Job Description
Health and Wellness Specialist
Bring your passion to Texas Health so we are Better + Together
Work location: Based out of Texas Health Dallas and Texas Health Fort Worth
Work hours: Full-time, Monday – Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm, with up to two Saturdays per month required
This is a grant funded position and subject to the award and continuation of the contract
Qualifications
· High School Diploma or Equivalent required.
· MA - Medical Assistant Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) from a nationally recognized certifying organization. Required upon hire. Other National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) 18 Months required.
· 4 Years Experience in a healthcare or community health environment providing patient education, facilitating health discussions, or presenting health-related information to individuals or groups, required.
· CPI - Crisis Prevention Intervention Training 90 Days required.
· Driver’s License (required)
· BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support 90 Days required.
Here’s What You Will Do:
· Deliver structured group education sessions utilizing the approved THR Curriculum focused on chronic disease prevention, postpartum recovery, and healthy lifestyle practices.
· Guide participants through curriculum content related to nutrition, physical activity, stress management, chronic disease prevention, and long-term wellness.
· Facilitate discussions that encourage peer support, shared learning, and participant engagement.
· Maintain fidelity to the Centering curriculum while adapting delivery to meet the needs of diverse community populations.
· Support postpartum mothers in adopting healthy lifestyle behaviors that reduce long-term risk for chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease.
· Support outreach efforts to recruit eligible postpartum mothers and community members into lifestyle education programs.
Additional perks of being a Texas Health, Health and Wellness Specialist
· Benefits include 401k, PTO, medical, dental, Paid Parental Leave, flex spending, tuition reimbursement, Student Loan Repayment Program as well as several other benefits.
· Delivery of high quality of patient care through nursing education, nursing research and innovations in nursing practice.
· Strong Unit Based Council (UBC).
· A supportive, team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth.
· Explore our Texas Health careers site for info like Benefits, Job Listings by Category, recent Awards we’ve won and more.
Do you still have questions or concerns? Feel free to email your questions to recruitment@texashealth.org.
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Texas Health Hospital Rockwall is proud to serve the growing areas of Rockwall County, Kaufman County, Hunt County, eastern Dallas County, southern Collin County and outlying areas. Our commitment is to provide not only safe, high quality care but to combine that with compassion, understanding and personal attention. This commitment has garnered us many local and national awards, including recognition as a CMS 5 Star hospital awarded to just 10% of those hospital surveyed nationally!
Located on 33 acres in Rockwall just south of interstate 30, Texas Health Rockwall offers 60 inpatient beds for acute medical and surgical needs. The hospital continues to grow and visiting campus today you will find a Women's Imaging and Breast Center, a bariatric clinic, an ambulatory surgery center and a variety of physician practices all dedicated to our evolving community health needs. You will see that our long awaited expansion is well underway! This expansion, focused on a healthy future in this high growth area of North Texas, will double the size of our hospital adding more patient beds, a Level 2 NICU, Cardiac Cath Lab and expanding other departments including Labor & Delivery, OR and the emergency room.
What makes us different? Simply put, it is how we approach caring for you. From the focus on safety to the personal attention we provide, our patients should feel right at home at Texas Health Rockwall. As Cindy Perrin, hospital president says, "The difference is found in the heart of our facility – our staff and physicians - and in the way we love, respect and care about our community and each other. We treat our hospital like our home, treat each other like family, and treat our patients like neighbors. It's just who we are!
Texas Health Hospital Rockwall is a joint venture owned by Texas Health Resources and physicians dedicated to the community and meets the definition under federal law of physician-owned hospital.
