At Kaiser Permanente Northern California, you'll join a team of health advocates who share your passion for helping people. From our financial professionals and IT team members to our RNs and physicians on the front line of care-we work together to help our members achieve their best level of wellness. And you'll be inspired to do the same. Whether you dream of sailing the bay, hitting the slopes in the Sierras, hiking Yosemite, attending the opera, or strolling the vineyards, you'll discover the cultural and recreational diversity that makes Northern California one of the most desirable places in the world to live and work. Northern California's largest health plan, Kaiser Permanente provides you with the resources, scope, and opportunity you need to realize your goals. Come see for yourself.

This position is to serve as a member of a multidisciplinary Primary Care Team in a clinical setting providing group and one-to-one counseling and education, in conjunction with the facility Health Education Department.

Essential Functions:
- Assesses patient's educational needs on an individual and/or group basis in consultation with members of the PCT and to apply this assessment to designing educational interventions
- Conducts brief disease management, lifestyle and health risk counseling with patients and family members one-to one
- Promotes prevention and self-care strategies
- Coordinates, facilitates, and evaluates group visits for disease management and prevention and self-care education
- Identifies health education needs of the (PCT) Primary Care Team and provides consultation to team members on education and behavior change skills and strategies
- Selects and recommends appropriate educational materials in conjunction with the Facility Health Education Department
- Provides linkage to and from the Facility Health Education Department
- Arranges referrals to appropriate Kaiser Permanente and Community services
- Provides and promotes culturally appropriate interventions
- Collects, prepares reports, and documentation as needed for planning and quality assurance
- This job has no supervisory responsibilities

Basic Qualifications:
- A minimum of two (2) five (5) years experience in counseling or health education, preferably in a clinical setting
- Master's degree in public health, clinical psychology/health psychology, health science, counseling, or social work OR master's degree in a health related field that is applicable to the clinical environment, (i.e., Gerontology for Geriatrics department, Childhood Development in Pediatrics)
- For specialization - content expertise or certification required
- Knowledge of behavior change, adult learning, group process theory, and application
- Knowledge of PC applications required
- Strong interpersonal and written communication skills
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment



Primary Location: California-Vallejo

Scheduled Hours (1-40): 40

Shift: Day

Working Days: Week 1: Mon, Tues, Fri: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM; Wed, Thurs: 10:30 AM - 7:00 PM Week 2: Tues, Fri, Sat: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM; Wed, Thurs: 10:30 AM - 7:00 PM This position includes a Saturday rotation

Working Hours Start: See Schedule Details

Working Hours End: See Schedule Details

Schedule: Full-time

Job Type: Standard

Employee Status: Regular

Employee Group: United Healthcare Workers - West

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Job: Education / Training

Public Department Name: Healthy Living Helpline

Travel: No

Job Eligible for Benefits: Yes

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. We are proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.