Tobacco Cessation Health Coach

• Facility National Jewish Health - Galleria Office Towers
• Department Quitlogix
• Schedule - Shift - Hours Full Time - Variable Shift

Remote positions on our team are currently available for candidates located in AZ, CA, CO, FL, HI, IL, MN, NY, OK, TX, VA and WI.

National Jewish Health is seeking Tobacco Cessation Health Coaches to join our team. We have a passion for helping people be successful in their journey to quit tobacco. Our tobacco cessation program is based on proven strategies that have helped more than 1.5 million people nationwide quit tobacco.

Our professional Tobacco Cessation Health Coaches make a positive impact on people’s lives and are driven to make a difference in their community. Our team engages with participants through both phone and digital coaching sessions.

Our team enjoys fully remote work and, as a 7-day/week call center, we offer a wide variety of scheduling options.

The Tobacco Cessation Health Coach provides assessment, counseling, education and behavioral intervention to tobacco users. This position directly assists tobacco users by using motivational interviewing techniques in deciding whether to make a quit attempt, obtaining and using cessation medicine and staying abstinent from tobacco. Counseling is conducted over the phone and/or through the internet with participants.

• Educates and coaches a diverse population of participants in quitting tobacco by following motivational interviewing techniques. Explains Health Initiatives programs to participants, builds rapport, and engages callers following guidelines, protocols and scripting.
• Completes an intake questionnaire with participants to verify program eligibility. Documents participant data in compliance with HIPAA requirements, departmental standards and specific client guidelines.
• Maintains friendly, confident, open, and effective communication with participants to identify program eligibility and inspire continued participation. Assists participants to help determine participant’s goals, readiness to change, and supports the behavior change.
• Engages in a process of continuous training, learning, and professional growth including QA scores and feedback to ensure delivery of the latest evidence-based practices, content knowledge and skills.
• Maintains call center metrics and individual performance standards.

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• Accountability:
  Accepts full responsibility for self and contribution as a team member; displays honesty and truthfulness; confronts problems quickly; displays a strong commitment to organizational success and inspires others to commit to goals; demonstrates a commitment to National Jewish Health.
• Attention to Detail:
  Accomplishing tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks; being watchful over a period of time. Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.
• Customer Focus:
  Ensuring that the customer perspective is a driving force behind business decisions and activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers’ and own organization’s needs.
• Decision Making:
  Identifying and understanding issues, problems, and opportunities; comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions; using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences.
• Informing and Communicating:
  Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.

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• Be available to work as scheduled and report to work on time.
• Be willing to accept supervision and work well with others.
• Be well groomed, appropriately for…