Health Coach - Flex Staff

Strength Through Diversity

Ground breaking science. Advancing medicine. Healing made personal. 

The Flex staff are responsible for assisting in providing a behavioral asthma-related intervention and the dissemination of educational materials to patients. They will also provide guidance to patients diagnosed with asthma from the World Trade Center Responders population. Develops effective interpersonal relationships with patients and works collaboratively with the care team. They will also serve as contacts for representatives of the community based organizations and the community advisory board members. 

Conduct health coaching sessions on health related behaviors according to study protocol.

• Coordinates with study clinician(s), other providers, and social work, as needed.
• Document all initiatives with patients to quantify for both QI initiatives and internal documentation.
• Assists in the creation and dissemination of promotional and educational materials. 
• Communicates with Mount Sinai World Trade Center Health Program and other related entities
• Attends study team meetings.

 

Education: Bachelor’s degree in science or related field preferred, or a combination of relevant research experience and education

• Experience: 1-2 years of research experience
• 15-20 hours a week commitment
• Bilingual Spanish preferred
• Appropriate verbal, written and interpersonal skills
• Organizational, problem solving and analytical skills

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:  

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization.  We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.

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“About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiolog