Community Health Care Coach

Job Description

Job Description

Community Health Care Coach

At Elder Options, our mission is our passionate purpose. We are seeking people like you who want to join our caring, credible and committed family of dedicated professionals and who want to support our aging and disabled communities with all the resources they need to stay happy, healthy and safe.

Salary: $39,000

Job Overview: Elder Options is seeking a Community Health Care Coach, to provide community health education, follow up support and coaching to patients.

Key Responsibilities: Services include Care Transition services supporting hospital to home transitions and/or other community-based health and wellness services. The interventions are geared toward patient self-management of chronic diseases via teaching/modeling, self-advocacy, and education with the purpose of reducing re-hospitalizations, providing individualized assessments, care planning, referrals and supports to adults with health and wellbeing goals to support their independence in the community. Home visits are required and remote work is limited.

Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) from four-year college or university or equivalent experience in providing human services.

Required Skills and Abilities: Successful completion in the Take Charge Care Transition Model is required for maintaining position.

Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb, or balance; and stoop, kneel or crouch. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.

Preferred Qualifications: Experience working with older and/or disabled adults and Spanish-speaking preferred.

DISCLAIMER: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.

Why Join the Elder Options Team?

• We are committed and caring. All our team is dedicated to supporting the aging and disabled living in our communities, regardless of need or ability to pay.
• We are trusted. We have a long history of supporting and advocating for elders, and are the one stop shop, coordinating all elder care resources in the communities we serve.
• We support you. We recognize as a caring professional, you need care and support too. We promote work life balance, offer flexible, remote work options, wellness education and generous PTO allotments.
• We live our values. Our benefits are exceptional. Because we know the importance of seniors and their retirement income, we provide contributions to your retirement equal to more than 10% of your pay, even if you don’t pay in. We offer several health insurance options at very low cost with great coverage. Dental, Vision, Long Term Disability Insurance and Life Insurance are free too.
• If you join us, you will want to stay with us. 53% of our staff have stayed with us for more than 5 years. Why do they stay? Our team says they stay because of the leadership, support, culture and mission.

ADA/EOE. Level 2 background screening and driver record check required.

Career Center Link - External Applicants:

To apply click below, and select the Community Health Care Coach position: https://workforcenow.adp.com/jobs/apply/posting.html?client=AgingInc&cc…

If you have questions, or need to apply using an alternate method, contact Kathy Dorminey at (352) 692-5214. Elder Options, Inc. is located at 100 SW 75th Street, Suite 301, Gainesville, FL 32607.

Closing date: 11/24/2025