MUSCP - Wellness Navigator- Modern Minds - Charleston

Job Description Summary

Hours per week: 40 hours per week

Scheduled Work Hours/Shift: 40 hours per week; 1 evening per week until 8pm; 1-2 Saturdays per month

Pay Basis/FLSA:  Salaried/Exempt

Job Summary/Purpose: 

Modern Minds is seeking a Wellness Navigator to join our multidisciplinary team and become an integral member of our mind-first wellness clinic. Our team is dynamic, highly collaborative, forward thinking, and fully committed to promoting and sustaining whole-person wellbeing.



Modern Minds Wellness Navigators work primarily in a coaching capacity to provide guidance to clients as they develop and integrate new wellness practices into their life. Wellness Navigators work primarily with clients who are engaged in Modern Minds’ Immersion Program (16 week therapy program) and as such, work hand in hand with clients’ therapists. Clients are typically seen in brief (20-30 minute) meetings that occur directly before or after their therapy sessions. Wellness Navigators help clients accelerate and sustain improvements in their emotional health by focusing on shifts to help strengthen the client’s wellness foundation.



The ideal Wellness Navigator candidate has 3-5 years experience helping individuals and/or groups to establish healthy, holistic lifestyle habits spanning the areas of emotional, mental, physical and spiritual health. Areas may include, but not be limited to: fitness, nutrition, mental wellbeing, mobility, sleep, social connectedness, stress management and more.



Modern Minds Wellness Navigators must be ready to partner with licensed therapists to deliver holistic, mind-body wellness programming and solutions together.  For this reason, a certification in integrative health and nutrition or health, lifestyle and/or wellness coaching is strongly preferred.  Formerly licensed social workers as well as certified yoga instructors, personal trainers, dieticians and/or those that hold a combination of certifications in wellness-related modalities, are also encouraged to apply. 



This position will receive a competitive salary commensurate with experience. This is a full time, on-site position for which candidates must have the ability to maintain flexible hours regularly including evenings and weekends to accommodate working professional clients.

Entity

MUSC Health Partners (MHP)

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type​

Regular

Cost Center

CC000086 CFC FUND PSA Modern Minds CC

Pay Rate Type

Hourly

Pay Grade

Health-26

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Work Shift

Job Description

Minimum Training and Education:

• Prior experience in wellness (e.g., yoga instructing, executive/life/health coaching, ICF Certification, exercise science, personal or group fitness instruction).
• Ability to maintain the highest standards of confidentiality

Preferred Experience:

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in social work, counseling, or other wellness related modality
• Prior experience working within a mental health and wellness team
• Experience with an electronic medical record system, mental health and wellness-based apps and programs, and other technology in the mental health and wellness arena 

Degree of Supervision: Limited supervision but operates within a clinical team, which includes supervision by a clinical director (MD or PhD).

Job Duties and Responsibilities:  

• Effectively engage clients in both live and virtual environments
• Must possess warmth, friendliness, compassion, and be personable
• Exercise good judgment and discretion
• Demonstrate a client-first approach in which every plan is catered to the needs of the individual within a team-first environment
• Work with clients to assess baseline wellness and develop individualized wellness plans to identify small steps towards goals
• Determine and provide relevant community and/or health care resources that support clients in their wellness goals
• Facilitate utilization of wellness events and classes in community and those organized by Modern Minds
• Attend clinical team meetings and supervision, didactic training in order to best integrate and coordinate care across providers. 
• Coordinate with the clients’ therapists a wellness plan that enhances treatment goals
• Must be comfortable using technology and be able to complete timely documentation in an electronic medical record system
• Other duties as assigned

Physical Requirements: Continuous requirements are to perform job functions while standing, walking and sitting. Ability to bend at the waist, kneel, climb stairs, reach in all directions, fully use both hands and legs, possess good finger dexterity, perform repetitive motions with hands/wrists/elbows and shoulders, reach in all directions. Ability to be qualified physically for respirator use, initially and as required.  Maintain 20/40 vision corrected, see and recognize objects close at hand and at a distance, work in a latex safe environment and work indoors.  Frequently lift, lower, push and pull and/or carry objects weighing 50 lbs (+/-) unassisted, exert up to 50 lbs of force, lift from 36” to overhead 25 lbs.   

About Modern Minds

Based in Charleston, SC, Modern Minds is a 501c3 non-profit mental health and wellbeing organization focused on helping individuals build skillsets that promote and sustain whole-person wellbeing.

Additional Job Description

Education: Bachelors Degree or equivalent Work Experience: 5 years for support or 0-2 years for professional State licensure and/or professional certification requirement/s dependent on position.

If you like working with energetic enthusiastic individuals, you will enjoy your career with us!

The Medical University of South Carolina is an Equal Opportunity Employer. MUSC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, age, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, family or parental status, or any other status protected by state laws and/or federal regulations. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment based upon applicable qualifications, merit and business need.

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