversation between Dr. Cherie O’Neill and Dr. Diego Salinas on LinkedIn.

And of course, the full updated competencies can be accessed on the NBHWC website here.

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The Jobs

FEATURED JOBS

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Here’s your Legend for the listings:

Job Title. Company. Full/Part-time. Specialization or important requirements. $ (indicates salary is listed). Residency requirement by state abbreviation, if applicable.

NBC-HWC

The NBC-HWC credential is either explicitly required, preferred, or considered for these roles.

New Listings:

Cleo Coach, Medicare. Cleo. Full time. Medicare experience. $.

Behavioral Health Coach, Bilingual Spanish. Brightline. Full time, PST.


Previous Listings:

Health Coach - Fertility. Frame. Contract, part time.

Associate Health Coach - Bilingual Spanish. Hinge Health. Part-full time, temporary (6 months). $.

Health Coach. Swing Care. Contract. Chronic Pain. $.

Health Coach. Vida Health. Part time. $. (Repost)

Accountability Coach. Calibrate. Part time. $. (Scroll down for 2 roles)

Behavioral Health Coach. Bend Health. Part time. $. PST or CST.

General Health Coaching

New Listings:

Health Coach. Sharecare. Full time, flexible/alternative sched.

Expert Coach II. Teladoc. Full time. Diabetes. $.

Health Coach. Doctors Studio. Full time. Functional medicine. $. (need to search at link)

Behavioral Health Coach. Intellect. Freelance, flexible. ICF.

Previous Listings:

Health Coach - Preventative. RVO Health. Full time, some alt. schedule. $.

Coach. TaskHuman. Contract, Freelance.

Health Coach. Revero. Part time, contract. $.

Clinical License/Experience Health Coaching

These roles require clinical licensure or experience such as an RD, RN, LCSW, etc.

New Listings:

Student Wellness Coach. Catapult Learning. Per Diem. Mental Health Licensure.

Health Coach, Registered Dietician. CVS Health. Full time. $.

Health Coach RN. Independence Blue Cross. Full time, flexible. PA RN.

Previous Listings:

Nurse Wellness Coach. Emblem Health. Full time, flexible. RN Compact or Connecticut/New York). Spanish. $.

Dietitian Coach. All Access Dietitians. Part time. RD/LDN, NBC-HWC. Illinois.

Accountability Coach. Perry Health. Part time/Contract. LPN/medical licensure. $.

Heart Coach (Preventative). Ucardia. Part time. Cardiovascular disease.

Heart Coach (Recovery). Ucardia. Part time. CEP or RCEP.

Health Coach/Medical Assistant. Cadence. 2 Roles, full time and part time.. Active Med. Assistant.

Coaching Education, Management & Operations

New Listings: 

Coach Manager. Calibrate. Full time, PST hours. NBC-HWC. $.

Previous Listings:

Health Coach Training Faculty. Open Source Wellness. Part time. NBC-HWC. $. (Also has location based Health Coaching roles in CA.

Healthcare/Coaching Adjacent, and Other Coaching

These roles are chosen for their potential in using and building coaching related skills (especially in the absence of entry level coaching roles), or coaching in different environments.

New Listings:

Executive ADHD Coach. ADHDCoaching.com. Part/full time, flexible. $.

DLS Work Wellness Coach, Specialty Accommodation. Amazon. Full time. Disability support services. $

Performance Coach. Future. Part-time, contract.

Previous Listings:

Psychedelic Guide (Integration Coach). Mindbloom. Full/part time. Psychedelics. $.

Student Success Coach. Unitek Learning. Full time, PST schedule. $.

About

The Health Coaching Jobs Newsletter is a one woman operation fueled by a passion for supporting coaches and the growth of the health and wellness coaching industry.

As the newsletter grows, I would love to hear from you! Send an email to [email protected] - share how your job search is going, how your coaching is going, and what you’d like to see in future newsletters!

DISCLAIMER: This information is being provided to you for educational and informational purposes only. It is being shared to provide general information and as a self-help tool for your own use. It is not to be substituted for the advice of licensed professionals of any kind. This information is to be used at your own risk based on your own judgment.

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