Physician Peer Coaching offers a collaborative partnership between a qualified physician coach and their physician client, focused on creatively moving forward toward goals and strengthening personal and professional well being. Through Physician Peer Coaching physicians have the opportunity to talk with someone who understands and has personal experience with the unique challenges of the medical profession.
Our physician peer coaches—most of whom are also certified professional coaches—come from a variety of specialty areas and share a common passion for assisting their colleagues in strengthening their work and life satisfaction.
Our peer coaches will work with physicians to address goals, performance or general issues in their life or profession, including:
Our WorkLife Concierge is an all-purpose, virtual assistant offering first-class service to help maximize the limited time of physicians and their families. WorkLife Concierge representatives are available anytime, day or night, and can assist with a variety of every day and special occasion tasks, including:
In-the-moment behavioral health support, with a master’s or doctorate level counselor, is available 24/7 to address concerns or immediate needs when they occur.
Counseling is available in either face-to-face or virtual sessions. Counseling involves analyzing, addressing and resolving problems that impact clients emotionally, or are impairing their ability to function well. It provides professional guidance to the client, often spending time exploring the client’s past and exploring emotional turmoil, mental health issues or substance abuse concerns, and looking for links and solutions to issues. Counselors create safe and supportive spaces so that clients explore questions like, ‘who am I,’ 'how do I feel' and ‘how do I cope with this.’ Counselors help identify problems and act as a solid support system to assist clients in gaining strength.
Counseling can help with many concerns, including:
Coaching in the areas of career decisions, skill building, goal setting and achievement is available to individuals and their family members.
Objectives could include:
The VITAL WorkLife App is designed to help physicians improve their personal and professional lives and to easily access their VITAL WorkLife resources whenever—and wherever—they are needed.
The VITAL WorkLife App offers innovative, effective ways to help individuals face their unique well being challenges.
The VITAL WorkLife App is available on the App Store and Google Play.
The Well Being Advocate Program offers support in identifying and training internal advocates to promote a culture of well being and to support program engagement with VITAL WorkLife Well Being Resources.
Well Being Advocates are the inspirational voice within the organization regarding the value of well being, along with the opportunities and resources available to establish and maintain well being. They voluntarily take a strong interest in adoption, implementation and success of Physician Well Being Resources in their organization.
Well Being Advocates work one-on-one with a coach and follow an established curriculum to optimize onboarding.
If you are a Well Being Advocate, access your Advocate Program Resources here.
If you need your password, contact us at 877.731.3949.
VITAL WorkLife offers unlimited, free and confidential phone consultations with one of our financial counselors to help identify possible causes and solutions to financial problems and discuss many options regarding how to best address financial questions and concerns or manage debt. Areas where we can help include:
Legal Advice: Free advice over the phone, generally within one business day.
Local Referral: In-person referrals available to those who may need to retain an attorney. One free half-hour consultation with a local lawyer is provided and a 25% discount off hourly fees may apply if additional assistance is needed.
VITAL WorkLife offers access to the expert counsel of an attorney to address legal questions or concerns, such as:
Healthcare and physician-specific insights, by well being experts, on a wide range of topics are available on our blog.
Healthcare Leaders need a wide variety of skills to support clinicians and encourage meaningful engagement in their work and life well being.
VITAL WorkLife’s qualified and experienced leadership and physician consultants support leaders in all roles by offering Leadership Consultations and Coaching to help them address a particular issue or challenge and/or to assist them in managing a disruptive or otherwise-stressed physician and the care team.
The objective is for the leader to come away with a resolution specific to their situation related to managing or supporting a troubled physician, the care team and workgroup and/or accessing relevant areas of their solution.
Our solutions have been tested and improved over time and we have leveraged our expertise to develop a proven process. We apply our proven process to help our clients from discovery through implementation and engagement, using ongoing monitoring and measurement to evaluate and make adjustments to meet program objectives. This includes:
We strive to continually improve our processes and solutions to be the trusted partner clients can count on to support well being for individuals and their organizations.