Wellness Counselor

As a Wellness Counselor you will work closely with Cognizant’s Global Wellness team to implement evidence-based programming designed to support associate's mental health and wellbeing. This role will function to ensure personnel safety/psychological wellbeing is considered the highest priority. As a Counselor you will be responsible for determining the type, nature and availability and schedule of wellness activities and handling all Personnel concerns related to such.

As Wellness Counselor will help associates improve their work-life balance, uncover and overcome limiting beliefs and patterns, improve the health of their business relationships, and much more. You will have the knowledge and skills needed to help organizations implement programs that make life-changing improvements to enhance the growth of the associates and sustenance of the business.

This is a full-time office based role.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Prepares and executes at a minimum monthly group counseling sessions and individual coaching sessions.
• Provides crisis intervention, crisis assessment, and consults with external EAP provider when needed.
• Conducts trainings, screenings, surveys and health-risk assessments as needed.
• Engages in staff and leadership meetings, case management, and consults with program manager as needed.
• Works collaboratively with internal and external colleagues as part of a multi-disciplinary mental health team.
• Prepares and maintains reports that are necessary to carry out the functions of operations.
• Tracks the administration and completion of Performance Evaluations for the assigned Engagements’ Performance Management Program as necessary.
• Conducts assessments of an organization’s current health status to identify any potential risks to employees.
• Leads efforts to ensure associates develop support in the areas of physical, emotional and mental wellbeing.

What we are looking for:

• 2 or more years of experience in employee wellbeing, public health education, health + wellness benefits or related field.
• Must be certified or licensed with OPP (Ordem dos Psicólogos de Portugal) to provide individual and group counseling sessions.
• Experience in crisis management program planning, and prevention.
• Experience leading and facilitating wellness classes or groups.
• Effective oral and written communication skills and Proficiency in English language (additional languages are a plus).
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Able to exhibit a high level of confidentiality.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Must be able to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner.
• Must be able to gather and analyze information skillfully.
• Ability to work in fast and evolving workflows with eye for detail and under pressure.

Why Cognizant:

• Pleasant and inspiring working atmosphere with a multicultural environment.
• Opportunity to be part of a rapidly expanding global organization with irreproachable reputation.
• Professional development and clear career path with training & development opportunities.
• Private health insurance and life insurance.
• Child benefits such as Nursery Voucher and Student Voucher.
• Doctor on site for 2 hours once a week.
• Employee Assistant Program (EAP) to promote wellbeing of employee’s (Health and well-being, Consumption and Real Estate, Financial Consulting, Documentation/“Dia Platino” service).
• In Cognizant offices you have access to fresh fruit, water, coffee, and tea daily.
• Various corporate discounts available through partnership between Cognizant and other partners such as gyms, Pestana Hotels, Carnext, Huawei, Apple, MEO, and others.

De Cognizant Community
We zijn een team dat elkaar helpt om doelen te bereiken op het hoogste niveau. Zonder ons team zouden we niet in staat zijn om de huidige energieke, samenwerkende en inclusieve werkomgeving te behouden. Een omgeving gericht om iedereen te laten slagen. 

• Cognizant is een globale community van 300.000+ collega’s
• We dromen niet alleen van een betere wereld, wij helpen het te maken
• We zorgen voor onze mensen, de klanten, het bedrijf, de community en het klimaat door te doen wat goed is
• We zetten in op een innovatieve omgeving waar je zelf kan bouwen aan een carriere pad dat bij jou past. 

Over ons
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is een bouwer van AI-oplossingen en een leverancier van technologiediensten. Wij slaan de brug tussen AI-investeringen en ondernemingswaarde door het bouwen van full-stack AI-oplossingen voor onze klanten. Onze diepgaande kennis van sectoren, processen en engineering stelt ons in staat om de unieke context van een organisatie te verankeren in technologische systemen. Deze systemen versterken het menselijk potentieel, realiseren tastbaar rendement en geven wereldwijde ondernemingen een voorsprong in een snel veranderende wereld. Ontdek hoe op www.cognizant.com of @cognizant.

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