About Cerula Care
Cerula Care is the first digital health company focused on providing integrated behavioral health (BH) services to people living with cancer. More than 17M people living with cancer have behavioral health needs such as anxiety, depression, substance use disorder, and PTSD. We integrate with oncology practices and health systems through the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) to wrap our members with a behavioral health team, care programming, and outcomes analysis.
The Collaborative Care Model is an evidence-based clinical model that has been shown to successfully improve mild to moderate behavioral health needs more effectively than the current standard of care. Our care team enhances the traditional CoCM care team by adding a Health Coach (i.e., a health coach focused on holistic behavioral health), given our strong conviction in the benefit of health coaching and wellness in this population. With the right coaching program customized to our members, we will be able to improve our members' behavioral health above and beyond traditional CoCM models.
Why Choose Cerula Care
We understand choosing a place to work is a really important decision, and we want you to know that we do not take it lightly on your behalf – we welcome all your questions as you go through the decision process!
A few things to know about working at Cerula Care:
- Our culture is very collaborative, transparent, supportive, and feedback-driven. All of us (yes all of us – including and especially our co-founders) are open to receiving and giving feedback in a helpful way to ensure we each grow and learn every day and importantly are always improving for the sake of our members and each other.
- We have a big mission to accomplish and we want people who believe in that mission to join us. However, in joining our mission, we are not asking you to give up other parts of your life - we all have our lives outside work, and we absolutely respect each other's needs.
Health Coach Role:
The Health Coach is a core member of Cerula Care's collaborative care team. Cerula Care's team includes a Behavioral Health Care Manager (BHCM) who has a degree in nursing, psychology, or social work, a Consultative Psychiatrist, who has an MD, and a Health Coach. We collaborate very closely with our members' referring Oncologist who is also a part of the broader care team
Key Traits:
- Completed an accredited health and wellness coach training program (see more below), experienced in health coaching, proficient in motivational interviewing, and passionate about health coaching and the benefits of health coaching to improve behavioral health.
- Experienced and passionate about interacting with and helping members with cancer; strong ability to engage members through telehealth.
- Exceptionally organized and able to keep track of all care coordination tasks (see below)
Key Responsibilities:
- Engage in health coaching across relationships, emotional health, practical support, and physical health; specifically focus on certain areas to improve anxiety, depression, substance use disorder, and PTSD.
- Create collaborative SMART coaching goals with Cerula Care members and document progress towards these goals.
- Communicate closely with the Cerula Care behavioral health care team (BHCM and Psychiatrist) as well as with the referring specialist if needed.
- Participate in scheduled Interdisciplinary Team Meetings (IDTs) with the BHCM and Consulting Psychiatrist, conducted virtually on a weekly basis.
- Provide patient education specific to mild to moderate behavioral health issues.
- Document member progress in a HIPAA-compliant electronic medical record system and client registry provided by Cerula Care.
- Identify patients who are not improving and may need more intensive mental health care and report any concerns to the medical provider, BHCM, and the Consulting Psychiatrist.
- Report to the Coach Lead.
Educational, Certification, and Experience Requirements:
- Qualified applicants must have earned a coaching certification from the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching or the International Coaching Federation.
- Qualified applicants must have at least one year of coaching experience, using motivational interviewing, with some part of the experience directly working with people with advanced chronic conditions (e.g., Cancer coaching, Palliative Care, etc.).
- Qualified applicants do not need to be licensed mental health providers.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Qualified applicants ideally have completed at least one accredited training program and/or continuing education coaching course applicable to people with an advanced chronic illness (e.g., smoking cessation, motivational interviewing, behavior change theory, supporting clients with chronic conditions, medical coaching).
Location Requirements:
- The health coach position is virtual only.
- Due to California regulations, we cannot accept contract positions from California at this time.
Time Commitment, Salary, Start Date:
- Part-time, hourly requirement (1099 contractor position) depending on caseload.
- Month 1-2: 10-20 hours/week
- Month 3+: 30-40 hours/week
- Hourly rate: mid-20s
- Start date: late August 2024