Job Details

Well-Being Specialist

Position Number: 6965524
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Position Type: Health - Healthcare Administration

Well-Being Specialist

Job Summary

The Resiliency Center is seeking a strategic consultant with a clinical background for the position of Well-being Specialist. The primary focus of this position is on Team Empowerment and organizational culture with a portion of the role entailing psychological support.

The Well-being Specialist serves as a strategic partner to departments and service lines, leveraging evidence-based methodologies to enhance occupational well-being at the individual and group level across University of Utah Health. The role focuses on identifying and mitigating the root causes of workplace burnout through group-level interventions, leadership coaching, and data-driven culture initiatives, with a secondary scope for direct clinical support.

About the Resiliency Center

Established in 2017, the Resiliency Center's mission is to cultivate wellness and professional fulfillment across University of Utah Health and main campus systems. We are a multidisciplinary team that values innovation, belonging, and the human story in healthcare.

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Responsibilities
Essential Functions:

Strategic Consultation & Team Empowerment

Team Improvement: Lead unit-level culture change initiatives using evidence-based methodologies and engagement survey data to identify and address systemic stressors.
Leadership Coaching: Serve as a strategic partner to departmental leaders, providing coaching grounded in evidence-informed leadership behaviors to foster resilient teams and reduce administrative burdens.
Group Facilitation: Facilitate participative management sessions, team-led improvement projects, and workshops to build social and structural resources for collective engagement.
Curriculum Development: Design and deliver psychoeducational trainings on occupational well-being topics, including Joy in Work, culture change, and organizational resilience.
Institutional Navigation: Effectively navigate the complex "matrix" of academic medicine and clinical operations to advocate for systemic solutions that improve professional fulfillment.
Operational Partnership: Partner with project managers to organize, market, and plan the annual Foundations of Well-being conference and the subsequent Facilitator Training course, bridging large-scale institutional learning with team-level improvement, coaching, and project implementation.

Clinical & Psychological Support

Crisis Response: Provide triage and team support following adverse clinical events or workplace tragedies.
Individual Support: Provide limited, confidential, short-term consultations using evidence-informed strategies to address occupational distress. This direct clinical intervention constitutes a small portion of the overall role.
Reflective Practice: Facilitate supportive group check-ins and debriefs for teams experiencing high-stress clinical environments.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Facilitation: Advanced skills in leading interdisciplinary and diverse teams, managing complex group discussions, and fostering psychological safety.
Systems Lens: Proven ability to navigate hierarchies and influence both formal and informal leaders to drive systemic change.
Strategic Thinking: Experience translating data into actionable, evidence-informed systemic interventions.
Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to translate well-being concepts into practical organizational strategies.
Clinical Knowledge: Foundation in evidence-based trauma-informed care and stress first aid, applied primarily to support team-level health.

Minimum Qualifications
EQUIVALENCY STATEMENT: 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience (Example: bachelor's degree = 4 years of directly related work experience).
Well-being Specialist: Requires a bachelor's (or equivalency) + 6 years or a master's (or equivalency) + 4 years of directly related work experience.

Licensure: Current license to practice in the State of Utah in one of the following four areas:

Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
Licensed Psychologist (PhD/PsyD)
Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC)
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)

Healthcare Experience: Demonstrated experience working within a large healthcare system, academic medical center, or similarly complex organization.

Preferences

Master's Degree or higher in Social Work, Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, Professional Counseling, or a related clinical field.
4+ years of experience in group culture change, organizational development, or project management in a healthcare setting.
Demonstrated knowledge of human factors engineering, positive psychology, and quality improvement methodologies.
Experience with qualitative research or program evaluation using implementation science to ensure interventions are evidence-based.

Special Instructions

Requisition Number: PRN44369B
Full Time or Part Time? Full Time
Work Schedule Summary: Monday - Friday | 8:00am - 5:00pm
Department: 01620 - Chief Wellness Office
Location: Campus
Pay Rate Range: 75,000-90,000
Close Date: 3/13/2026
Open Until Filled:

To apply, visit https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/197094