Wellness Coordinator

Job Overview: The Wellness Coordinator promotes healthy lifestyles for SMSC Community members, employees, and their families, assists with accessing appropriate health services, provide health and wellness education opportunities, and encourage cost-effective use of health resources. Ultimately, the Wellness Coordinator strives to improve the health and well-being of SMSC Community members, employees, and their families and at the same time reduce costs associated with poor health. Promotes wellness events and participates in various fitness training programs in support of those events. Complies with HIPAA rules and maintains all patient information confidentially and securely.

Create Your Path: The Work You’ll Do:

• Plans, designs, and delivers a wide range of health and wellness programs for SMSC Community members, employees, and their families.
• Administer health screenings for employees as part of a health risk assessment to include biometric testing, health questionnaire, and recommendations to reduce or eliminate health risks.
• Provides health education opportunities for staff on various wellness and health-related topics as requested.
• Designs and develops wellness and health education materials to include but not limited to booklets, brochures, displays, posters, newsletters, and calendars.
• Periodically evaluates the Wellness Plan to assess participation levels, participant satisfaction, changes in behavior and health indicators, and overall effectiveness of the Wellness Plan.
• Promotes wellness events and participates in various fitness training programs in support of those events.
  
  
  

Job Requirements:

• Successful completion of an associate or bachelor’s degree in nursing from an accredited college or university.
• Must be currently licensed as a Registered Nurse by and in good standing with the Minnesota Board of Nursing. Or, if not trained and licensed as a Registered Nurse, must meet the following educational
  
  
  

requirement:

• Successful completion of an Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education, Fitness, Health and
  
  
  

Wellness or a closely related discipline from an accredited college or university.

Additional requirements include:

• Must have at least two years of health promotion, wellness, or closely related work experience.
• Good computer skills to include MS Word, Excel, and Outlook, as well as other health care or business
  
  
  

related software as needed.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  
  
  

Outstanding Benefits & Awesome Perks: Enjoy competitive weekly pay, outstanding benefits and advancement opportunities. Generous benefits include medical, dental, life and disability insurance, onsite medical clinics and pharmacy, 401(k) retirement plan, paid time off, wellness programs and more. Plus, take advantage of perks like discounts on childcare, fuel, bus passes and fitness membership, free uniforms, free uniform cleaning and tuition reimbursement.

Who We Are: The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community contributes both time and financial resources across the region, state, and country. The SMSC has donated more than $400 million to organizations and causes, provided $500 million in economic development loans to other tribes, and contributed millions more to support regional governments and infrastructure. The SMSC's Native Green initiative annually diverts hundreds of tons of waste from landfills, has implemented compostable containers throughout our properties, and restored hundreds of acres of prairie land. Team members are eligible to participate in SMSC Gives, a community outreach initiative that organizes various opportunities in the local community. To empower its team members to take part in the Dakota tradition of giving, the SMSC provides paid hours to team members to volunteer at events. Learn more at shakopeedakota.org