Tobacco Cessation Health Coach; Remote - Hawaii; Part-Time Job Ewa Beach Hawaii USA,Healthcare

Position: Tobacco Cessation Health Coach (Remote - Hawaii) - Part-Time

Tobacco Cessation Health Coach

National Jewish Health is seeking a part-time Tobacco Cessation Health Coach to provide assessment, education, and behavioral support to individuals working to quit tobacco. This role engages participants through phone and digital coaching, using motivational interviewing techniques to guide individuals in setting goals, making quit attempts, and maintaining long-term abstinence.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide coaching and education using motivational interviewing techniques to support tobacco cessation
Conduct intake assessments, verify eligibility, and document participant information in compliance with HIPAA and program guidelines
Build rapport with participants, assess readiness to change, and support behavior change through ongoing engagement
Participate in continuous training and apply feedback to maintain quality standards and evidence-based practices
Meet call center metrics and individual performance expectations

National Jewish Health is the leading respiratory hospital in the nation, recognized for excellence in patient care, research, and education. The organization supports large-scale health initiatives that have helped over 1.5 million people successfully quit tobacco. Employees contribute to a mission-driven environment focused on improving health outcomes and expanding access to effective, evidence-based care.

Position Summary 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.

Essential Duties

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.

Other Duties

None

Competencies

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.

Supervisory or Managerial Responsibility None

Travel None

Core Values

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 your role and wear visibly.

Be in compliance with all departmental and institutional policies, the Employee Handbook, Code of Conduct and completes Net Learning by due date annually.

Promotes a workplace culture based on mutual respect and merit, where all individuals are treated fairly and provided with equal opportunity to contribute to the mission and goals of the institution.

Adheres to safe working practices and at all…