Workforce Wellness Program Intern

ONLY RESUMES EMAILED TO ELMWELLNESS@NYCHHC.ORG WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR THE POSITION 

Position: Workforce Wellness Program Intern - Fall 2025 Graduate Students for NYC Health+ Hospitals/ Elmhurst

Program description: NYC Health+ Hospitals/ Elmhurst is the second oldest municipal hospital in NYC serving the most diverse community in the world. Ranked by US News & World Report as a High Performing Hospital in the areas of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Heart failure, Kidney failure, Orthopedics, Pneumonia, and Heart Attack. The Workforce Wellness Program at NYC Health+ Hospitals/ Elmhurst aims to support staff wellbeing across 8 domains - Emotional, Environmental, Financial, Intellectual, Occupational, Physical, Social, and Spiritual. It serves as a resource for staff during times of crisis and the Workforce Wellness team work hard to partner with frontline staff to identify and conduct performance improvement initiatives and other opportunities to improve staff and patient experience. The flagship program is Helping Healers Heal, a peer to peer staff support program created to address the emotional and psychological needs of hospital staff, including but not limited to, acute reactions to unanticipated and adverse work-related events, reactions to stress, secondary, vicarious, and complex traumatization, as well as compassion fatigue and burnout. 

Fieldwork Position Overview: 

This role will support the Chief Wellness Officer and Director of Workforce Wellness of NYC Health+ Hospitals/ Elmhurst and help ensure that the team meets greater program goals and deliverables in a timely and effective manner. The position’s responsibilities encompass supporting the initiatives of the Wellness Program. 

This is an in-person position, from September- December 2025 during the hours of Monday-Friday 9am- 5pm. The position will conclude at the close of your school’s fall semester. The intern position will receive a $25 per hour stipend with a max of 21 hours per week.   

Workforce Wellness Program Inter Fieldwork Responsibilities: 

• Management of the staff Wellness Center, participation in wellness events, and rounding.
• Assist with data collection to identify high yield areas for new initiatives.
• Assist with data collection and analysis of overall staff wellbeing
• Conduct performance improvement projects.
• Research involvement and collection of data.
• Assist in the coordination of wellness events and programing.
• Facilitate a wellness event in accordance to the guidelines of the eight dimensions of wellness.

Potential area of specific project involvement available to Workforce Wellness Program Interns:

• Creation and oversight of conduction and analysis of hospital-wide wellbeing assessment

Qualifications: 

• Master’s student in good academic standing. With a specific focus on those in programs for psychology, sociology, counseling, social work, and other relevant areas. Please note: that this position does not provide clinical hours. 
• Interest in healthcare and willingness to learn.
• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to engage with others. 
• Proficiency in word, excel and survey monkey. 

Applicants must have authorization to work in the U.S.A. without the need for employee sponsorship, either currently or in the future. 

To apply, please email your resume to ELMWellness@nychhc.org (Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.)